I’m a Pepper!
Yay! It’s negative. Here’s the run-down: For the test, I measured out two cups of Dr. Pepper, put it in a stainless steel pot and simmered it down until it was down to half a cup. So that’s what? A 4x reduction? It didn’t thicken up too much either. It was still pretty liquidy and wicked up the test strip just fine. I let it cool down to room temperature too because I was worried that heat might make the test not work right. I looked at the strip under a good light too and there wasn’t even a faint line. The control and hook lines showed up fine, so we have a negative.
So Dr. Pepper is definitely gluten free. Well at least there’s that. Honestly, I’m probably just eating (and drinking) waaaay too much sugar, especially with all of the halloween candy around.
I did take a glutenease as I was waiting for the test to finish and I felt better emotionally after about 15 minutes even after being down in the dumps a bit for a few days. (In addition to feeling sick.) Which coincides with me buying the halloween candy. As far as I’m remembering the only halloween candy I’ve been eating have been the Baby Ruths and Butterfingers. In my experience, Butterfingers are kind of a crapshoot. Sometimes they get me and sometimes they don’t get me for months. I’d bet there’s an occasional cross contact issue on their lines. So that’s an easy solution – stop eating the halloween candy. I should also say that I tend to be on the more sensitive side when it comes to reacting to gluten. I react to some things that most people don’t. Like vodka made from wheat. I can’t drink that, but I know most people who have gluten issues have no problem with it. So your mileage may vary, as they say..
Besides, who needs halloween candy when I’ve got these – Glutino Sans Gluten Free Chocolate Covered Wafers. The ones in the brown box. KitKat much? OMG these are sooo good. Not that I hide them from my children or anything.
This weekend I’m going to Joe’s Crab Shack with a bunch of friends. I discovered they had a lot of gluten free stuff last summer. Love it! It’s kind of downtown though, which freaks me out to drive in. I’m a suburbs kind of girl. Give me a left turn arrow light and some nice wide streets to drive my minivan through and I’ll drive anywhere. Throw a one-way street or paralell parking at me and I start getting shaky. But apparently a steampot and Pop Rocks margaritas are my currency right now. Who knew?
