Gluten-free fashion
Pre-post mini confession:
...from a family-sized box.
Welp! Moving on!
So my holiday in GA is quickly coming to a close. Leaving is always bittersweet. I love being with my amazing family but I miss my dear hubs and Abilene does too. We also have a TON to do in order to move out of our house (10 days and counting) so, while leaving is sad, it's necessary. This particular departure, however, is a little more exciting because I've included my amazing sister in my packing list and I'm taking her with me to PA.
She'll have to settle for my carry-on because, seriously, my suitcase is so full right now.
This is my sister, Brittany, and her new,brick wall husband, Matt.
My sister is a lot of things: she's beautiful, she's married to a wonderful husband, she'll tell you like it is, she has a great laugh, she serves people very well, she hates chocolate (don't even try to convince her otherwise), she's such a sweet and caring Aunt to Abilene and she also has a gluten intolerance.
If Brittany has a gluten allergy, I guess that makes me once-removed gluten-free. As in, I don't have a gluten allergy but, because Britty has it, I'm more aware of it (i.e. making sure she has not-awful-tasting-things to eat while she's at my house as well as noting and passing on anything I discover that's gluten-free).
Now that she's married and shares a home with her wonderful, non-gluten-free husband, she's started to double certain things in her kitchen so that she has a gluten set and a gluten-free set. Britty loves color so here are the fun "gluten-free" kitchen utensils I got her for her birthday:
Anyway! Something Britty's also had to separate is her butter. So now she buys two.
"Why in the world would you buy two butters? Isn't butter already gluten-free?" you ask.
Yes, butter is gluten-free, but let's say you use a knife to spread butter on your non-gluten-free toast. If you stick your knife back into the butter (let's be honest, you know you go back in for more butter), that butter now has gluten-filled bread crumbs in it and is no longer gluten-free.
Gluten-free's a hard life.
No, but seriously, it is. Here's what Abilene thinks about people thinking gluten-free is easy:
And Abilene "don't take no crap from no body!"
Anyway! In order to remedy this situation. Britty has decided to have two butters. One for her. And one for her hubs. Genius!
...but, um
...how will they tell them apart?
Good question! For the answer, my mom and I headed over to my grandmother's amazing assortment of fabric remnants and decided to make her some custom butter lids to differentiate her butter from Matt's butter.
We took two butter lids (my mom uses the same butter as Britty does) and washed them. Then we cut out fabric and used a hot glue gun to adhere the fabric to the plastic lid. The fabric and the hot glue should be able to withstand all the bending that the lid will do while being snapped on and popped off the butter container just about a ba-zillion times.
Here's what my mom came up with:
And here's what I came up with:
Confused about which butter to use? Crisis averted!
So fun, right! I just might buy my own butter so I can have cute lids too.
...unless they would make me eat more butter, in which case, Brit, you can keep the lids.
Like I said earlier, Britty's coming back to PA with me to help us pack (oh thank goodness for little sisters!). I'll let you know if I have the same luck with Abilene on Southwest as I did the first time.
See you in the North!
I'm preparing for my dentist appointment this month by eating toffee covered popcorn and peanuts.
Welp! Moving on!
So my holiday in GA is quickly coming to a close. Leaving is always bittersweet. I love being with my amazing family but I miss my dear hubs and Abilene does too. We also have a TON to do in order to move out of our house (10 days and counting) so, while leaving is sad, it's necessary. This particular departure, however, is a little more exciting because I've included my amazing sister in my packing list and I'm taking her with me to PA.
She'll have to settle for my carry-on because, seriously, my suitcase is so full right now.
This is my sister, Brittany, and her new,
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| For real, how cute are they?! |
My sister is a lot of things: she's beautiful, she's married to a wonderful husband, she'll tell you like it is, she has a great laugh, she serves people very well, she hates chocolate (don't even try to convince her otherwise), she's such a sweet and caring Aunt to Abilene and she also has a gluten intolerance.
If Brittany has a gluten allergy, I guess that makes me once-removed gluten-free. As in, I don't have a gluten allergy but, because Britty has it, I'm more aware of it (i.e. making sure she has not-awful-tasting-things to eat while she's at my house as well as noting and passing on anything I discover that's gluten-free).
Now that she's married and shares a home with her wonderful, non-gluten-free husband, she's started to double certain things in her kitchen so that she has a gluten set and a gluten-free set. Britty loves color so here are the fun "gluten-free" kitchen utensils I got her for her birthday:
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| The handles have weights in them so the heads will never rest on the kitchen counter. Pretty sweet, huh? |
Anyway! Something Britty's also had to separate is her butter. So now she buys two.
"Why in the world would you buy two butters? Isn't butter already gluten-free?" you ask.
Yes, butter is gluten-free, but let's say you use a knife to spread butter on your non-gluten-free toast. If you stick your knife back into the butter (let's be honest, you know you go back in for more butter), that butter now has gluten-filled bread crumbs in it and is no longer gluten-free.
Gluten-free's a hard life.
No, but seriously, it is. Here's what Abilene thinks about people thinking gluten-free is easy:
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| Yep, that's exactly what she thinks. |
And Abilene "don't take no crap from no body!"
I have a cookie (gluten-free if need be) for anyone who can tell me what movie that's from.
Anyway! In order to remedy this situation. Britty has decided to have two butters. One for her. And one for her hubs. Genius!
...but, um
...how will they tell them apart?
Good question! For the answer, my mom and I headed over to my grandmother's amazing assortment of fabric remnants and decided to make her some custom butter lids to differentiate her butter from Matt's butter.
We took two butter lids (my mom uses the same butter as Britty does) and washed them. Then we cut out fabric and used a hot glue gun to adhere the fabric to the plastic lid. The fabric and the hot glue should be able to withstand all the bending that the lid will do while being snapped on and popped off the butter container just about a ba-zillion times.
Here's what my mom came up with:
And here's what I came up with:
Confused about which butter to use? Crisis averted!
So fun, right! I just might buy my own butter so I can have cute lids too.
...unless they would make me eat more butter, in which case, Brit, you can keep the lids.
Like I said earlier, Britty's coming back to PA with me to help us pack (oh thank goodness for little sisters!). I'll let you know if I have the same luck with Abilene on Southwest as I did the first time.
See you in the North!
Brooke-It's interesting to me that you bring this up. I was just diagnosed with Crohn's disease less than 6 months ago. I have gone through a Gluten-Free diet, and let's just say...not the easiest thing in the entire world. I definitely understand what she is going through and wish her the best!
ReplyDeleteSarah, I'm sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I hope it has been recent and not something you were dealing with since we were growing up. Brittany's didn't seem to start until high school-ish. Did the gluten-free diet help at all?
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