You will not be able to avoid gluten 100%
It’s inevitable. Throughout your life, you will be gluten-ized, no matter how hard you try. My friends Doctor told her that no matter how hard she tries to avoid gluten, some way or another and unintentionally you WILL consume gluten over the span of your lifetime. We are talking about contamination and that is bound to happen.
Think about. Unless you are a complete hermit you touch surfaces that have been touched by others who have not washed their hands after eating gluten (though in a lot of cases, gluten would be the least of my worries if they aren’t washing their hands). Think about shopping cart handles (Costco samples anyone?), escalator rails, rental cars, money, ATMs, door handles and on and on we go. Someone spills some floor on a conveyor belt at the grocery checkout link and therefore it gets on your food packaging, which in turn gets on your clothes. You may shake hands with folks, browse in the bookstore.

You can really freak yourself out if you dwell on this too much though. Though I really don’t think it’s possible to avoid gluten for the rest of your life (at least 100%), I do think we can all give it a heck of a try. In our kitchen, we don’t allow anything that has gluten in it. We eat a lot of nuts, fruits, meats. What we eat is very similar to the paleolithic diet. No grains and especially no processed foods. Well, that was before we decided to buy a gluten free bread machine. I just couldn’t stay away from bread forever and the store bought stuff was expensive and not very tasty.
I mean, that’s what it comes down to. We can live a (relatively) gluten-free life; we just have to have control. When you go out to eat there is less control. Sure, we have a few ‘safe’ places to go, but sometimes we have to pay for our risks when a waitress doesn’t really know that the food you are eating does, in fact, contain gluten. And then 3 days later you stay inside all day from a migraine headache.
What I’m trying to say is that you can have your (gluten-free) cake and eat it too, but you just have to be careful about it and accept that there are risks.
Have you ever been “gluten-ized” when you thought you took every single precaution? Leave a comment below and let us know!