The Gluti Girls...

Day six in San Diego

Most of these posts I make while traveling are not going to be very wordy or well written. I am just to tired at the end of the day to think much. But I do want to post what we are eating in hopes it will help someone else when they get ready to travel. 

This morning we took Grace (the dog child) shopping. There are some really cute dog shops around here. She got a new harness and some toys picked out for those left at home. Lunch was a letwich. That's my new name for a lettuce sandwich. Or as Ed in the band calls it, a sam-itch. Anyway, I made a letwich.

   

After lunch the girls and I walked down the street to the Del Mar Farmer's market. They have it every Saturday. They had everything from flowers to fresh fish. We got some really nice fruit and some home grown tomatoes.

 

And, they had Italian ice!

We got cherry. 

Oh yeah, it was good.  

Dinner was pesto chicken (made in the toaster oven), pre-cooked rice from Trader Joe's, frozen green beans, tomatoes from the farmers market and some fresh fruit.  

Yummmm My heart medicine :) Or, as my husband calls it, soda pop. It's another band thing. Bandisums (stuff the band makes up). When we get together we all come up with weird stuff to call things. But he doesn't pronounce it like soda pop, he says sew dee pop. For those of you I have totally confused....it's just a glass of wine. In my traveling plastic wine glass!

Dinner tonight

Steve has gone off to a baseball game.  I'm not a big baseball fan.  I'm having dinner in the hotel.  I'm glad.  It's quiet and nice to not have to be anywhere.  Just us girls. It was the perfect day today.  We drove up to Encinitas.  We took the 101 scenic highway and the view is just beautiful.  Along the way we stopped to shop here and there.  We found a Trader Joe's and Henry's.  Both have a nice selection of gluten free food. For dinner tonight, I made a bowl of cucumbers, feta and artichoke hearts.

Also, a grilled cheese, chips and some fruit  

This time, the bread was gluten free!  

I found a treat at Trader Joe's.  Gluten Free frozen peanut butter cookie dough.  

Six of them fit perfectly on the tray that came with the toaster oven.  

They were pretty good!

Products that say wheat free....not gluten free

Wow, I knew this, really I did!  Or I thought I did.  Just because a product is wheat free, does not make it gluten free.  I'm blaming it on jet lag.

 For those of you who did not read the post below, I went shopping the other night and bought a "wheat free" bread.  Mind you, I had been up since 3:00am our time and it was 8:00pm our time when I was doing the shopping.  I was pretty much brain dead.  But I should have know this.  

For some reason I thought kamut was gluten free too. Right after I posted a picture of the bread, both Food Goody and Cassandra told me it was not gluten free.  Thank you so much for looking out for me!  I had not felt good all day and I kept telling everyone it must be the 3rd day blahs.  It was the 3rd day of our trip.  It was the bread. I feel ok today.  And the bread is in the trash.  Some products can be so misleading.  You really must look for it to say, gluten free on the label.  Lesson learned. Today I went to Henry's and bought 3 bags of Chebe.  We'll make that in our toaster oven.  I know that's gluten free!

We've made it to San Diego!

I've been trying to post for two days, but the internet in our room hasn't been working right. I even had a post all written out that somehow got lost. Blah! But we're here and the weather is beautiful! Who could ask for more. The band has gotten in two days worth of shows so far. 

The first day we got here I found out we did not have an oven in our room after all. After getting settled in our room, we headed off to Red Robin for some dinner. They do not have a gluten free menu, but had a binder with all the allergy information in it so I could make a good choice. Then it was off to Jimbo's natural food market and Von's for some groceries. Jimbo's had some fresh gluten free baked goods in their bakery. Oh how I wish we had this at home! We stopped at Long's Drug store and I found a small toaster oven. Here's our kitchen and the toaster oven.  

Miss Kati making some breakfast....  

Edit....I had a picture of some bread I bought thinking it was gluten free.  It was wheat free, not gluten free.  It contained Kamut.  I thought that was ok.  It is NOT.  Hopefully some of you will learn from my mistake too.  Yuk. 

Last night I made dinner in our room. The oven fit four potatoes perfectly and did a great job at baking them. After they were done, I put some fresh asparagus on the tray that came with the oven and roasted it. I cooked the salmon in my skillet with a little olive oil, dried rosemary, salt and pepper. It really tasted good to have a safe meal!

Off for a nap now. Stay tuned for more cooking adventures in San Diego!

All packed and ready to go

Tomorrow, we will be in San Diego.  I have been packing for 3 days!  I am really getting excited. I just found out our hotel room should have an oven with a two burner stove.  I previously thought it would just have the stove.  There will be a lot more things we can cook with an oven!  I also got on Amazon.com and ordered a $13.00 toaster.  I have had it delivered to the hotel.  Last year I bought toast bags and that cost me $15.00.  We used them so much they got holes in them.  This year it made more sense to just get a toaster.   Kati loves her bagels. 

We will have a 3 hour layover tomorrow.  I am packing our lunch in our bento boxes to ensure we will have something safe to eat.  I am making us some chebe sandwiches.  Our flight leaves at 7:00 am.  We will be leaving our house very early in the morning.  We are traveling with about 15 people.  

With that many people and that much luggage and large instruments, we have to get there earlier than most people would to check in. I have all my food ready to be assembled in the morning.  We are making veggie sandwiches.  My chebe is baked, cooled and sliced.  I chopped some green peppers, onions, and cucumbers for our sandwiches.  I also have hummus and goat cheese ready so I can quickly assemble them and put them in the bentos.  I have also boiled and peeled some eggs.  I have bagged edemame in the freezer that I can pull out and put around the bentos to keep them cold.  And, my mom gave me a couple gluten free brownies :)  Thanks mom! 

I have also packed my stainless steel skillet.  I worried that the hotel might have a non-stick skillet.  Hopefully most of you know not to cook in a non-stick skillet that has had gluten cooked in it before.  Somehow it holds on to the gluten.  Same thing with wooden utensils.  So to be safe, I will have my own skillet.  I also am taking dried garlic, rosemary, salt and pepper.  I can buy everything else I need there. 

We are taking one of our dogs with us.  Grace is the lucky one.  She is the one who likes to go places.  We have a flight bag that she has to be in.  She goes with us right on the plane and sits under the seat in front of us.  She knew when we got the bag out she was going to get to go.  She has been sitting by it for days!  I finally had to put it back in the closet to get her mind off of it!  Silly girl.  Last year she didn't get to go and I think she wants to make sure she doesn't miss out this time. Pray for good flights for us and maybe I'll have some pictures next post!