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[quote=Anonymous]At Thanksgiving, one of the guests (teen) in attendance had a bunch of food allergies. The kid's mom kept setting up the buffet line with only foods that her kid could eat. She wanted the foods with the offending ingredients to stay in the kitchen instead of on the serving table. We'd move the platters to the buffet line, where we thought they belonged, and she'd move them back again until someone finally realized what was going on and at that point she explained what she was doing and why.

Is this normal procedure when there's someone present with food allergies? I've never had this happen at a group dinner before, even though I have other friends with allergies. In fact, we have one very close friend who does sleepovers and she has severe allergies to lots of things. Usually, our friends with allergies just ask lots of questions about which dishes are gluten free or nut fee and only take from those dishes that are safe for them. They don't expect everyone else to have to go to another room to get the "good" food that has the dairy or pecans or other special ingredients that people are looking forward to eating for the holiday.

Have I been doing it wrong all this time, or was this mom the one who was asking too much of the hosts and guests? Is everyone else supposed to be inconvenienced for one person? Couldn't the mom have just made the kid's plate and served it directly to them or is it rude to expect this of them? With our other friend whose kid has allergies, the little girl has learned to ask the right questions about foods and protect herself, and she's a couple of years younger than the Thanksgiving guest. By senior year of high school, shouldn't kids know how to do this for themselves? This kid is presumably going to leave for college in a year and needs to be able to figure this out on their own.

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