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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you for the invite.  I can't eat anything spicy without it making me sick and I'm generally not a very adventurous eater, but I'd love to come.

Then you eat a light meal before going, and you sample everything that isn't spicy.  That means that you take a small taste of things, because sometimes you'll learn to like something new if you give it a chance.  My wife was not an adventurous eater when we met and my closest friends and I are foodies.  I've slowly introduced her to some new foods and styles of cooking while still respecting her aversions.  My best friend who is a serious foodie is a phenomenal cook and has also worked slowly on expanding her taste.  It's very slow, but over 14 years now, she's got a significantly expanded palate and her list of food don'ts is still pretty long (albeit much shorter than it was).  She has many of the same aversions that you have plus others.  We make sure when we go someplace like your friends that she has a light meal beforehand, she will try as much as she can within her aversions and I'll try to help her isolate some of the things she normally wouldn't try that might be safe for her to sample.  And if she's still hungry, we'll call it an early night and I'll cook her something or she'll reheat something that I've made at home that suits her taste when we get home.

Also, learn some techniques to help you compromise.  For example, my wife used to avoid mushrooms like the plague.  She wouldn't eat anything cooked with mushrooms.  Now she's learned that foods cooked with mushrooms are okay and she will eat it if there are no mushrooms visible or if they are large enough that she can eat around them (and she'll give me all of the mushrooms).  She also doesn't like sauces, but she'll serve herself something that comes in a sauce, try to lift it out and drain as much sauce as possible and then on her plate, she'll use the fork to scrape as much sauce off as she can.  She's learned that sauces in moderation (okay, correction, a slight amount of sauce, e.g. much less than moderation) can actually be quite good, but she can only take a small amount.  Sometimes she still won't like it, but she's been able to try several that she liked because she's been much more open-minded.
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