I promise I'll find a new topic of blogging soon

Eating gluten-free is not only not as hard as I thought it would be, it's actually kind of easy.  With a bit of planning.  My diet pitfalls in the past always had to do with poor planning.  Grocery shopping was done sporadically.  I'd be out of cereal and milk, so I'd stop for kolaches on my way to work.  Nothing to pack for a lunch to bring with me to work, so I'd run over to the BBQ place around the corner.  I'd stop by the grocery store on my home from work, starving, so I'd buy dinner food, plus snacks and dessert.  It was terrible.

This week, however, with a stocked kitchen and a plan for what to make, it's really a no-brainer.  My steak and mashed potatoes were delicious.  My homemade burrito bowl was almost as good as Chipotle's.  And my zucchini lasagna last night was great (except for the zucchini still being slightly crisp).  Now the only part of this whole thing I hate is ALL THE DISHES.

Thanksgiving will be tough.  It's my favorite holiday ever.  I typically bake two pies, homemade cornbread stuffing, sweet potatoes with streusel topping, corn pudding, and homemade yeast rolls.  NONE of that is gluten-free.  So this year, I'm not going to try to recreate everything, just the ones that will be simple.  I'll forgo the stuffing this year (so sad about that).  Skipping the rolls, because there's no way in hell a gluten-free yeast roll can really taste normal.  The sweet potatoes will be easy.  The only part that has flour is the topping.  The potatoes can stay buttery, brown sugary and delicious.  The topping will still have brown sugar and pecans.  It will be awesome.  I'm also doing a completely homemade green bean casserole.  Canned cream of mushroom soup, and the french fried onions, are very glutenous.  So I'm making a cream of mushroom with cornstarch in place of flour.  And scratch fried onions.  And finally, the corn pudding.  It's a family tradition.  No holiday is complete without it.  The original recipe calls for Jiffy Corn Muffin mix, creamed corn, butter/oil, eggs, onion and sharp cheddar.  I'm merely swapping the Jiffy for a gluten free cornbread mix.  Voila.  Oh, and I'm letting Whole Foods handle dessert with a G-F pumpkin pie. 

Also, day 2 of 10k training was so much easier than day 1. I went out last night and barely broke a sweat.  The stiffness and soreness is gone.  And I felt a lot faster and stronger, already.  This please me greatly.

Does anyone have any holiday recipes that are naturally gluten-free or could be easily adapted?