You Know Your a Celiac When…

Just thought I would make one of these for a fun post! 

• You have been told “oh your so lucky to have that disease…that’s how you must stay so thin!”
• You refer to non gluten free foods as “normal people foods”
• You have driven over 30 minutes to buy some gluten free cookies from special health food stores.
• You give the bread isle the evil eye and mumble something under your breath when you walk by.
• You cringe when people rattle off a list of ingredients that they used and say “yeah I think that’s all I used…”
• You have had someone throw away saved gluten free leftover because they thought they were “old and tasted bad”.
• You were upset the rest of the day after the above incident.
• Your dog wouldn’t even eat the first batch of gluten free cookies you attempted to make.
• You have an almost scary reaction time to the word “wheat” or “gluten” printed on anything.
• You drool while watching someone eat a piece of pizza…and you seriously contemplate whether or not to knock them down to take it.
• You dream about foods you once enjoyed.
• You bring your own food to parties.
• You have to constantly explain yourself for why you cannot try someones dish at a dinner party.
• You are suspicious of  the flavored rice.
• You know that Dermatitis Herpetiformis is in fact, not herpes.
• You may have set your eyes in a permanent squinting state after trying your best to read the ingredients on a package of makeup.
• You don’t even attempt to read ingredients for lip gloss anymore.
• You have to write your name on the Mayo jar and have an extra one for guests…because you cannot go through another episode of having family members use the same knife they used to cut their sandwich…then dip into the Mayo jar!
• You have annoyed your family with  “if I could eat gluten again I would eat…”.  On more than one occasion.
• You fear cross contamination to an unhealthy level.
• You get excited for the little things like Heinz having multiple gluten free products.
• You are the clean police… wash your hands after eating that sandwich!
• You pre-wash any dishes that had gluten on them before loading them in the dishwasher…because you just never know where the left over gluten goes in there.
• You have been dared to “just eat a crumb of this bread…so I can see what happens!”
• You have been asked if you will explode if you eat bread.
• You wet your envelops and refuse to lick them.
• You could never play beer pong.
• You have become an expert at reading labels.
• You know that eating gluten free is not a “diet” for loosing weight.
• You get overly excited when you see those wonderful words on the label…”gluten free”.
• You have paid $8 for two serving box of spaghetti.
• You have also paid $6 for a box of crackers.
• You have forgotten what real cookies taste like.
• You forget that when you discover new gluten free foods like Chex cereal… that your husband doesn’t want to eat cereal for breakfast…lunch…and dinner.