08/10/2026
I’ve been called a “health nut” simply because I have to eat gluten-free.
Now, I am NOT a health nut. 😂
My body just can’t digest gluten. If I could eat gluten, I think I’d eat a Snowball snack cake, a real sloppy New York-style pepperoni pizza, a baker’s dozen of donuts, KFC crispy chicken—or even the Original Recipe with some hot sauce. 😂
Funny enough, I worked at KFC for 11 years and even ran my own KFC/Taco Bell for a few years, all during the early stages of my diagnosis.
And cinnamon rolls… 😩 The ones that sound really good right now are those ones in the can that actually unroll into a real cinnamon roll—not the biscuit-looking ones with the little brown sugar specks. 😂 Give me the cream cheese frosting, too!
So yeah, I’m cautious about what I eat because gluten isn’t just something I “choose to avoid.” With celiac disease, eating gluten causes my body to attack itself and can cause serious damage over time.
I recently learned that celiac disease can actually be classified as a disability. Not necessarily being on a gluten-free diet itself, but the celiac disease.
And that really made me think about how people see gluten-free eating.
I’m not doing this because I’m trying to be healthier than everyone else. I’m doing it because I literally don’t have a choice.
And here I am, trying my best to recreate all the foods I miss… but make them gluten-free. ❤️
Because I DO miss them.
I miss the foods I grew up eating. I miss the convenience. I miss being able to walk into a bakery and just pick something because it looks amazing.
So if you see me working on a gluten-free version of something that is traditionally FULL of gluten, that’s why.
I’m not trying to make “health food.”
I’m trying to make the food I miss. 😋❤️
And maybe, just maybe, make it good enough that I forget for a minute that it’s gluten-free. 😂
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