Another Saturday come and gone but I didn’t get a chance to
run today. My wife needed the run more
today than I did and she went out at about 7:00 this morning, but our day was
so busy that we needed to get going after she got home so we could make it to
an Easter Egg Hunt.
We decided that today would be a little cheat day. My 8 year old has a friend that is moving to
Texas and today they are having a lot of their friends meet them at a local
pizzeria for a good by party—we decided we wanted to go but didn’t want to sit
there and just have our kids eat pizza so we checked out the menu and found out
they have a gluten free menu. It seemed
like a good day to try quite a few other items but still leave gluten out of
our diet. Especially since we have an
idea of how gluten affects us already.
Well… the Easter Egg hunt went great! All I can say is it was the best 30 second
Easter Egg Hunt ever! Although I think
the term ‘hunt’ is a little misleading since it is really not a hunt at all but
rather a mad dash to the Easter eggs and is a little reminiscent of the old
school game dodge ball where the bigger stronger kids run all over the littler
kids. My kid is small but I’m not
complaining about him getting run-over, he does seem to hold his own—especially
when in a contest such as a hunt—but he is a little sensitive about getting
enough Easter eggs which he didn’t feel like he did today.
The pizzeria was GREAT!
It was the first time since the end of last year that I’ve had anything
like pizza—and although it was gluten free it was wonderful. It took a little bit of time to make the
pizza but it was worth the wait. They
also had some gluten free pasta which was good to but I noticed something today
about the marinara sauce that I had forgot about. As soon as we put it in our mouth you could
taste the added sugar on it. My wife
told me she could taste it before I tried it but when I tried mine I was sure
that mine had more than hers did.
I had her try it and she said it had the same—“WOW” I
thought, “this is what we looked at as normal for all those years.” When I used to make marinara sauce at home we
would just by the Prego or Ragu and then add all sorts of things to the mix
(including added brown sugar, which we thought made it awesome). Honestly… I like our natural marinara sauce
and a lot of our natural foods much better than I like the other foods!
However; the most interesting thing happened with my wife
while she had a conversation with one of our friends friends there. We’ve long thought that Teflon pans are not
good for you—even though we do still cook on one—but have not been too worried
because it is fairly new and we will get rid of it long before flaking. But… according to this lady there is Teflon
that is in the bag material microwave popcorn is in and you ingest a ton of it
into your diet. We did look up some info
and there is stuff out there that confirms this idea, although I’m not sure on the
accuracy of the sites or where they get their information. I wonder how many other people out there have
heard or know about this as an issue?
This is where the devil is in the details. This site also claims that the Teflon is
found in the wrappers used in fast food restaurants to wrap hamburgers and
other goodies in! YIKES! If this is
true…
Dinner was leftovers—since we didn’t want to stretch this
into another day and since my wife went to dinner and a movie with her mom and
a friend last night (The Host) which they liked a whole lot! I also had some ice-cream tonight but did
watch the amount I ate (a full serving is about ½ a cup and I had about ¼ of a
cup). So far I don’t feel so bad but
we’ll have to see what tomorrow brings!
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