Whew!

i just realized it's been almost 20 days since i blogged! LOL! well, i had a med change and whew i went a bit crazy! (just ask the MR.!) i'm on better meds now so it's much better :) and food is becoming more and more of a success around here! the kids are enjoying the new foods, we're finding our favorites and our not so wonderfuls! :)

We have been trying some of the premixed gluten free flours (just so it's a bit easier on me) and i have found i don't like the taste of the fava bean or garbonza bean flours. But i have found a flour that's perfect for us! and i can use it anywhere i need to! :) makes me happy and we are doing great! just me and my crazy showing! i'll have to update with some more pictures soon!

Oh and thanks to my wonderful SIL, I found out that Mazzio's Italian Eatery (or pizza place) is starting to have gluten free pizzas! I'm so happy and excited! I really do hope that they do a good job! we'd love to be able to eat out at one of our favorite places to eat! :) woot! Here's me hoping i'll get a break from cooking some night soon! :)

more success! It's always nice!

So tonight for dinner I made Chili Cheese Fries. Not that healthy but it was OSU in the Fiesta Bowl so we wanted some football food! LOL! Yeah we're football nuts! :) It was GREAT! the kids kept coming back for more and more fries! LOL! Till we ran out! But that's good, b/c they haven't wanted to eat a whole lot with this change! Then once they went to bed, I made MR. some Gluten Free Rice Krispie Treats! :) hehe! sooo...here you go! :)

Chili:

I use the Shelby Chili mix. It's in a box and REALLY easy! We've used it for years and were very happy to find that it was still available to us! :) They use Masa Flour, which is corn based!

It calls for 2 lbs of ground beef, but I use 1 lb ground turkey, 1 lb pork sasage (sometimes I use turkey). brown the meat, add the seasoning packets like you want to (I use the big packet, salt packet, and cayenne pepper packet). 1 8oz can of tomato sauce (I've used tomato paste and it's good too, just thicker) (oh i use salt free so I can control the salt content). mix bring to a boil. lower heat. simmer for 15 minutes! (don't worry all the instructions are on the back of the box of seasoning!) :)

Potatos:

I use just whatever potato on sale. Wash, cut into strips, and fry it up! I used my fry daddy with canola oil! When you pull them out  let them drain a bit and season them...

Plate it up!  Fries, Chili, Cheese. That's it for me! The Boy doesn't like chili so he gets just cheese! Pinkie and JJ get just a smiggen of chili and cheese. Mr likes bacon and sour cream.

Rice Krispies...i followed the directions on the box....except...i used marshmallow creme instead of marshmallows! (haha!)

So today is great! :)

and we're up?

I think I connected this to my Google+ account. At least I hope I did! :) We're testing it now! :)

Just a big smile!

So a sweet wonderful friend of mine sent me one of those cookbooks you find at the checkout counter for gluten free cooking. I finally broke it out today and made the waffles in it. WOW they were so good! :) Mr. said he was worried when he smelled them cooking as they just didn't smell right. BUT when he ate them they MAY have been better than regular waffles! :) makes me happy! everyone went back for more! next time I'll have to double or triple the recipe!  and freeze some for the kids for school morning breakfasts! This next week as the kids go back to school and Mr goes back to work, we'll be sticking with the diet and also the girls will be taking their lunches. We're going to test them on the gluten free and see if there is a change in them. As Pinkie was complaining about tummy pain today, but with all the possible places she could have gotten stuff we don't know that that's her issue. We'll just have to see! and hope all goes well! :)

SIGH! yeah it's a big sigh

So I havn't been really strict with the kids staying on the gluten free diet. I worry that each of them have Celiac like Mr., but really didn't want to limit them. Mr. has been off work (on vacation) since right before Christmas. So we've been mostly gluten free at home. Pinkie went to a friend's for a few hours one day and she came home and complained about her tummy hurting (about in the same spots that Mr does with he's having an attack! Sooo..i think she'll need to be tested. Previously the Boy has had issues with dairy, but with him not on the gluten free diet that seems to have disapeared. So he needs to be tested. So that's 2 of 3...might as well test JJ too!

My anxiety has been less while on the diet and I do notice it spikes when I've had gluten. So i think i'll just have us all tested. I'm fairly sure at least 2 of us have it. sigh...sooooo OK... we can do this!

And Happy New Year everyone!!! :D