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

Forum Index » Family Relationships

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

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound like my SIL, OP. My children have multiple allergies, including gluten and dairy. My SIL showed up at every single family gathering with a food that my child could not eat. She'd always say, "Oh, Larla can't eat the BUTTER on the green beans?" Everyone else respected my DC's allergies and brought food she could eat. But my SIL always wanted her kids "favorites."

My child could die if she eats certain foods. Everyone in the family understands and respects this, except for SIL., who found it a total PITA to bring an allergen-free food to a family holiday celebration.

My entire family eats GF foods. There are lots that are fine. [b]They are indistinguishable from wheat-based foods: breads, pasta, cookies, cakes, etc. 
[/b]
As a PP said, it's really difficult to feed a child with multiple allergies. Be grateful you only have to feed your children GF foods for a few days. You have it easy, OP. Gratitude is the key to happiness. [/quote]

Wishful thinking and/or lies.

Nutritionally, also much, much worse than their wheat based counterparts as well. [/quote]

Not this PP.  and while I agree that most GF *substitutes* are kinda crap, there are LOTS of delicious and naturally GF foods.  Sometimes you have to work harder to ensure they are GF because of processing reasons (for example getting GF oats rather than Quaker Oats because oats can easily get contaminated with wheat during processing) but it's not like a GF diet condemns you to a life of unpalatable food. For example a meal of filet mignon and roasted vegetable followed by flourless chocolate cake - GF and delicious.  I could go on and on.

Yes it was a difficult transition to GF because so many of our regular foods contained gluten and all of a sudden I had to spend a lot more mental energy thinking about meals. So I get where OP is coming from, especially with small kids.  But this attitude that eating GF is somehow a sentence to sub-par meals is just wrong.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics