{"id":11219,"date":"2014-02-22T00:05:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=11219"},"modified":"2014-02-22T00:10:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T06:10:11","slug":"cravings-gluten-free-bakery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=11219","title":{"rendered":"Cravings Gluten Free Bakery"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I joined Adventurous Babes Society last year<\/a>, I had no idea it would actually lead to adventures and meeting cool women. Mostly I joined because I wanted to get one of the cool purple t-shirts (they are very high quality, by the way) and that’s the only way to get one. Actually, my friend Ethel told me about it and I’m impressionable and impulsive and will join anything that sounds like a good idea so I did. <\/p>\n

It’s a lot like what happened with Zumba. I became a ZIN member to get discounts on Zumba gear. LOL. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I’d been sitting on my membership for months now and hadn’t actually participated on an adventure until recently. Normally, I’m not able to attend events because I’m either at work or working out or teaching Zumba. The other day I happened to see that one of the other ABS members couldn’t make one of the adventures so she was giving up her ticket. It worked out perfect because I was on a brief break from working out because I fell ill (quite suddenly) on Wednesday. And as suddenly as it had come, it was gone. Literally, I had 100 degree fever one day and was back to 97.6 temp within 24 hours. I didn’t want to miss any work though, so I suspect that I just willed myself well. Mind over matter, so to speak. <\/p>\n

I wasn’t taking any chances, though. My plan was to lay off working out Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday so I could be well enough to teach my Zumba classes on Saturday. The doctor, who just happened to be checking my ankle on Thursday afternoon, agreed it was a good plan. <\/p>\n

I spent a lot of time waiting around in the examination room so that’s when I found out that there was a seat available at the Death by Chocolate<\/a> preview adventure. Death by Chocolate is an annual fundraising event at the Exploration Place. As with most adventures, I wanted to do this one but I didn’t sign up because I would normally be at Zumba on Thursday night. As luck would have it, the stars aligned. I was off workouts and a seat happened to become available. I found myself at my very first ABS adventure, just like that. This was a great one to start off with too because it didn’t require any physical activity. LOL.<\/p>\n

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All we had to do was sample these delicious gluten free confections by Cravings Gluten Free Bakery<\/a> and provide feedback in preparation for their participation in Death by Chocolate. Such hard work, I know!<\/p>\n

Everything you see in the photo above was gluten free. That’s not the amazing part. The amazing part is that everything was delicious! I usually don’t have high expectations for gluten free foods, but you couldn’t tell these creations were gluten free at all. In fact, it was hard for me to pick a favorite because everything tasted great. When we went around to tell the group what we liked best, I picked one of the cake balls with pop rocks because all of the items equally tasted good to me and I’d never had pop rocks before. I was so amused by the sounds they made as I was eating them. Oh, and I picked the white cake balls instead of the dark ones because they made louder popping sounds as I was eating them. I didn’t want to tell everyone that I’d never had pop rocks before, though. I didn’t want them to think I was silly. Everyone has tried pop rocks before. Well, everyone except me it seemed. Until last night, of course.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I had a wonderful time tasting some delicious gluten free goodies and meeting some truly amazing women. I can’t believe I waited so long to join an adventure. I’m thinking now that I really need to make time and squeeze more adventures into my busy schedule. My next one is the Let’s Dance adventure on March 9. I am so looking forward to attending!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Death by Chocolate is on March 8. Best of luck to the Cravings team. I hope you guys win!<\/p>\n

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For more information about the Adventurous Babes Society<\/a> and to join, simply visit their web site. Use Ching Brubaker as a referral and I get a free baseball cap after three new members! You don’t know what you’re missing out on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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