I need to prepare for situations where it will be difficult or impossible to find gluten free. Like most Americans, I spent today (3/11/2011) glued to my television watching the earthquake/tsunami tragedy unfolding in Japan and praying for their survival. It’s been a difficult day for all of us, particularly when we realized that there were celiacs in that crowd and that they were enduring an extra burden because they probably could not find gluten free  food. Let’s face it friends, this sort of tragedy could befall us, and it would be even more unbearable if we were starving and/or ‘glutened’ because we could not ‘find’ safe food. Our rescuers would have higher priorities than locating gluten free food.  We’d be on our own.

I did some soul searching and a bit of on-line research before I wrote this post. I’ll share them tomorrow. But I wanted to get this out as soon as possible.