Gluten Free Gems
As you may be aware I haven’t written a blog post, well anything, on my website for a very long time – what can I say? Life is hectic! This doesn’t mean however that I haven’t been busy, in fact I have so much to tell you I am going to have to put it all into bite-size chunks ( apologies to all the teachers out there for that bit of teacher speak!).
Why now? What has inspired me soo much that I have no choice but to write about it? Usually when something good happens I smile, yet with this particular incident I not only smiled, I positively beamed and felt incredibly proud. What can it possibly be you wonder?!
Well, it all happened last Sunday. Amelie had been playing round at her best friends house, Lara, ( you will get to know Lara very well because not only are Lara and Amelie best friends they are, in fact, inseperable!). Anyway, when I went to pick Amelie up I was told that they had had a great time, especially when they had raided the biscuit tin! Now this may not strike you as anything unusual, children are always raiding the biscuit tin the world over, but this raid took place in a non-coeliac household and it wasn’t until I got home that I realised how fantastic this was.
You see if Lara’s mum had said that to me a year ago I probably would have gone straight into a list of questions like: Were they GF? Were there also gluten biscuits? Did everybody wipe their hands afterwards? etc etc. Yet this didn’t even to occur to me, you see Lara’s family understand the serious threat of cross-contamination and the effect it can have on Amelie. They have shown that being coeliac doesn’t make you different, everyone can enjoy GF biscuits, so no-one is left out.
GF has become a way of life for them so much so they don’t even notice it anymore! That’s the Gem, that is what is so fantastic about that incident, Lara’s family has embraced GF and has shown how easy it can be.
Thank-you Lara, Mya, Kathryn and Gerry for making a little girl feel very safe and happy. X