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[quote=Anonymous]   After seeing the thread about the person angry to be asked if there would be vegetarian pizza or if she should bring her own food, I realized this sort of thing is why we changed our holiday traditions. One of our kids has Celiac. She becomes quite ill from gluten. We were always happy to bring our own food, but that seems to offend some people. One relative who insists on hosting every Thanksgiving and is an amazing cook would tell us she will accommodate and insist we don't need to bring anything and then would be so annoyed when we checked what was safe. The times we brought just in case food for our daughter she was annoyed. A few people went gluten free for other reasons which helped, but gluten did not make them violently ill like it did with our daughter. Our last visit there, the signs for gluten free and regular rolls likely got reversed. She insisted we not bring our own food and our daughter ended needing a hospital visit because she was so ill. We were done. It has been much easier and lower stress. No more eye rolls. No more risking offending someone bringing food or offending someone by asking. We will only the people who don't get it for non-food related activities.

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