My blog should be called confessions of a carb-aholic. I miss sub/hoagie rolls. I miss hamburgers on buns and up until I found Tinkyada pasta, I missed pasta. Sometimes I start to feel sorry for myself. My mom is 100% italian, need I say more? LOL. But then I found your blog and my outlook changed. Thank you for blogging. For me at least, it makes a difference.

Menu for Week of Dec 13

Well, I guess that’s why I post my menu. So others can see that a gluten-free meal can be normal, just without the gluten. It doesn’t have to be difficult, and it doesn’t have to be expensive. I find it’s easier (and cheaper) to build your meals with naturally gluten-free foods: meat, vegetables, fruit, dairy, rice, potatoes, etc.

As for the buns, I don’t usually bother. We usually just eat burgers as patties, though I sometimes buy GF buns (Kinnikinnick, Glutino or Schar) at the store. I don’t bother making buns, though there are some good recipes (like The Gluten-Free Homemaker’s) You can wrap burgers with lettuce if you want to eat with your hands, but what’s the point when you can just eat them with a fork? My daughter won’t eat the bun anyway.

We’ve tried lots of different things for pizza: made crust, bought crust mixes, bought frozen crusts, bought frozen pizzas, and tried at restaurants (Uno’s and zPizza). There are lots of options, just have to find what works for you. And as for pasta… well, my kids don’t eat it, so I don’t cook it very often. Maybe it’s because my son was so young when he was diagnosed, but neither of them will eat it. And, since it isn’t necessary to have in their diets, I don’t push it.

Like you, I do bake bread twice a week, and buy some gluten-free foods to keep in the pantry (like crackers and cereal). It seems normal to me. Do feel like your GF meals are not normal?