Celiacs Conference

Today was the night that S and I were looking forward to the most. It was the Celiacs Cook Off competition on Treasure Island. Of course this also happened to be during the same week that the Bay Bridge cable broke dooming us to traffic hell for the two hours as we made our way to the conference. We drove the very long way to the event and it was the world’s biggest pain ever! But after 2 hours in the car and being 1.5 hours late to the event, we made it, and we enjoyed it and we ate until we could eat no more. Along with bringing home a truck full of treats. I took every freebie imaginable and stocked my food storage up. This was the best idea ever and the best event.

We tasted some amazing food and got to eat with no worries of cross contamination. It was a gluten free event that we got to enjoy and we loved it! There was also gluten free alcohol! Which of course drove us wild! S and L went with me to the conference. S and I are both Celiacs while L used to eat gluten free and now is off the restrictions. But she understands the boat we are in and she is okay with eating gluten free, even if she knows how to enjoy the good stuff.

L and S got to enjoy some major alcohol consumption without ID being checked. It started with asking for Lemonade and ending up with Hard Lemonade, but the girls were not complaining and we each got to walk out of the conference with some gluten free, very tasty, pear flavored beer. The bad thing about this stuff though is that it tastes so good and masks the flavor of alcohol so well... that you will drink it so fast that you will get drunk before it even hits you hard.

We got to do a lot of food tasting, and that was tons of fun, and that was the main reason we went... to eat. But we walked away with a lot of junk food and we got a goody bag that was well worth the price we paid for the ticket. Gluten free food is expensive in itself... and for us to get an all you can eat buffet with open bar and tons of junk... along with a goody bag piled high... its well worth the $35 ticket... I walked home with $60 in free cookies myself... and thats not including the other crap I got for free! I also found a ton of awesome foods that I can eat that I love and taste good. Which is rare.

Some new favorites of mine are Froose Juice, Boar’s Head Meat, and St. Dalfour.