Pleasant surprises while shopping

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I had to go shopping today.  I’m having my whole family over on Mother’s Day.  I’m making a pork tenderloin so I went to Sam’s Club.  They have a double pack of plain pork tenderloin that I can season as I want.

If you’ve never been in a Sam’s Club before, let me tell you the first time I went shopping there after being gluten free, it made me mad.  The place is filled with “food ladies” as I call them.  “Would you like to try some blah, blah, blah?”  That’s like a land mind for the gluten intolerant.  I had to say no to everything.

In our local Sam’s, they are around every corner.  I try to avoid them.  I was almost done with my shopping today and was at the cheese area where I had avoided two of them already.  There was one lady with her table and back to me so I sneaked around behind her looking at the cheese trying to find something for Mother’s Day.  I was stressing myself a little because I was thinking I was going to have to make a special trip to find some gluten free crackers to go with the cheese I was buying.

As I came around the other side of the cheese counter and up towards the side of her, I noticed my husband reading the box the food lady had out.  I could hear him say, “I think my wife might be able to eat this.”  I was thinking he was crazy.  All I could see was whole grain from a distance.

I came over to look at the box and realized it was a rice cracker and the box said gluten free!  Geeze, I got so excited.  And the food lady was serving it with Laughing Cow cheese.  I actually got to eat something the food lady was serving!  Way.  Cool.  I bought two boxes.  Crackers for cheese crisis was solved.  No special trip for crackers needed!  And, they were darn good!

These crackers are made by Crunchmaster.  I have heard mixed reviews on the internet about the fact they are made in a facility that also uses wheat.  On the box it says less than 100 parts per million.  It seems as if some think that is not low enough and it should be less than 20 parts per million.  So, buy at your own risk.  I am trying them.  We’ll see.

Then I went to Walmart.  I usually have trouble finding a gluten free, healthy chicken broth.  I don’t like a bunch of chemicals in my chicken broth.  There on the shelf they had Rachel Ray Stock in a Box.  And right on the side the words, gluten free.  Again, way cool.  Thank you, Rachel.

On the way home, I had to stop at Kroger’s.  Yes, I was in every grocery store on the southside of Indianapolis today!  I was hoping to find a vinegar similar to the one I get at Trader Joe’s.  No such luck at Walmart, so I thought I’d give Kroger’s a try.  No luck there either, but I found a salad dressing with gluten free on the label.  So I had to buy it.  Just because.  It was good too!

I don’t know about you all, but I get so excited when I see gluten free on a label.  I think my week is ending on an upswing.  It didn’t start out to well.

Steve bought me an elliptical and it’s defective.  It has to be exchanged.  We bought a sofa a couple weeks ago and was told the color we wanted was on back order.  So after weeks of waiting, on Tuesday my new sofa was being delivered.  The delivery guy was walking in the house with a cushion and I noticed it was the wrong color.  It was green.  I ordered beige!  He asked me if I was sure.  Like I wouldn’t know the difference between ordering green or beige.  Hmmmm.  No comment.

So come to find out, the reason we had to wait several weeks was because they had keyed in the wrong color.  They had my color in stock all along.  Hopefully my new sofa will be sitting in my living room by next Tuesday.  I have high hopes because my week is getting better!

I have my menu ready for Mother’s Day and hopefully, tomorrow I will have some pictures and recipes posted.  That is if I’m not too tired after cooking all day.  I am making as much as I can tomorrow so Sunday will be less stressful.  The potato salad I make is better the second day anyway.

Here is my menu:

Pork tenderloin

Cesar potato salad

Sue’s beans

Cranberry walnut slaw

Crescent rolls

Millet bread

Swedish Pinnapple cake

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