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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How far do you go to acomodate diets of people that are [b]not battling specific conditions [/b]or even obese.  I want to be welcoming/accomodating but we have the same menu every year and every one else just kind of eats it and goes back to whatever they consider healthy the next day.  WHen they visited the last time everything revovled around their food needs.  The husband and wife are on very different diets too.  They do not eat the same meals at home.  Add 1 steamed plain veggie dish and call it a day?  Or be a better person and call them to ask how best to accomodate them?  They are traveling so I can not ask them to bring anything.[/quote]
Are you certain of this? I have a gluten sensitivity that exacerbates an auto-immune disease. I won't end up in the ER, but I'll be miserable for days and have to increase my medication regimen if someone serves me gluten (which has happened). They probably won't know what happened since I'm private about my medical history.

In general, if I'm a guest and the host knows of my condition, I hope they will at least make sure I won't leave with a growling stomach (which means being able to eat more than some steamed veggies). I don't expect every dish to have a GF version, though. If you are hosting, I don't see what the issue is with asking them how you can accommodate them...especially since they are traveling and likely won't be able to get something easily when they get back to the hotel. If you don't plan to accommodate them, you should also let them know that so they can figure out an alternative. Right now you just sound judgmental and bitter than you have to host and feed these people. Don't invite them over in the future.[/quote]

NP. Why are you making up fiction? There’s no reason not to take OP at her word that they don’t have medical issues or significant food allergies or what have you. And if someone chooses to be “private” about their condition, great, but then you can’t expect your hosts to magically accommodate you. OP says in her original post that last time “everything revolved around their food needs,” so not sure why you needed to bring your gluten sensitivity and suffering-in-silence dynamics into this situation, which is entirely different and has zero to do with you.[/quote]
My point is that the guests may not have shared the medical reasons for their diets, but they may still exist. I don't think that it's a requirement that you share with your hosts why you have a specific diet. I have accommodated all kinds of diets as a host. I don't expect a medical history or not from someone's pastor to justify it.

I obviously let my hosts know I'm GF, but some people refuse to believe there could be non-celiac medical reasons to eat GF...so if they sneakily serve you gluten (which people definitely do) and you don't end up in the hospital right away, they may think it didn't do any harm. But it does for me.

OP doesn't sound like she cares to be a gracious host to these guests. Maybe they are really annoying. The point is that they are her guests. She knows they have dietary restrictions, so the obvious thing to do is ask them what would make the meal work for them. If it's not something OP is willing or able to do, she should let them know that. No matter why someone is on a restricted diet, nothing sucks worse than arriving somewhere that you can't eat a full meal without expecting it. Especially if you're traveling and not going back to your home with a stocked kitchen afterward.[/quote]

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