Wednesday, September 8, 2010

El Jefe's quote of the day

This morning after indulging in some Quaker Oat Squares (just watching him eat those gave me horrendous stomach cramps), El Jefe proceeded to inhale a cup of plain yogurt. Me: "How's your yogurt?" El Jefe: "It's gluten free!" Oh, how I love him! Let me count the ways!

Anyhow, I did not have to rage with extreme jealousy because I have found a gluten free breakfast cereal that I love! With a little rice milk*, it is stupendous and even stays crunchy til the last bite! The best part you ask? It is a subtle version of that good ol' gluten filled standby called Cap'n Crunch! No really, I kid you not (woh woh)!



Yeah, it's a "kids" cereal, but come on! It's me we're talking about! I refuse to conform to the confines of a mature adult existence! I can happily report that Gorilla Munch also has 2 grams of dietary fiber as opposed to its counterpart that is sitting on my pantry shelf which has zippo fiber! I will take fiber where I can get fiber, thank you very much!



This Rice Twice business is like eating Styrofoam peanuts drenched in milk! I had to "Pour Some Sugar On" it just to make it palatable and that's a nutritional contradiction right there. Hmm, I wonder if there is such a thing as gf marshmallows that might be the only hope for the remaining contents of this box!

*FUN FACT: Did you know that gluten intolerance and lactose intolerance walk hand in hand? No wonder I was so miserable, not only had I stripped my small intestine of all its villi-hairlike structures that absorb nutrients and increase the surface area of the s.i.-BUT the tips of those villi were long gone and guess what breaks down lactose? You guessed it, lactase. If the tips are non-existent, as they were in my case, I literally made myself lactose intolerant. Needless to say, I have been treading lightly when it comes to dairy but I can now enjoy cereal without disastrous and bodily consequences immediately, after an hour, and sometimes lasting the duration of an entire day, thereafter.  

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