Nephew with celiac - what is fair/appropriate when visiting grandma?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We eat Italian or French bread or dinner rolls pretty much every night. We also have regular pasta at least once a week. Gluten/carbs are not bad for you if you are not trying to lose weight. We are all thin. We eat tons of fresh fruits and vegetables too.

Fluffy gluten-ous white bread is delicious!!

O...K?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ah, yes. Because family,including a newborn, is there it's going to be miserable so give them both kitchens. Weird.

Two things:

1) "Festive vacation" food for all snacks/meals for 5+ days? My kids eat healthy food on vacation, with some special treats like ice cream and hot dogs and chips and fruit leather thrown in here and there. Which is exactly what the PP posted in her menu. Do you really go into "full vacation mode" for all meals and snacks with young kids while you are on vacation? How odd. What do they eat, sugary cereal every morning? Burgers and fries and sodas at every dinner? Blech! They must feel awful when they get back home.

2) No, it will not be a "miserable trip" just because family is there. But it's not a wheels-up vacation, if you know what I mean. There are a lot of potentially great things about this trip for OP and her family: time with each other, time with their extended family, lots of opportunity to play outdoors, and yes! Special food like ice cream and Pirate's Booty, which can be enjoyed by ALL the kids. And yes, great dinners could be had by all--if you don't think BBQ chicken, corn on the cob, cucumber salad, fresh tomatoes with salt and basil and a Fudgsicle sounds like a good dinner for all ages, then you are probably overly addicted to processed carbs. OP should enjoy all the great things about this trip, eat some good GF food, and be a wonderful aunt/DIL/SIL by being flexible and putting the family with the newborn and the toddler with a tough food allergy first.

I don't know why you would equate "festive" or special food with garbage like fast food and fries. I'm European and never eat any of that junk. The posted menu was like nursing home food.

[Anonymous]

Why would it be dangerous for the child if the guest cabin kitchen had standard food? Makes no sense at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ah, yes. Because family,including a newborn, is there it's going to be miserable so give them both kitchens. Weird.

Two things:

1) "Festive vacation" food for all snacks/meals for 5+ days? My kids eat healthy food on vacation, with some special treats like ice cream and hot dogs and chips and fruit leather thrown in here and there. Which is exactly what the PP posted in her menu. Do you really go into "full vacation mode" for all meals and snacks with young kids while you are on vacation? How odd. What do they eat, sugary cereal every morning? Burgers and fries and sodas at every dinner? Blech! They must feel awful when they get back home.

2) No, it will not be a "miserable trip" just because family is there. But it's not a wheels-up vacation, if you know what I mean. There are a lot of potentially great things about this trip for OP and her family: time with each other, time with their extended family, lots of opportunity to play outdoors, and yes! Special food like ice cream and Pirate's Booty, which can be enjoyed by ALL the kids. And yes, great dinners could be had by all--if you don't think BBQ chicken, corn on the cob, cucumber salad, fresh tomatoes with salt and basil and a Fudgsicle sounds like a good dinner for all ages, then you are probably overly addicted to processed carbs. OP should enjoy all the great things about this trip, eat some good GF food, and be a wonderful aunt/DIL/SIL by being flexible and putting the family with the newborn and the toddler with a tough food allergy first.

I don't know why you would equate "festive" or special food with garbage like fast food and fries. I'm European and never eat any of that junk. The posted menu was like nursing home food.

Roast chicken is yummy. They don't serve Pirate's Booty at any nursing home I know of. Ice cream is festive; how is it not a special, fun treat? Fruit in summer is always wonderful. Tortilla chips and salsa, yes, please. What, exactly, about that menu was not pleasing for summer? Was it the chips and hot dogs, or was it the summery corn on the cob?

[Anonymous]

You can't go gluten free for a week? That is a problem!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can't go gluten free for a week? That is a problem!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can't go gluten free for a week? That is a problem!

Give me a break.
Anyone can go gluten free for a week ,but to spring it on someone who does not usually eat that way, whose kids do not eat that way and tell them that they have t research, learn and have to be extra diligent about being gluten free -- it's too much. I would not want to spend my vacation having to change my entire diet, having to change my kids diet. Being on vacation means doing what is easy.
The in-laws are being inconsiderate to take both kitchens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't go gluten free for a week? That is a problem!

Give me a break.
Anyone can go gluten free for a week ,but to spring it on someone who does not usually eat that way, whose kids do not eat that way and tell them that they have t research, learn and have to be extra diligent about being gluten free -- it's too much. I would not want to spend my vacation having to change my entire diet, having to change my kids diet. Being on vacation means doing what is easy.
The in-laws are being inconsiderate to take both kitchens.

They discussed it weeks and weeks in advance. About 20 minutes of Googling and thinking about what your kids like to eat can result in a 5-day, gluten-free menu plan. For real.

[Anonymous]

even cheerios are now gluten free. this is not hard people. smoothies, tacos...

[Anonymous]

Need an update from OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't go gluten free for a week? That is a problem!

Give me a break.
Anyone can go gluten free for a week ,but to spring it on someone who does not usually eat that way, whose kids do not eat that way and tell them that they have t research, learn and have to be extra diligent about being gluten free -- it's too much. I would not want to spend my vacation having to change my entire diet, having to change my kids diet. Being on vacation means doing what is easy.
The in-laws are being inconsiderate to take both kitchens.

Agreed. Your weird food situation, your obligation to work around everyone else. OP should be able to come and go wherever she wants with whatever food she wants. And it's completely ignorant to expect everyone else to bend to the person/family with the issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would it be dangerous for the child if the guest cabin kitchen had standard food? Makes no sense at all.

Because the cabin is probably a single room, so the child is sleeping in the kitchen with the gluten, and more likely to get into it.

[Anonymous]

Then why have him there? And if that's his kitchen, why not make the other kitchen standard? They sound high maintenance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:even cheerios are now gluten free. this is not hard people. smoothies, tacos...

+1 All of the Cheerios flavors, and readily available in Target.

[Anonymous]

I have celiac so o e one hand I get it. But on the other, it's hardly fair for one family to have both kitchens. Some people go overboard for no reason. I helped another mom with celiac serve a team dinner at her home and she went apeshit when I used a silicone potholder to take a pan of rolls out of the oven. Apparently she had seperate everything, including potholders.