who the hell puts wheat in soy sauce?!?

I know my cabinets should be completely cleared of non-GF foods by now, but I had a bottle of soy sauce that managed to slip by, and as I was making my stir-fry for dinner after a ridiculously late-running meeting, and wait, there is wheat-gluten in my soy sauce. That makes me very unhappy.

beer, beer, BEER!

So I have spent the last week at the parental's, so I haven't been doing much, but since I have to head back to my college out in the middle of nowhere, I went shopping. And, oh was it fun. Mainly, because there was beer. Three different kinds of gluten-free beer. I couldn't believe it. It is sitting by the door because I have to take it back with me. There is the Redbridge made by anheuser-busch (it pains me to purchase their beers after spending my formative college years in milwaukee). At least it is good, right? I also bought New Grist (made in milwaukee) and Bard's Tale Golden Dragon Lager. It looks like I can throw myself a little party, yay! Too bad this stuff is too good to waste on most of my friends.

I'm also excited because I bought red quinoa. Now my friends can really pick on me for eating weird food. I should get back to packing my stuff to go back to school.

Gluten free in the corn fields.

I will start by introducing myself: I am a 22 year-old almost college graduate (at this point there are only 2 months left til graduation), and I have been gluten-free since October of this year. I used to subsist on ramen noodles, beer and Jimmy John's. My diet was restricted after I managed to contact pneumonia and mono at the same time, and while they were at it they ran almost every blood test possible, and I found out that I am allergic to gluten. (My mom had recently stopped eating gluten and soy because they mess with your thyroid, so at least I had some support).

I mourned the end of my days of beer and a steak. And then I had my mom cook for me at home. She made me enough food packed in indivudal servings for a month. I have been cooking (almost) all of my meals since then, and have had to get creative, since I was the girl who baked everyone a cake on their birthday and had holiday themed cookies every holiday.

So, basically contained in this blog will be my adventures in cooking and shopping, as can only be had by a poor, starving college student who dearly misses her ramen, but has found her beer.