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My kids used to hide broccoli on this shelf beneath the kitchen table. Twas a beautiful petrified forest find years later.

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I'm sorry but I love broccoli and cauliflower, especially roasted! I even roast a whole cauliflower for our Matariki feast every year...but I understand lots of people hate these things. I hate pomegranates, persimmons, fennel, celery and coriander instead.

As someone who has been coeliac for over 20 years (and has unfortunately developed further autoimmune diseases as well) there are now about one million things I can't eat in addition to being gluten free. I love the GF and dairy free pizzas and hash sticks from Hell Pizza and have never been glutened by them. Also Kim's Kitchen in Tawa make delicious GF dumplings, bao buns and doughnuts ( and they deliver). And the best GF seed bread I have ever tasted is from Lucy's shop https://lucysglutenfree.co.nz/

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Kris! These links are golden, and I'm overjoyed to learn about Kim's Kitchen! I've learned I'm too lazy to use more than one flour at a time and my Xanthan is on the shelf, forever unopened.

Thanks to you I may be about to eat my first ever bao bun. In fact, what am I waiting for? Where are my keys? xxxx

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Haha I know, all the damn GF things I've bought and never used! My pantry is a graveyard of must-have ingredients that have not seen the light of day since they were put in there. As for mixing flours, noooooo to tapioca flour and millet flour...just buy some bread that someone else made, and make it your mission to find every GF bakery in NZ ;)

I hope you enjoy the bao bun, they are delicious xx

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My grown son will starve/cook toast rather than eat something such as stir-fry in which a brassica is included. He won't even pick out the contaminating florets of hideousness, he just casts a weary eye over the dinner bowl and reaches for the bread.

People say "oh it gets better as they age". They lie. All that happens is that you stop caring as much (and buy adult vitamins to stave off the scurvy).

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Your son and my son would get along like a burning house!

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So many laugh out loud moments - even if you are dissing some of my favourite veg. Still, I can't argue you're wrong. They can be assholes... I'm glad you've found your forever tart, Leah. Life is looking up!

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It truly is! x

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