Notes to self

We went away for the weekend and I faced my first challenge being GFCF: a long ass car trip and getting a take out dinner on the Cape.

The car trip north was fine, it was the return trip that was hard.  First of all, it was six and a half hours long (it took four and a half hours to get there) and to endure the tedium of a long car trip with little to no "fresh" GFCF provisions was a challenge.  When leaving on a trip from home, the bags and cooler are packed with lots of goodies.  By the time three days away have passed, you've got only dregs left.

The getting take out situation involved the omnivores getting food from a recently renovated and hopping local pizza joint.  Pre-GFCF I would have gotten pizza or a sub.  This time, I knew the only thing I could order from there was a garden salad with oil and vinegar.  So, I did what GFCF Kid always does, pick something from the natural foods section of Cape Cod grandma's local supermarket.

I opted for prepackaged baba ghanoush and a bag of Cape Cod potato chips (and the garden salad from the pizza place).  It was not a bad dinner and I tried not to think about the little bit of preservative in my baba.  GFCF Kid's Ian's GFCF fish sticks were not half bad, in fact, they were kind of tasty.  I never would have tried them had I been inhaling an eggplant parm sub.

Lord help me when fresh seafood season returns on the Cape.  No lobster roll?  No fried scallops?  Waaah.

Easter dinner was no problem.  The ham was GFCF and I had steamed asparagus and salad on the side.  I didn't miss the usual dips and spreads even though they were right there on the table.

PMS has been raging since last night.  Karen's GFCF chocolate bark kept the bad stuff at bay during the right home (filched form the kids' Easter goody bags, my bag got lost in the shuffle somehow).

I broke the cardinal rule this morning when I went provision shopping before eating breakfast (a result of a combo of factors and a really uncharmed morning, to boot).  I had avocado sushi from Whole Foods for breakfast and scrambled eggs with a PMS dollop of spicy Thai chili sauce on toast for lunch and I am about to make pork chops for the kids and me for dinner.

And handfuls of Jelly Belly jellybeans in between.  That's the PMS part.

Also the PMS part?  I am craving Chinese food.  Big time.