More Cross-contamination Tips

I had gotten a little slack with my duality* lately.  And read a good reminder post – that, for the life of me, I cannot find!  So, thank you, nameless blogger.  I got your back.

Anywho, here’s some things that need to be tossed into the dishwasher every now and then:

- cutting boards, but we all do that anyway, RIGHT?

- garbage can lids

- utensil organizer

Things to wipe down on occassion:

- all small appliances that sit on the counters

- I have decorative magnets that hold my knives on the wall, and lids.  I keep forgetting to wash them.

- cabinet handles, fridge handles, oven handles, small appliance handles

Preventative stuff that we’ve started using again:

- place mats on the table,

- tin foil EVERYWHERE, you never know.

- separate cupboards for the gluten/ non-gluten foods.

- wash pot holders and hot plates regularly

* I serve glutenous & gluten-free food from my kitchen.

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About Cathy Tibbles

In 2007 Cathy's Hubby was diagnosed with celiac disease and Strawberries Are Gluten Free was born. The early days of SAGF are chock full of all the newly converted recipes. More recently the articles are trending to cool new products, events, local news and family tales.

Comments

  1. Trish says:

    Great tips! I’m so impressed that you do both! I’m always up for hearing how it can be pulled off. (We’re both celiac at my house, so only gluten free food around here). Great blog!

    • admin says:

      There are a lot of people who seem to think that the gfree diet is a healthy lifestyle and choose to follow it. But I think if they do it strictly, they are in for a surprise! We spent a little over a year entirely gfree in our house/kitchen/etc. And it required a lot of home-made baking!! I was making bread every day – it was just exhausting!! Its either that or the store bought stuff which gets expensive for 5 people! (to say nothing about the taste! blech! )

      It must be somehow a blessing to have both of you on the same diet – you can go to the same restaurants (or mourn the loss of the same restaurants!).

      Here’s to health!
      Cathy

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  1. [...] I do not post non-gfree posts very often, but the fact of the matter is we do live in a dual-mode kitchen.  I’ve worked very hard to keep the cross contamination at bay – and in the last couple of years –  to great success.  But boy, was it a difficult learning curve. As a sidenote, I always recommend to go completely GFREE in the entire house until you figure out what you are doing, and until the celiac is not experiencing symptoms.  Then, when you bring other foods into the house, you can know right away if something isn’t staying in its own container.  See my list above of posts pertaining to “cross contamination“. [...]

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