Ah...how to deal with this??

[shadowkat]

As many of you know - if you've read my lj for the last five or six months, I am gluten-sensitive. This means I cannot eat anything with gluten in it. Gluten = wheat, barely, oats, kamut, spelt, and millet. Also be careful of buckwheat (cross-contamination), oats is controversial.

Here's the problem...I'm considering doing a couple of things that involve lots of activities around food and with people who love to eat foods high in glutens: BBQ sauce, pancakes, pizza, cakes, cookies, brownies, most creative chocolates/candybars, pies, bread, sandwiches, bagels, muffins, smores, beer, some wines (not all, most are fine - particularly California wines are fine), crackers...and some ice creams. Both trips will be in environments where my choices are going to be limited. They group decides. Money is a factor. And one takes place at a conference in a Holiday Inn.

I don't know what to do? Do I bring food with me? I don't want to be an inconvenience or put people out. This has been my fear from the beginning. I *hate* being a bother or a pest. I *hate* being noticed. I'm the sort who goes along with what the group wants to eat - yay democracy. This diet makes that impossible. I will get sick.

Help???

Comments

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

If you're worried about the Tahoe trip, I don't think anyone will feel inconvenienced by your dietary needs. I'm sure there are others who have dietary issues (I know anom is a strict vegetarian, for example). If you stay in one of the cabins (which are actually houses) there are kitchens, so you can buy what you want for breakfast etc. Don't fret, we can work around your needs so you don't get sick, I'm sure.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

And even if you end up not staying in one of the cabins I, for one, would certainly let you use the kitchen, and I believe there are groceries in the vicinity.

As Jane says, we'd work something out and think nothing of it.