During the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons, people living gluten face the challenge of dining in homes that are not normally gluten free. These articles contain ideas that you may wish to share with your host of hostess:
♦ “Showing Hospitality to a Gluten Free Guest”
♦ “Please Don’t Pass the Bread: a Short Guide to Gluten Free”
♦ “Keeping Gluten Free Guests Safe”
♦ “Hide and Seek: Hidden Gluten at the Holiday Table”
Here are some things that we can do to make our visit go more smoothly:
♦ Read chapter 7 of The Gluten Free Bible which describes nine rules of “Ettiquette for the Allergic”. There is a widget at the bottom of this article which will enable you to order this wonderful book from Amazon.com.
♦ Avoid the term “cross contamination”. The wheat-based world uses the term “contamination” to mean something that is dirty (and can be cleaned by washing) and/or something that is germ laden (and can be made OK by cooking at a high temperature). For example, wheat is not a contaminant in the usual sense of the word — it is simply an ingredient to which we react. The term “cross contact” does a better job of explaining what we really mean.
♦ Read this article “Surviving the Holidays Gluten Free“.
For a roundup of all the Thanksgiving information available at this site, click here or click on the tab at the top of the page.
Or better yet – take on the task of making dinner. I like to entertain and whenever I do, everything is gluten freee. This has served two very useful purposes, my friends and family have learned that it’s not hard to do – especially if you cook with fresh ingredients and are not dependent upon “mixes” and several of them have discovered that they feel much better without gluten in their diets and have become converts to getting gluten out of their diets. And some just love me and are willing to go gluten free when I’m around, like my daughter who has become quite proficient at cooking gluten free when I visit for weeks at a time.