SillyCeliactics_5: GlutenFreeFriendsTasteGood

“Oh! I didn’t know we have gluten free pizza here,” the teenager says as she rings up the George’s pizza.
“Yup,” he says watching the six dollar 8″ pie ring up on the register screen.
“I have a few friends who are Gluten Free….I mean they try and….Celiac’s. They are Celiacs….I don’t know why I just called [...]

SillyCeliactics_4

“Yah, so it turns out that a lot of everyday food like bread, pasta, cookies, pizza, salad dressings – I shouldn’t be eatin’ “
“Oh, well when you were a baby the only thing you could eat was rice.”
“What! Why didn’t you ever tell me that before?”
“Well you seemed to grow out of it.”
“Oh, well [...]

SillyCeliactics_3

“So, what would you like to eat….ghee, your on this weird diet and we haven’t seen you in a while….”
“What Weird Diet. How weird can it be, I have been eating GlutenFree, this way, for over ten years. It’s not really a “diet” it is a medically prescribed way of eating. It’s what I have to [...]

SillyCeliactics_2: Pasta Is Made of Pasta

“You can have pasta right? It doesn’t have any meat,” accompanied by a genuinely hopeful look of confusion.
“No, I’m sorry I can’t eat most pasta, it is pretty much made up entirely of wheat which has all the gluten you could hope to put into a grain,” accompanied by a sorrowful look of….sorrow.
“Oh. It has [...]

SillyCeliactics_1

“I’d get you some food….but you’re on that stupid diet,” accompanied by a look of disgust and confusion.
“It’s not a stupid diet— it’s a disease. If I don’t eat right, I get sick…. Now that would be stupid.” Accompanied by a look of Glufreef (Gluten-Free fatigue and grief born of explaining celiac reality, yet again, [...]