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Apparently my son’s gluten free diet is not going as well as I thought…

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We switched 10-year-old Noah to a gluten free diet in October to help with his ADHD (in addition to being preservative free and dye free). There have definitely been some struggles and a learning curve as we find new foods he likes, recipes for things like hamburger buns etc. He has hard days where he’s tempted to eat the leftovers his friends are all to willing to share with him in the lunchroom. But overall I thought we were doing pretty well. Then today I found this in his school folder… (translation is below if you can’t read it)

I laughed so hard. Glad to know he thinks so highly of my cooking skills.

Here’s the typed version…

I hate my diet for  many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many reasons. First off it keeps me from having a lot of my favorite foods. I’d list them and the other foods I like that I can’t eat but that take a year or two. Second of all most of the food I can eat is disgusting because usually it has to be homemade. And last but not least, one of the hardest parts of a diet, the sweets. They are limited & I mean limited! There is only one kidn of candy I can have Hershey’s & Hershey’s Kisses. And dessert is probably the hardest part of anything my diet could throw at me. No kid (except my little sister Natalie) should have to go through dessert choices as limited as mine (my sister Natalie could go with no sugar at all. From the way she acts at night you’d think she’d eaten nothing but pure sugar all her life! So that’s why I HATE MY DIET!!!!!!!!

I love how he throws his sister under the bus. And the excessive use of the word “many”.

And for the record Hershey’s are not the only candy he can have, it is the only one he likes.

Comments

  1. He gave very good reasons though…..10 year old’s…aren’t they funny…they are very good at throwing others under the bus.

  2. THis is the best thing I have ever seen!!! Julie I think he may over take you in his ability to put his thoughts on paper! LOVE THIS!!!! TEll Noah Kristen is thoroughly impressed!

  3. Do we need to have another baking day to try out new recipes? = ) May not help, I know but an option…I am sure it is hard for kids his age to do this…I cracked up when he said that about Natalie…typical sibling…= )

  4. This is great! Kids are so brutally honest. Glad he was so passionate and did a great job on his assignment!

  5. Oh my goodness! I am dying laughing… he just cracks me up. I love how many times he used the word many. What a way to back up his opinion, huh? Who knew he felt so strongly about the diet. From what I’ve seen, he seemed to be fine with it. This is too funny!!

  10. By the way, I keep meaning to tell you that I have a tortilla press that works really well. If you ever want to borrow it to get the tortillas thinner, maybe that would help a little. Let me know…

  11. What amazes me is how “disgusting” “homemade” food is in his opinion. I thought we were in a society where a homemade food was sought after!! And I really do love his dig at his little sister Natalie. That was priceless!!!

  12. He wrote it in the hopes you would read it. I’ve been a victim of that scheme too!

    And, to put it over the top, his teacher commended him. Nice. 🙂

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