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After a salad (heirloom tomatoe, power greens (spinach/argula), cucumber, and onion with some lemon juice (use it instead of dressing) - I took off to get a cookie. It was a gray day, cool, and I didn't feel like walking about seeing the sights at lunch. So I made an excuse to go and get a cookie. (I've gone from checking out matcha latte places to checking out cookie places).
I decided to try Flavors Cafe, which had gluten-free cookies. I wanted to try their chocolate chip along with their black and white (which is never a good idea for anyone with sugar sensitivities (it's 20 g of carbs), but you know...it is a NYC staple and rare to find gluten-free). Also this is a health food store - with probiotics in the cookies.
( The cookies )
I got hoodwinked. Again. It looked like a chocolate chip cookie in the store. But it was in reality an oatmeal raisin cookie masquerading as a chocolate chip cookie. And I idiotically did not look at the back of it.
I don't know why I didn't look at the back of it before I bought it.
Brain fog?
( the ingredients and type on the back )
I decided to eat the Black and White cookie - which was okay? But I prefer Meredith's. I won't get it again from either place, though. Too sweet and not worth the side-effects. (It's not good for blood sugar. My body wasn't happy with it at all. In short, I liked it, it didn't like me. The chocolate chip cookies that I'd had yesterday, on the other hand - didn't do a thing.) Note to self - stick with Insomina, and ditch Flavors.
They had other flavors available - tasty cookies - Caramel Chocolate and Chocolate Chip, along with shortbread, and Macademia White Chocolate Chunk, but they are not available as gluten free. I don't know why. But they aren't.
Oh well, grateful to at have at least found gluten free soft cookies. There was a time I wouldn't have been able to find any and had to make my own - way back in 2005. I've been gluten free for about 20 years this August. Diagnosed in and around August 2005, after a long and painful process. [The medical community in the US is horrible at diagnosing ceiliac disease. They don't understand it at all and don't really know how to treat it. I had to hunt for a primary care doctor who took it seriously and went through two gastroenterologist - before I got a clear diagnosis in 2017, prior to that I was told it was gluten sensitivity, now I know I have the gene.]
I've satisfied my cookie craving for the most part. Right now the best cookies I've had to date - are the gooey big ones from the Courteylou Road bakery and coffee shop about a twenty-thirty minute walk from my home.
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August Question a Day Memage - I'm behind again and catching up:
16. It’s National Roller Coaster Day – are you a fan of roller coasters?
No. ( why )
17. Do you make your bed every day?
Of course. ( why )
18. When you are thirsty what is your beverage of choice?
Water. [Most of the time, all I drink is water.]
19. Do people shorten your given name, and if they do, do you mind?
Yes, all the time. Do I mind? Depends on how they shorten it. But No - if they use the gender neutral version (which most people do, once people get to know me - they use the gender neutral version or my actual name, nothing else. Close friends shorten it to the gender neutral version).
( Read more... )
20. Are you left-handed or right-handed? Would you like to be ambidextrous?
Right handed, but because I have a tremor and it is more predominate in my right hand, I can do some things with the left - and often use the left for things like holding glasses, holding cups, carrying things, stuff like that. I can type with both. And do type with both. But I don't write or type on my phone with the left. And I paint with my right hand. I may try to start painting with the left - because of the aforementioned tremor. So yes, on ambidextrous.
21. Do you live near any trees? What’s the tallest tree nearby?
Yes, multiple trees. ( Read more... )
***
Bonus questions:
Are you a forest or the trees type of person? Macro or micro? Big picture or details?
Forest, Big Picture, Macro thinker. Although, as you all know, I can do the nitty gritty details, because I have to as part of my job - it's required. But overall, I tend to think Big Picture in regards to most things. Or see the forest and how it all works together as a whole. ( Read more... )
I decided to try Flavors Cafe, which had gluten-free cookies. I wanted to try their chocolate chip along with their black and white (which is never a good idea for anyone with sugar sensitivities (it's 20 g of carbs), but you know...it is a NYC staple and rare to find gluten-free). Also this is a health food store - with probiotics in the cookies.
( The cookies )
I got hoodwinked. Again. It looked like a chocolate chip cookie in the store. But it was in reality an oatmeal raisin cookie masquerading as a chocolate chip cookie. And I idiotically did not look at the back of it.
I don't know why I didn't look at the back of it before I bought it.
Brain fog?
( the ingredients and type on the back )
I decided to eat the Black and White cookie - which was okay? But I prefer Meredith's. I won't get it again from either place, though. Too sweet and not worth the side-effects. (It's not good for blood sugar. My body wasn't happy with it at all. In short, I liked it, it didn't like me. The chocolate chip cookies that I'd had yesterday, on the other hand - didn't do a thing.) Note to self - stick with Insomina, and ditch Flavors.
They had other flavors available - tasty cookies - Caramel Chocolate and Chocolate Chip, along with shortbread, and Macademia White Chocolate Chunk, but they are not available as gluten free. I don't know why. But they aren't.
Oh well, grateful to at have at least found gluten free soft cookies. There was a time I wouldn't have been able to find any and had to make my own - way back in 2005. I've been gluten free for about 20 years this August. Diagnosed in and around August 2005, after a long and painful process. [The medical community in the US is horrible at diagnosing ceiliac disease. They don't understand it at all and don't really know how to treat it. I had to hunt for a primary care doctor who took it seriously and went through two gastroenterologist - before I got a clear diagnosis in 2017, prior to that I was told it was gluten sensitivity, now I know I have the gene.]
I've satisfied my cookie craving for the most part. Right now the best cookies I've had to date - are the gooey big ones from the Courteylou Road bakery and coffee shop about a twenty-thirty minute walk from my home.
****
August Question a Day Memage - I'm behind again and catching up:
16. It’s National Roller Coaster Day – are you a fan of roller coasters?
No. ( why )
17. Do you make your bed every day?
Of course. ( why )
18. When you are thirsty what is your beverage of choice?
Water. [Most of the time, all I drink is water.]
19. Do people shorten your given name, and if they do, do you mind?
Yes, all the time. Do I mind? Depends on how they shorten it. But No - if they use the gender neutral version (which most people do, once people get to know me - they use the gender neutral version or my actual name, nothing else. Close friends shorten it to the gender neutral version).
( Read more... )
20. Are you left-handed or right-handed? Would you like to be ambidextrous?
Right handed, but because I have a tremor and it is more predominate in my right hand, I can do some things with the left - and often use the left for things like holding glasses, holding cups, carrying things, stuff like that. I can type with both. And do type with both. But I don't write or type on my phone with the left. And I paint with my right hand. I may try to start painting with the left - because of the aforementioned tremor. So yes, on ambidextrous.
21. Do you live near any trees? What’s the tallest tree nearby?
Yes, multiple trees. ( Read more... )
***
Bonus questions:
Are you a forest or the trees type of person? Macro or micro? Big picture or details?
Forest, Big Picture, Macro thinker. Although, as you all know, I can do the nitty gritty details, because I have to as part of my job - it's required. But overall, I tend to think Big Picture in regards to most things. Or see the forest and how it all works together as a whole. ( Read more... )