Food Allergies and diet
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If none of the above appeals to you, hire a private chef or cook who can cater to your dietary needs.11
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The emphasis on home cooking is not to tie you to the kitchen but to control the ingredients due to your life threatening allergies.
The ready made food industry is not geared to satisfy your preferences.
Restaurants can try and keep their ingredients separate to cater to individual preferences, but they will never be vigilant enough.
This leaves controlling the ingredients and cooking at home. It doesn’t have to be you. You have resources to hire out and you have enterprising cooks in your own home.
If you want to do this grouchy, that’s on you.10 -
Aside from the fact that home cooked meals - ideally made as a family - will be healthier for everyone in the household, what about the very real message you are currently sending your children?? Will it be ok for your kids to refuse to do homework because it is too hard? Will they be allowed to start & quit sports or music or student council because they hit a bump in the road? Dropping out of high school has to be easier than having to work hard or trying tutoring or developing new study skills...
Your children are watching & waiting for your example of how to tackle the challenges ahead!!
That is quite the leap... I have accepted many challenges. One being buying foreclosures, fixing them and selling them by myself. I have always been a lower income single mom, but have put myself in a position that we live in a beautiful large house in an excellent area. I just put my teen on a plane to go to Italy. We belong to a country club. I an afford to eat out....We don’t live the normal single mom lifestyle. That was my how I chose to focus my energy. But you sit home and cook if that’s the lesson you want to give your kids. My son wants to own a Lamborghini at some point. He knows with hard work, he can achieve that goal.
Doesn't the chef at the country club cater to your dietary needs? If so, just eat there. If not, find a new country club.14 -
Eating popcorn that I popped myself.18
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If none of the above appeals to you, hire a private chef or cook who can cater to your dietary needs.
This is exactly what I was going to say. You made a point out of saying how much discretionary income you have, so direct some of those funds towards hiring a private chef who can prepare your meals.4 -
The emphasis on home cooking is not to tie you to the kitchen but to control the ingredients due to your life threatening allergies.
The ready made food industry is not geared to satisfy your preferences.
Restaurants can try and keep their ingredients separate to cater to individual preferences, but they will never be vigilant enough.
This leaves controlling the ingredients and cooking at home. It doesn’t have to be you. You have resources to hire out and you have enterprising cooks in your own home.
If you want to do this grouchy, that’s on you.
That's what I keep coming back to. I'm shocked that someone with legitimate life-threatening allergies would feel *safe* eating all of their food prepared outside the home.
Feel too good to cook? Fine. Hire a personal chef. There are lots of people who are happy to take money from people who think that earning means they have to spend it. And they'll be better about it than takeout restaurants who can't guarantee safe-from-cross-contamination spaces.10 -
I'm not sure why you are so adverse to cooking. You can have everything you want if you cook it. It's also strange to me that you are intentionally further restricting your diet because you won't cook and are "picky." I think you need to take a hard, honest look at yourself and decide whether or not you are happy spending hours wandering around the store looking for sweets or hours on MFP defending your decisions.7
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collectingblues wrote: »The emphasis on home cooking is not to tie you to the kitchen but to control the ingredients due to your life threatening allergies.
The ready made food industry is not geared to satisfy your preferences.
Restaurants can try and keep their ingredients separate to cater to individual preferences, but they will never be vigilant enough.
This leaves controlling the ingredients and cooking at home. It doesn’t have to be you. You have resources to hire out and you have enterprising cooks in your own home.
If you want to do this grouchy, that’s on you.
That's what I keep coming back to. I'm shocked that someone with legitimate life-threatening allergies would feel *safe* eating all of their food prepared outside the home.
Feel too good to cook? Fine. Hire a personal chef. There are lots of people who are happy to take money from people who think that earning means they have to spend it. And they'll be better about it than takeout restaurants who can't guarantee safe-from-cross-contamination spaces.
This!! My husband is a private chef in the Bay Area. Menus are designed 100% around client preference and need.2
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