The traditional holiday vent thread

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AquariusHome

Discussion Starter · Apr 12, 2009

Okay, I'll start.

I decided to host Easter brunch in order to spare myself the agony of staring at the awesome looking food that I can't eat at someone else's house or at a restaurant.

I spent all day today cleaning the house, etc. Around mid-afternoon I came to the conclusion that I didn't have time to make the coconut milk yogurt I had planned to make. Ah well, it was an afterthought anyway. But I could still make regular yogurt with cow's milk for the non-allergic people.

As late afternoon/ evening came I started to come to the conclusion that I may need to scape plans for the blueberry muffins. No problem - we're having awesome waffles so we don't really need 2 breads.

Around 10:30 I started to make the waffle batter, which is supposed to set overnight. Oh crap, not enough flour, and not enough alternative flours to change the recipe. Off I go to my mother's house at 11:30 to get flour.

Now I'm totally exhausted and still have to make the waffles. As I'm mixing the ingredients together I realize we're out of EVCO. DH does the grocery shopping and apparently forgot to get some. I'll have to use lard I guess, but first I have to mix in the milk. Oh [email protected], I used cow's milk!!!! I don't have enough flour to make a whole new batch (it's 6 cups of flour). So I used butter in those and made another small batch with lard and almond milk. The consistency of the ones with the butter looks so much better, and they smell better too. I have no faith the waffles that are DD and me safe will be edible.

So now 2 of the 3 main dishes are off limits to dd and me. And I have no one to blame but myself.

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Therese's Mommy

· #2 · Apr 12, 2009

Yeah, holidays are tough. Last year I made some really awesome Paska bread along with some other Easter goodies. We had dinner at the in laws. This year, we are having leftovers from last night for dinner. We are going to the in laws to visit this afternoon, but we are taking a brown bag lunch. Things are different that is for sure. For us, in many ways, it is for the better. I never particularly liked sharing meals with the ils and they are our only family here. I love the excuse

: But, feast days are supposed to be that, "feast" days and ours won't be today. I am fairly new to this whole alternative diet and with the pregnancy I am just trying to keep my head above water on a day to day basis. Hopefully by next year I will have my act together enough to make a feast for my family.

Beth

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kjbrown92

· #3 · Apr 12, 2009

We're going to SIL's for Easter/nephew's birthday party at 1pm where there will be no safe food. They don't even try. They put cheese and croutons on the salad and everything. Nothing safe. We'll bring our food. Then leave there at 4pm (it's over an hour drive) to be back here for 5pm to have my family here for dinner at 5:30. We cleaned the house last night. I'm making a new recipe of pulled pork (hopefully it'll be edible). But I'm feeling like you Laurie, I was going to make baked beans and I was going to soak the beans last night. Oops, no dry beans in the pantry. There's some old frozen ones in the freezer so we're going to try that. Brother is bringing fruit salad (they asked what fruits were safe) and father's girlfriend is supposed to bring a vegetable (I have no doubt it won't be safe because she just doesn't get it). They're very forgiving though if things don't work out right for the food, and they don't even care if my house is a mess. I still have to figure out what I'm bringing for food to SIL's house though. No doubt there'll be a birthday cake and ice cream and I don't have time to make cupcakes for DD2 and DS.

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tanyalynn

· #4 · Apr 12, 2009

These are the reasons that, although I love my family and my in-laws, I'm sorta glad none are nearby (the closest are a 14-hour drive away--and yet still in-state

). I would be a wreck if I had to host a holiday meal. Seriously. Just planning and transporting our food when we visit is plenty of work for me. Today, well, our food isn't at all traditional, but at least it's food.

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lil_miss_understood

· #5 · Apr 12, 2009

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We're having a non-traditional meal with friends. They don't get it, so we'll be bringing our food too. I was going to host but I had planned to make ham and didn't realize they don't eat pork

so they're making fried chicken instead. Next holiday, we'll host with a turkey.

And they'll eat our food.

They've started buying gluten free bread to make stuffing because they liked ours better anyway.

It sure would be nice to have a day where I didn't have to cook though, or just had to cook ONE dish. That's part of the point of trading off on hosting, right?

We all need to move to a commune or something and then we can all take turns on holidays instead of stressing out about who's not going to do what.

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kjbrown92

· #6 · Apr 13, 2009

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We all need to move to a commune or something and then we can all take turns on holidays instead of stressing out about who's not going to do what.

I thought we were going to have a self-sufficient island commune... wasn't someone supposed to be working on that?

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AquariusHome

Discussion Starter · #7 · Apr 13, 2009

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I thought we were going to have a self-sufficient island commune... wasn't someone supposed to be working on that?

Someone was, but I don't remember who. Who was taking minutes that day?? I'm already packed and ready to go.

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Ophelia

· #8 · Apr 13, 2009

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I had such a hard time yesterday and dinner wasn't even at our house so it's not like I had to really cook anything (except the carrots which I brought and can eat).

