The invaders...

It was a sad night in the Johnson house...we "let go" of our gluten-containing counterparts.  Bye graham crackers, whole wheat ritz crackers (oh so yummy with a dollup of peanut butter), quaker oatmeal squares with a hint of maple sugar.  See ya later orea balls, the melt in your mouth goodness that fit perfectly into my mouth...you are my arch nemesis and my kryptonite. It's weird how you feel like you have some sort of relationship with your food.  How can a goodbye be this tragic? It is odd that we feel sad about the departure of yumminess that filled our pantry? I believe Tommy would answer no...

Grocery shopping takes on a whole new meaning.  I can't say that I never read food labels, because I obviously do.  But now I am even more particular about it.  Gluten sneaks into pretty much everything we eat, which is why following a gluten-free diet means scanning every ingredient, unless it is a fresh fruit or vegetable because then it is obviously a given.  It's exhausting...and most likely irritating to other shoppers attempting to whiz pass us with their get out my way attitudes.  Excuse us, but we have labels to read so cool your jets people!  Anyway tonight we started our grocery shopping at Aldi, great quality products at half the price with local suppliers to guarantee fresh produce.  No advertisements and the home of the Fit n Active brand (knock off any low calorie/low fat brand but half the price).  We love Fit n  Active! $80 and later a cart full of gltuten-free items, we were pleasantly surprised with our choices.  Off to County Market we went, where Tommy found his alternative to Oreo balls:

We found gluten-free bread, which felt like it weighed 5lbs, and we scurried around for the rest of our items we were unable to purchase at Aldi.  $38 later and we were on our way home to make our first gluten free recipe, lime chicken tacos! Let the cooking begin!!

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