Sympathy - am coeliac, DH just glutened my dinner!

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Was really looking forward all day to 2nd night of the yummy homemade turkey chili with beans and corn and butternut squash and chipotle in it. Went downstairs after long stressful day of working very early then taking over the kids and DH has used the gluteny pasta spoon to stir the chili several times.

I know I have lockdown rage but seriously i could cry! I was going to make myself nachos as I never normally get to eat them (don’t trust them to be properly gf in a restaurant).

Wahhhhhh!

I would not know the cross-contamination from a spoon would be that high but if your DH knows that then he was being very unreasonable and I can feel your pain.

P.s - that sounds scrummy!! Do you have the recipe please?

Anyway this brings a slightly new meaning to the MN term "spoonyfucker" (original meaning a dh who interferes with your cooking).

Yes I can easily see that happening under those circumstances. So far we have been ok and fortunately have been able to source gf flour as I do draw the line at having lose glutinous flour floating around. We used to get normal flour in for food tech but I can't handle it at all as even airborne stuff sets me off and DH and the dc were too messy tidying up if they measured it. For dc2 we therefore sent gf stuff but the school insisted on following their recipe. For dc3 I am just going to put my foot down and send an equivalent gf recipe. Not that I would risk eating something made in food tech but it would be nice if it was vaguely edible for someone.

We only have GF flour in this house. The cross contamination from normal flour seems too difficult to avoid.

We have colour coded spoons and chopping boards. Separate toasters and packs of butter/jars of jam etc.

And I’m really careful about not glutening anyone. DS is really sensitive so I have to be.

Oh no, you have my sympathy. I'm coeliac and DP isn't. He's very good at avoiding cross contamination but if he messed up one of my meals I think I'd cry! Fortunately, I do all the cooking...he does the washing up.

Loads of people are saying he's totally unreasonable.

I really really feel your pain. But I'm now suffering the behaviour consequences of accidentally glutening my coeliac child two days ago. We're very shit hot in it but unfortunately it happened. I'm really upset but can't kick myself too much - it was accidental.

I am gutted for you though

Well, the rage is justified simply for having pasta with chilli!

Fellow coeliac here. We don't have anything but gf food in the house. No 'normal' pasta only gf pasta. I would suggest you do that going forward OP. My wife is fine with it. When it's hot it tastes pretty much the same.

One a side note the number of times people come to our house and ask to put non gf food in the oven / hob / microwave / bbq makes my blood boil. All our pans are off limits to that poison. Lol