Happy Easter!!

 

Whether you celebrate Easter or Passover this weekend, wishing you and yours a lovely holiday weekend - and may all the chocolate that crosses your path... be gluten free!

top 10 gluten-free snacks on the road

This is not about being healthy... I'm talking about when you're living out of a bag or backpack - in a car or stuck in airports. No fridge, no specialty food shops.... hard core gluten-free sustenance. In gas stations, airport news stands, convenience stores and tiny local market shops look for the following caloric fuel:

• the banana or an apple
• nuts, seeds & trail mix
• V8 Vegetable or tomato juice
• single serving yogurt or cottage cheese
• cheese (cheese strings or babybel... sometimes!)
• ice cream bar (read the label of course!)
• regular (ideally unflavoured) potato chips
• natcho chips (ideally unflavoured) 
• popcorn
• chocolate bar (more label reading)....

This is "survival" food - I'm not recommending that anyone should eat like this... but next time you find yourself in a panic for calories - it's good to know that there is always something that will do in a pinch. Let's face it, those donuts, danishes, and panini wrapped up in these fueling stops aren't all that fresh or appetizing either - we aren't missing much! 

Worth keeping in the glove box of your car (or your knapsack when traveling):

• rice cakes (sealed they seem to keep forever).
• plastic fork & spoon
• travel knife
• individually wrapped wet wipes

Click HERE to see my post about our last big road trip for more (and much healthier) ideas on what to pack when traveling... and I'd love to hear of some of your own!!

gluten-free gingerbread house kit... home sweet home!

I walked by the kit twice before I finally picked up the box and gave in to the urge. I have never actually built AND eaten a gingerbread house in my life. El Peto just made it too easy to walk away. 

While this model won't make it into Architectural Digest... I'm pretty pleased with myself for making the effort - and will be just as pleased to demolish it over the holidays and eat the cookie slabs (as opposed to just picking off the decorations!). Do you have any classic yuletide favorites you are looking to find, or replicate this holiday season?

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