Party Planning

The #1 lesson I have learned through my free journey is I have to meal plan plan plan! Last weekend was my best friends birthday and she wanted to go to a red robin style restaurant. Well there’s not much I can eat at there so I made sure to have some gluten free oatmeal before I arrived and pigged out on some fries when i got there.This weekend is my 21st and while a normal 21 year old would be concerned about what to drink, I’m so nervous about what I’m going to eat. My family loves going out to eat and eating out is my absolute worst! So when planning the menu with my mom we had to make sure everything we ate there was a gluten/dairy free option.

So night one we are having pasta night so I can have my gluten free noodles and then  in the morning a pancake breakfast so I can have my gluten free chocolate chip pancakes.

It will be annoying for everyone else that we have to stay in but I don’t care because its my party and I can be gluten and dairy free if I want to!

Birthday Dinners

This weekend I went to Spokane to visit my sister for her birthday. We ate out every meal and as many of you with dietary restrictions know, eating out is not easy or fun. Almost everything comes with cheese on it and bread on the side. I usually have two choices. A salad or some kind of meat with veggies.

On Friday night we went to Anthony which is usually one of my favorite places! As soon as we sat down we started talking about appetizers. Let me start off my saying crab dip is my favorite when I go to any seafood restaurant. So of course they order the crab dip and breaded asparagus and then the waitress continued to place two large baskets of fresh bread right in front of me.

At this point I am being tortured and I’m sitting quietly and waiting for my salad. When the salad arrived I was very upset. I remembered to ask for no croutons but forgot to say no cheese. I was starving and watching everyone around me stuffing their faces. Finally the dinner arrived after the longest 45 minutes of my life and I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to see food!

The next nights dinner was quite the repeat of the night before. I think this was my sisters way of getting back at me from all the mean things I did to her as kids. We sat down and again ordered crab dip!  Then they sat down the best smelling garlic bread I’ve ever smelled! I almost died. It took every thing in my body not to risk it and have a piece. The worst part was after dinner when my Mom’s boyfriend ordered three desserts that I couldn’t eat. Creme brulee, chocolate cake, and breaded pudding.

Oh well! Overall probably saved me about 1500 calories!

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