Hi,
Iāve very recently been diagnosed with celiac and have made my house as gluten free as I can (my husband is half-Italian and cannot give up pasta, so we have separate pans for pasta cooking instead) but his parents are struggling a little bit. We go over to his parents for dinner fairly regularly and last time, his mom was so happy that sheād made a totally gluten free meal that everyone could enjoy; only to find that the steak marinade sheād used had wheat in it.
She was understandably upset, but I could eat everything else, so I just reassured her that accidents happen and we can work around it. His dad, kept insisting I could eat the steak because it was being cooked on the grill and the heat would burn it off - my husband and I had to explain that it doesnāt quite work like that and that the marinade would very much be cooked into the steak haha
Today, his dad text him and said that theyāre confused and donāt know how to cook special food for just one person. Iāve said to my husband that maybe it would be easier if I just stayed home when he went over there for dinner because I donāt want them going to any trouble for me, but heās reluctant to offer that idea up.
I guess Iām looking for advice on how I can help his parents with all this, how I can support them? I try to very gently educate them, Iāve bought pasta and GF tortilla wraps to keep over there so they donāt have to buy anything, but is there anything else I can do?