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

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Ethiopian food for every meal!

Ok, that's my solution for everything.

Seriously, I know of one macrobiotic who brings suitcases full of food when he attends gaming conventions, but I don't think you'll have to go that route. While consensus may rule when choosing the dinner options, we are considerate (and enough thoughtful ATPo people know that I doubt you'll have much trouble either with having cookies forced upon you or with feeling that you're rocking the boat). (But I do need pizza twice a week or I have uncontrollable crying jags.)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Does this mean you are going to the Lake Tahoe Meet?

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, technically I'm still undecided, though I'm starting to really fret that I might miss all my friends.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Understand the indecision...struggling myself. Should hopefully come to one by the end of next week. Too discombobulated this week to decide much of anything.