One Easter tradition around our house is potato salad. What else can you do with all those hard boiled eggs!
It is really nice to know that all of the ingredients are totally gluten-free, and I can enjoy potato salad as always!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Tale of Yet Another One Who Doesn't "Get It"
San Diego State had an event today where everyone could tour campus, visit information booths, and generally get a feel for the place. It was meant for new and transfer students and their families. I went with my daughter.
She stopped at a booth to ask questions about a topic that interested her. I'm not sure what was said because I was focused on the girl dispensing the information. It was more or less lunch time, and she had a sandwich that I once might have called "healthy" because it looked to be made of whole grain bread. It was in a baggie, and instead of holding the sandwich by the baggie and eating it directly, the girl was holding it in one hand and breaking off pieces of it with the other.
All I could think of was with the hand that touched the bread, she contaminated every single piece of paper on that table!
ACK!
She stopped at a booth to ask questions about a topic that interested her. I'm not sure what was said because I was focused on the girl dispensing the information. It was more or less lunch time, and she had a sandwich that I once might have called "healthy" because it looked to be made of whole grain bread. It was in a baggie, and instead of holding the sandwich by the baggie and eating it directly, the girl was holding it in one hand and breaking off pieces of it with the other.
All I could think of was with the hand that touched the bread, she contaminated every single piece of paper on that table!
ACK!
Friday, March 7, 2008
Tale of My Boggled Mind
Ya gotta love it. This absolutely boggles my mind.
It seems that in the interest of economics, some companies are choosing to move offshore, costing countless American jobs. Some of these same companies are choosing to purchase the ingredients that make up their products from a variety of sources. They don't appear to be interested in the quality of the ingredients, or even what those ingredients are. They do not require the suppliers to provide the information ~ citing proprietary secrets or some such horsepucky. They also change suppliers at the drop of a hat with no notice to the buyers of their products. Therefore they cannot tell a customer whether or not a product is safe for that customer to eat because they really have no idea what is in it.
Did you get that? They expect you to trust them to provide a product that is safe for you to eat, but they themselves don't even know what is in it!
ACK!
Two major companies that I know of that adamantly REFUSE to disclose ingredients are KFC and Hershey's.
A friend told me of her experience at KFC when trying to find something safe for her child to eat. The manager flat out refused. Rather than risk her child's life (yes life) she chose to take her business and money elsewhere.
The sorry Hershey's saga can be found here.
It seems that in the interest of economics, some companies are choosing to move offshore, costing countless American jobs. Some of these same companies are choosing to purchase the ingredients that make up their products from a variety of sources. They don't appear to be interested in the quality of the ingredients, or even what those ingredients are. They do not require the suppliers to provide the information ~ citing proprietary secrets or some such horsepucky. They also change suppliers at the drop of a hat with no notice to the buyers of their products. Therefore they cannot tell a customer whether or not a product is safe for that customer to eat because they really have no idea what is in it.
Did you get that? They expect you to trust them to provide a product that is safe for you to eat, but they themselves don't even know what is in it!
ACK!
Two major companies that I know of that adamantly REFUSE to disclose ingredients are KFC and Hershey's.
A friend told me of her experience at KFC when trying to find something safe for her child to eat. The manager flat out refused. Rather than risk her child's life (yes life) she chose to take her business and money elsewhere.
The sorry Hershey's saga can be found here.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Tale of ACK!
ACK!!! Just ACK!!!
Yesterday a mom with her daughter came into where I work. The daughter was eating a bag of Goldfish Crackers (read poisonous source of gluten) and as unsupervised children tend to do, she was touching absolutely everything with her gluten-contaminated hands.
There was nothing I could do about all the paper goods she contaminated, but after she left I had to go around and clean off all the hard surfaces I could find. I absolutely HATE it anyway when kids start messing up the greeting card displays (what ever happened to "don't touch it - it isn't yours and you are not going to buy it" ?????) and not only did she contribute to that mess but she did it with gluteny hands, leaving an invisible but toxic trail behind her.
THEN, I get to church to work with the AWANA Sparkies, and here comes a whole family eating their dinner on the run as they came in.
PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank God for my co-worker who 1) understands my situation because of food intolerances in her family and 2) after eating the piece the family brought for her, cleaned off the table, doorknobs, etc, where the pizza had been.
Think of gluten as dog poop. Would you want to touch it? Would you eat anything that had come in contact with it?
NO?
Now you know how I feel.
Yesterday a mom with her daughter came into where I work. The daughter was eating a bag of Goldfish Crackers (read poisonous source of gluten) and as unsupervised children tend to do, she was touching absolutely everything with her gluten-contaminated hands.
There was nothing I could do about all the paper goods she contaminated, but after she left I had to go around and clean off all the hard surfaces I could find. I absolutely HATE it anyway when kids start messing up the greeting card displays (what ever happened to "don't touch it - it isn't yours and you are not going to buy it" ?????) and not only did she contribute to that mess but she did it with gluteny hands, leaving an invisible but toxic trail behind her.
THEN, I get to church to work with the AWANA Sparkies, and here comes a whole family eating their dinner on the run as they came in.
PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank God for my co-worker who 1) understands my situation because of food intolerances in her family and 2) after eating the piece the family brought for her, cleaned off the table, doorknobs, etc, where the pizza had been.
Think of gluten as dog poop. Would you want to touch it? Would you eat anything that had come in contact with it?
NO?
Now you know how I feel.
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