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So, China airlines reads my blog.

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Well, that’s what I am going to tell myself since on my flights home from Thailand I didn’t get *any* rice cakes. Not one on all three meals. On my gluNten free meals. Ah, Asia, I love you.

AND I got a piece of gluten free bread with my dinner. On one of my posts previously, someone asked how I knew the difference between regular & GF bread on a plane (from this post here)… let me tell you. If you have had gluten free bread EVER in your life – you’d know the difference with the piece they gave me. When 2 pieces weigh a lb combined, are not fluffy at all, and are packaged in plastic… you just know. When all else fails – have a gluten eating travel partner try it. If they spit it out – you’re golden. One day maybe Udi’s will be available on board but until that day… it’s not hard to tell GF bread from the gluten filled stuff.

Ok but seriously, I love Asia. I visited Hong Kong & Beijing when I was a teen and was itching to get back. Thailand… how can you even describe it? We stayed in central Thailand and I so want to go back to both the north & south – darn the vacation time required! I wasn’t entirely sure how traveling in Asia would be with my Celiac, though – both international trips I’d done since my diagnosis were in Europe where I never found someone that didn’t speak English. While the Thai diet is heavily rice centered, that darn pesky soy sauce finds it’s way in pretty often. So I printed out a travel card written in Thai from here:
http://www.celiactravel.com/cards/
More like I printed out a few dozen – 4 to a page – just in case. I smiled stupidly at every Thai waiter and handed them this card. Most of the time they took a minute to read it and then pointed at one or two items on the menu to suggest what was already gluten free – some took the cards back to the chef… and overall I had a great experience. Yes, I got sick a few times. That happens when eating out so often for me, anyway, due to the cross contamination factor. Boo – and only once did I have a mix up with my food (I’ll blog about that one in a separate post. Because you all want to hear about me getting sick in more detail, right?)

Here’s a little proof that I really did order and eat some pretty darn tasty stuff while I was there:

Chicken in a coconut curry sauce. Cost? Around $2.

Chicken in a coconut soup. Hey, I like coconut.

Thai iced coffee. Less than $1 to buy off the street vendors. Mmm I want to go back right now and buy some more Thai iced tea. So good!

Ice cream. A fully balanced meal.

And alcohol. Because that’s all that really matters on vacation. Give me some rice, ice cream, and mixed drinks and I’m a happy vacationer. In fact, for this featured meal, that’s all I had. Ha!

And ok, it might almost be embarrassing how many self portraits I take with my iphone. But, I tell myself it’s for my blog. So these photos are for you, dear readers. All 3 of you. ;)

How to make Valentine’s day dinner.

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When you are diagnosed with Celiac disease – you suddenly realize that your social life that previously was centered around food and eating out must be redefined. Oh – it’s Valentine’s day – let’s NOT eat out and pretend we did, mmkay? Because who really wants to hear “I got glutened, so instead of spending sweet romantic time with you, husband, I’ll be spending it with the bathroom instead. See ya tomorrow!”

And this year – I shared a very sweet gift with this man – I gave him the flu. Hot. So I am stuck with managing my own dinner today. And after a full day of not eating yesterday, I decided to make up for the calories by settling upon a cinnamon roll.

So, without further ado, here’s my V-day post… how to make V-day dinner:

Buy a pack of Cinnamon rolls. In this case, I went with Udi’s:

Put your cinnamon roll on a plate, and then spread the frosting all over.

Lick your fingers when your done, because you don’t want any frosting to go to waste!

Put it in the microwave for 30 seconds or so:

And then eat your sweet delicious cinnamon roll. Ok, so it looks like I’m trying to make out with it here. Can you blame me? I had to get some from somewhere today – it’s Valentine’s day!

But in other news, how cute is this shirt that husband bought me?

So I had to take a photo with the most handsome pug around. It’s Stinky. <3

And with that? Happy Valentine’s Day. From this Celiac to you. :)

Some days I hate great gluten free food.

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Yes, it exists. For a while after diagnosis I was convinced that living with gluten free food would suck. And truthfully – a lot of it does. The first loaf of bread I purchased was more like a 4″x6″ paper weight. Yuck. And then I tried bread that fell apart and became more like a pile of crumbs on my plate – no sandwiches for me! But then… then I found Kinnikinnick maple donuts. Yes, I cried when I tried them. (That’s a recurring theme, apparently I’m a crier.)

But OMG donuts? I could have DONUTS that didn’t taste like CRAP??

And then. Then I found Udi’s muffins. If you want to feel like a normal human being again, and have your faith in gluten free humanity restored, buy a Udi’s muffin. Unfortunately for my waistline, they only come in packs of 4. Which basically means, that’s like 1.75 sittings for me. Just heat them up in the microwave for a bit and voila – light and fluffy and perfectly warm muffin. My favorite is the blueberry. Yummmm.

I couldn’t wait any longer to take a better photo, so I hope this will suffice. Doesn’t this face look excited? It’s because it is. Or was. Now I’m just sad because I have no more muffins.

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So why hate amazing gluten free food? Ok, I don’t REALLY hate it. Until tomorrow when my scale reads “WTF Melissa? The number is going the wrong way!” Then I cry. And console myself with another muffin. Or a donut.