Gluten-free is dumb.

Gluten-free is now a bad word in our house.  My kids will ask before they eat something, "is this gluten-free."  If it is, they won't eat it.  So on pancake night, I served a "gluten-free" special syrup for Zach.  It was regular maple syrup...real maple syrup as opposed to the high fructose corn syrup flavored maple that I usually serve.  Molly decided it tasted like hot peppers sauce and wouldn't eat it.  We had to have a discussion about how some things are just naturally gluten-free and that this was actual syrup.  She still wouldn't eat it.

It wasn't long after that, that Zach announced that Gluten-free is dumb.  He hates it and refuses to eat gluten-free stuff any more (and he really didn't eat for an entire day until I caved).  After three days of eating gluten, he had a headache and stomach ache.  He wakes in the morning totally stuffed up.  He tells me that all of this has been going on for the past three weeks, but he just didn't tell me.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.  And so, there was just one...