Need to feed 11 gluten-eaters I don't know very well - HELP!

celiacmaine-iac · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 668 Location: Maine

Good luck Colleen! And most important....HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!

Steph

aklap · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 8512 Location: WI, USA

C, it's 6:23 by you, I see you are on. Bunco can't be done already?!?!
Smile

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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

cruelshoes · Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 2506 Location: Washington State

It started at 6:30. I am trying not to have a nervous breakdown. Wink

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-Colleen
Dx 8/05 via bloodwork/biopsy
10-YO son Dx 11/05 via bloodwork/biopsy
Daughters (12 and 2) have neg. bloodwork

A woman is like a tea bag-you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt

aklap · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 8512 Location: WI, USA

Ahhhh I see.

Relax...
Breath...

It'll all be fine! Everyone will love the food and your sparkling conversation Smile

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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

cruelshoes · Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 2506 Location: Washington State

Sorry I didn't post back until this morning. By the time everyone left last night I was so exhausted I just put the kids in bed and then turned in myself.

Thanks to everyone for the support on surviving bunco night. Due to time and financial constraints, the menu had to change just before the event. We are flat broke, and I had to rely more heavily on my food storage than I had originally anticipated. So here was the final menu:

Dinner
Taco Soup - double batch in the crock pot in the morning, and it cooked all day
Corn muffins
Green salad with GF dressings
Waldorf salad (My mom's recipe - I am going to post it over in the recipe section)
Soda
Ice water

Table munchies
Planters mixed nuts
M&M's

Dessert
Linda's "free of lots" brownies - got several nice compliments about these
Vanilla ice cream
Coffee
Herbal Tea assortment

I think everyone liked the food, and I saw several people go back for seconds. I dd not mention that anything was GF, and nobody seemed to care.

We were 3 players short, so there only turned out to be 9 people including me. In a bit of good news, my score was the worst of the night, so I ended up winning the booby prize. Very Happy

I am sooo glad I only have to do that once a year. Just trying to clean the house with the 3 kids following around behind me messing it up is stressful enough! Laughing

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-Colleen
Dx 8/05 via bloodwork/biopsy
10-YO son Dx 11/05 via bloodwork/biopsy
Daughters (12 and 2) have neg. bloodwork

A woman is like a tea bag-you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt

ostrich · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 4143 Location: Nebraska

WOOT, you survived! Man, if you can come up with that kind of spread while "flat broke", I'd love to see what you can do with a pile of cash. Shocked

Everybody had fun, loved the food, and you didn't get sick. Sounds like a success to me!
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aklap · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 8512 Location: WI, USA

Going back for seconds...sounds like a success to me!!

Well done C!
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

celiacmaine-iac · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 668 Location: Maine

Colleen, So glad it went well!

cruelshoes · Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 2506 Location: Washington State

celiacmaine-iac · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 668 Location: Maine

Well, money is always good. More is better, though!

I thought maybe it was a joke type gift. I used to know a lady who was a "red-hatter". She had an outrageous sense of humor. She had to buy a gift for a fellow red-hatter for a drawing. She bought a purple thong and a red lightbulb! Would have loved to be a fly on the wall when that lady opened that! Embarassed

For those of you who don't know what the Red Hat Society is, it's a group for women over 50. They wear red hats, and purple dresses to the meetings. The group is loosely patterned on this wonderful poem. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/warning/
You can join if you are under 50, but you have to wear pink and lavender. I guess they have a lot of fun. I haven't joined, but I do qualify as a "lady of a certain age!"

Steph