Waldo Pizza-Gluten Free Menu

One of our favorite local pizza places, Waldo Pizza in Waldo, has a huge gluten free menu; sandwiches, bread sticks, pizzas and even desserts!  They have gluten free pizza crusts and also gluten free and vegan (no dairy or egg) crusts along with vegan cheese! So perfect for my son Mac who is Gluten and Casein free. 

What goes better with pizza than beer? They carry at least three different gluten free beers and one of my favorites is Greens Discovery Amber!!!  Thanks Waldo Pizza!

http://www.waldopizza.net/menus/glutenfree.html

Jazz-Gluten Free Menu

 Jazz a Louisiana Kitchen has a Gluten Free Menu! I went there last week and had the Cajun Stir Fry with Chicken, Shrimp and Beef and a side of new potatoes. It usually comes with rice but the rice must have a roux or something in it as it was not gluten free. Try it out!
http://www.jazzkitchen.com/

Blue Koi

Blue Koi has two KC locations, Leawood and Kansas City. They have an allergy menu that list menu items that are or can be gluten free. Also list items that are or can be peanut free.

I had the house salad and the chicken lettuce wraps!  Yum! Just ask for their Gluten Free menu!

http://www.bluekoi.net/

Kansas City Restaurants with Gluten Free Options

I am going to start posting Kansas City restaurants that have either Gluten Free Menus, items or options!  There are some great places to go!

Welcome To Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel.  It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy.  You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum.  The Michelangelo David.  The gondolas in Venice.  You may learn some handy phrases in Italian.  It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives.  You pack your bags and off you go.  Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy!  I'm supposed to be in Italy.  All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan.  They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease.  It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language.  And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It’s just a different place.  It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy.  But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips.  Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there.  And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever  go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

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©1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved.  Reprinted by permission of the author.