The Gluten Free Diet

Seriously. Don’t read this if you’re on a diet to lose weight. If you continue to read this post, I apologize in advance.

A few months ago, my health conscience sister popped by with some gluten free ginger snaps from Trader Joe’s grocery store. This is my sister who will lecture me on eating healthy, all the while she is subconsciously stuffing handfuls of potato chips in her mouth, while I nod “Yes, Shari, I will eat my vegetables”. So I don’t know why she bought the gluten free ginger snaps, which have about 6 grams of fat in 5 cookies [read: not healthy]. “They’re really good”, she said, “try some”. So I did, and she was right, they were pretty good. And I like ginger snaps. I don’t really have cravings for them, like I do for French toast and Reuben sandwiches, but I like ginger snaps.

The gluten free ginger snaps are alright; nothing to write home about (or even blog about, apparently).

However, while in the process of moving out of my house, I was trying not to make any more trips to the grocery store and instead be innovative with what I already had in my cupboards. I ducked down into my bottom cupboard, shuffling around in my mix of packaged and canned food, and this is what I popped back up with:

*Disclaimer: I do not know if Jif peanut butter is entirely gluten free. It does not say that it is on the label.

Before I knew it, a half a jar of peanut butter was gone, because this is what I was doing with them:

Yum, yum, yum. That’s all I have to say. Don’t blame me if you gain a few pounds; I gave you fair warning!