U.k. Thnx!!!

Hey Hey Hey it's me! So as you have seen from my country cool blog I will make an awesome thanks to any foreign country who reads my blog. I see the U.K. has made some look sees on my blog. You know what time it is: THANK YOU TIME!!!
  
 The Mom wants me to write something gluten free about the U.K. Well after WWI in the treaty of Versilles Germany lost some resources in Africa which included some wheat and thanks to the shortage scientists figuerd out a little more about Gluten free-ness. This was found by US, KIDS by getting better(no i just ment a scientist not an actual kid found it but we did help).



                                    Okay here is some non-related awesome things about the U.K.

•  They have blessed us with U2, 1 direction, and THE BEATLES!!!  
• THE QUEEN!! God bless queen Elizabeth!!
• Tanks they invented the army tank
• they have pretty awesome accents 
• Once again 1 Direction!!
• Shakespear
• J.k. Rowling (did you know the K is fake?)
• HARRY POTTER GO GRIFINDOR!!!
• Prince Charles Cocker spaniel
• Henry Hudson and Captain Cook( found Australia)
• Big Ben&The London Eye

Taking Home Ec When You Have Celiac

This Mom again... I just wanted to share a story with a fantastic ending.

This semester The Kid was lucky enough to get Home Ec as an elective. Although we were really happy about it, the closer it came to cooking the more anxiety we had. Her teachers were really great, explaining we would have the opportunity to review the ingredients (and The Kid has an App for that!) But when it came time to start a zillion questions started popping in my head.

Like:

• No wooden spoons
• Are they using a cutting board
• Are the plastic spoons all chewed up after years of kids using them, same for measuring cups
• Are the tools washed by sponge or dishwasher
• The Kid should not be in the room when using flour
• What about the classes before 

From this we came to the agreement The Family would provide all tools, incl. sponge and towel. (We offered!) It was the best for all of us, and now another Celiac student can use them next semester. We also meet with the teachers, walking through the kitchen and all the touch-points.  I answered questions, explained alternatives, and I feel we ALL came away better informed. The flour was my biggest fear. So what we decided was that we would supply the GF flour, and The Kid would cook on the Demonstration Day (the teacher usually does), all the students sample the GF food. Then, the next day or 2 when the flour was out The Kid would go to the library or the back room.

In a school of 1500 and only 2 known cases, lets face it it is uncommon. Which is why, to my surprise the teachers asked me to come in and talk about allergies and cross-contamination. So I did!

Trying to take the crazy disbelief that something you can't see can still hurt someone else, we did an experiment.  (I LOVE this one) Take un-sugared Kool-Aid. Sprinkle a little on your hands, gentlely rub, dust off with a paper towel. It looks like there is nothing there, but when you spritz with water the Kool-Aid magically appears!

This brought a whole bunch of questions and a great discussion (back around to Celiac)

Long story short ~ The Class made chocolate Chip Cookies, Rice Krispy Treats, and a Fruit Pizza.  My Kid NEVER GOT SICK and the other students all agreed the Gluten Free food was better. (BTW, we used Better Batter for the cookies, and sugar cookie pizza)

Please please please, if you or your child ever get(s) Home Ec, just go talk to the teachers and administration to see if this is possible in your school.

Gluten Attack

Gluten Attack

As soon as The Kid realized her mistake I received a call and brought over an Enzymedica GlutenEase for gluten digestion. It doesn't get rid of any of the symptoms but does a good job at lessening them. Her symptoms occur close to 24 hours later, so we are able to prepare her body before the pain comes. Thanks to this preparation, she was able to stick it out at school on Friday, taking tests. (Thank Goodness!) ...Here it is day 2 and she is totally fine. At this point we are just giving her ginger to help with healing.

We also take GlutenEase while dinning out as a "Just-In-Caser" to ward off cross contamination.

From now on the school clinic will have a small bottle!  

~ The Mom

Country Cool

   OMG!!!!
     

   New rule for GUGF (growing up gluten free). For every new country who looks at this blog in general gets a  blog thanking them for their internetness so than you Germany, Russia, Canada and sometime it could be another place other than the U.S.(Where I live).




                                              Good Luck,
                                        The Kid

BIG PROBLEM!!!

Hello webbis,
                Today at lunch I had a big problem!!! If you go to a school that sells BLUE BELL ICE CREAM. I have some news for you! I had a chocolate BLUE BELL ICE CREAM and I looked at the ingredients GLUTEN ALERT IT HAD WHEAT!!!(Flour) So this was news to me and I will probably be sick tomorrow. So be careful you webbi you!!!
           





                         C U lats,
                               The KID

Recipe time on Growing up gluten free

Hey I have read a lot of food blogs so I decided to make my own. Now here is one of my favorite I created it myself it's gone in  matter of seconds with kids begging for another.

So here is my recipe for fudge:

       Things you need: One bowl, one bag of mini marshmallows or two jumbo, and a bag of chocolate chips (I prefer Ghirardelli's)

Directions: First take your bowl and pour 1 cup of chocolate and 1 cup of marshmallows  then put them in the microwave for ten seconds open then put it in for ten more. Grease a pan while you microwave then twirl the fudge and put in pan, repeat until pan is full. Put in fridge for an hour then it's ready to eat.


                                      Enjoy,
                                  The Kid

Yay thanks to Germany!!

Hey it's the kid and I'm super excited because I finally got a page view from another country!! Yes I know it's super cool right? So the country of my first international page view is ........ Germany!!!! now in honor of this achievement I will now write a brief gluten free history of Germany.

 
       Before WW2 many people in Germany had been sick all of their lives. But the once world war 2 started there was  shortage of bread in Germany. Then instead of being sick the people in Germany were fine and not sick to their stomachs. There you have it one of the first finding of gluten intolerences in Germany. :D





                                      The Kid



                 P.S. Next time the little sister might come and blog about living with a mom and a older sister being gluten free.