Dietary Restrictions

Hello darling Readers!

I figured I ought to throw a post up here about the required dietary restrictions that will be entering the house this weekend - as well as those already in place here.

First off: The Main Household:

• Mr. K is slightly allergic to gluten - and as such, we keep a low gluten household.

• KK is allergic to corn - mostly canned food for this kitty!

• I myself am allergic to aspartame (and thus too afraid to try the bevy of new artificial sweeteners on the market). Pineapple and cinnamon are not so very friendly to me, nor is beef. Ah, poor cow... how I love your flavor, but not your after effects. T_T

The Incoming:

• ZV is on quite a restrictive medical necessity diet; low acidity. It doesn't sound so awful at first - but then you realize you can't have citrus fruits or tomatoes! Or curry. I could cry.

Just for the weekend:

• S has Crohn's - there is very little food he can eat without the whole meal resulting in a lot of pain.

• Momie is allergic to wheat gluten (known as Celiac Disease), and due to medial necessity is now on a low-oxalate diet. At this point, it is easier to list the food she CAN eat - which, as she says, is "Air. Supplemented by water. That's about it."

Since Momie has the most restrictive diet of the lot of us, I figured cooking Thursday's dinner and Friday's breakfast and lunch with what's acceptable within her wide range of restrictions would be most frugal - one meal cooked means less time and money sunk to feed us all. I spent all morning practicing my Googlemancy and wound up with only two websites that have any recipes for a gluten-free low-oxalate diet - http://www.beallergywise.com/tag/low-oxalate/ is accompanied by the poster's blog (which is a great read!). I am particularly enamored with the GFLO sugar cookies! Our second (in my case, far more useful) find is http://www.lowoxalate.info/recipes.html - click through the tabs on the top of their page; all of their recipes are GFLO. ^_^

Love and best dishes!
~ the delectable Mrs. K

Let's call it a refresh, shall we?

Dearest Readers -

I do apologize for my excessively long absence from the glorious intertubes, net-nets, web-web, and other such online activities. Life, as they say, caught up with me - and I let my poor blog die off as a result.

Well! No more! I am making a commitment right here, right now - no longer shall I deprive my lack of an audience from my overenthusiastic zeal for frugality, food, and generally far too wordy updates on life in general.

A lot has happened since my last post - the least of which is the celebration Mr. K and I had over our second anniversary! We packed up and drove out to Saugatuck, MI - which should have only been an hour and a half of a drive from us. We decided to road trip it - and hey, getting lost was half the fun. Lake Michigan was indescribleable in it's rolling fog - the closest I can come to a proper telling is to say it reminded me of Scotland. Beautiful! Our lodgings were especially wonderful at the Kingsley house Inn B&B, and we are highly recommending the romantic qualities and superb hosts of the Inn to all our friends!

First off: the bad news. My car was stolen over Thanksgiving weekend. I ended up totaling the new car in a nasty accident in February (from which I have completely recovered! Fear not!). The car I now own broke down in Sterling Heights - nearly 3 horus from home. My mainstay job has ended. My husband is down to 21 hours a week and he does not qualify for underemployment benefits.

Now that the ick is out of the way, time for the good news! The nicest car I ever owned chose a good place to pop it's belt pulley - in my hometown, down the street from my parent's house! She was gracefully a quick repair at Plumbrook Auto Care. My husbands hours will go up in the fall - the lab has restricted hours for the summer. There is a chance he will be running his own lab once the building gets properly outfitted for students. Last night at 1AM TORNADO SIRENS woke us up, but thankfully there is no damage to our house, persons, or cat!

Oh - and the big news - TK moved out almost two months ago! He is getting along just splendidly in his new bachelor pad over on the southwest side of the city. Congrats on the move!

And speaking of moving out - we happen to have the delight of sharing our abode with friends for the summer! RK and her beau ZV have moved into the spare room so recently vacated by TK - we'll be supplying a roof for them between the end of their lease and the move into their new house! As a bonus, they've bought their own little ball of fluff, T, to befriend KK. Since both our kitties have all their claws - well, this will be an interesting dominance battle for sure.

This weekend is JAFAX, and as with any con it will be hectic. What with all the activity going on in this house, its going to be even crazier! We're moving the aforementioned trio in Friday, S is crashing on our couch for JAFAX, Momie (that's Mr. K's mother) is popping by to drop some home canned goods off for us, we've got a grad party to attend on Saturday, and after church on Sunday we'll be at JAFAX. Oh, and we may or may not have a few conscragglers crashing on the inflatabed. Or the floor, if the inflatabed refuses to inflate. Or both, if it does!

Woo! A full house indeed!

Oh yes - and for those of you who aren't in the know - JAFAX is the local anime convention held at GVSU. Come see us there! The whole crew will be over in the card corner as per our usual run of this con.

Ta Ta for now,
The Fantabulous Mrs. K