DS and I cannot have gluten. But there is enough other stuff he can eat and I brought him a dessert. I, on the other hand, am on an elimination diet. I can eat a few more things now, but not much. Yesterday, as she's dumping juice on the ham, Mom says "this is 7-up and OJ". Thanks, Mom. If you had told me a few seconds before I could have pulled some plain ham out.
So basically I ate my carrots, and plain corn for Easter dinner. I have a really bad sweet tooth and forgot to bring my own dessert, so I had to sit there and watch everyone else eat the good stuff.

I didn't handle it as well as I thought I would. So at home (3 hours later when I was finally able to have a moment to myself w/o DS following me around) I scarfed down 2 cookies

then felt guilty for eating two instead of one. I'm also trying to lose weight during this diet and it didn't help. Wah.

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ASusan

· #9 · Apr 13, 2009

We went to DH's cousins' house for the weekend. Of the several dishes available at a Sat night holiday party, I was able to eat two of them - salmon and rice. I ate tons and tons of the rice pilaf -- SOO good and filling!

The next day, cousin says to me, "Oh, let me make you some rice to go with the pork I'm cooking for Easter dinner."
I say, "That's ok - I can just eat leftover rice from last night."
"What rice? That was orzo."

So, I had gobs and gobs of pasta (wheat). I got constipated.

And DS had diarrhea all Sunday.

kjbrown92

· #10 · Apr 13, 2009

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Originally Posted by ASusan

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We went to DH's cousins' house for the weekend. Of the several dishes available at a Sat night holiday party, I was able to eat two of them - salmon and rice. I ate tons and tons of the rice pilaf -- SOO good and filling!

The next day, cousin says to me, "Oh, let me make you some rice to go with the pork I'm cooking for Easter dinner."
I say, "That's ok - I can just eat leftover rice from last night."
"What rice? That was orzo."

So, I had gobs and gobs of pasta (wheat). I got constipated.

And DS had diarrhea all Sunday.

As soon as you said "pilaf", I thought "isn't she gluten free?"

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ASusan

· #11 · Apr 13, 2009

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As soon as you said "pilaf", I thought "isn't she gluten free?"

Well, avoiding wheat - and therefore basically doing gluten-free.

Yeah, I didn't realize that pilaf meant it had orzo in it. I just saw this dish with what appeared to be giant grains of rice. And I had just bypassed the salad (topped with nuts and blue cheese), and the green beans (drenched in butter) and the turkey breast (from Sam's Club, so the marinade is always questionable), and the only appetizer I'd had was shrimp (yummy, but of course, I couldn't do any of the extensive cheese spread). So when I got to the plate of rice, with just a bit of salmon on my plate, I freely indulged.

The thing that kills me is that I could have done any of those dishes with a little foresight on either my part or the cousin's. Like the green beans. I had already put some on my plate, and I asked about butter. "Oh, yeah, I forgot. Those do have butter on them." And the salad. If I'd been in the kitchen during prep, I could have saved some from the cheese and nuts.

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kjbrown92

· #12 · Apr 13, 2009

rice pilaf usually has butter in it as well.
My MIL did the same thing -- put the dressing on the salad. It could have been served on the side. There was pasta primavera and lasagna, and ham (with corn, etc. I'm sure). They just don't take us into consideration though. Then my MIL looked at my plate and my food and said, "You can't eat anything out there?" Well... no. And why does that surprise them when they serve all things that are wheat based? And what's REALLY funny is that SIL had a neighbor who was dairy free, and used to make everything dairy free for THEM. Since they've moved away, has she made anything that we could eat? No!

I'm worried about DS going to Granny Camp this year with MIL. Last year he went, but he could still have corn then. Without corn, it just makes it that much harder. It's MIL's week with all the grandchildren 6 years old and up (6 of them this year) for fun and games and campouts, etc. It's worrying me this year though. Of course, if she screws up, she'll have to deal with the fallout and then maybe she'll make more of an effort...

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Wugmama

· #13 · Apr 14, 2009

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s to you all. We went to my parents and I just told them not to plan any food for me and dd, I'd bring our meal, which I did. But she didn't put butter on the veggies, for instance, and made sweet potatoes especially for us. I also brought a pan of Namaste brownies (yes, the same brand that I ralphed on at Thanksgiving after eating 1/2 the pan myself because I was feeling sorry for myself re: all the stuff I couldn't eat).

But my mom and sister bought two bags of "Enjoy Life" chocolate chips, melted them and put them in Easter molds, including some with suckers sticks!

: I thought they were just for me and the baby, then realized there wasn't a lot of other chocolate out and the other kids were eating them. I got real selfish and put them up, and took them all home.

~Tracy

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lil_miss_understood

· #14 · Apr 14, 2009

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rice pilaf usually has butter in it as well.

My first thought was actually the "broth" that most people use to make pilaf... Most everyone I know uses a bouillon cube and water.

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ASusan

· #15 · Apr 14, 2009

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My first thought was actually the "broth" that most people use to make pilaf... Most everyone I know uses a bouillon cube and water.

Here's my ignorance showing. I MIGHT think to question a bouillion cube because I generally would prefer to see stock or bone broth being used. But what would a primary concern with a bouillion cube be?

I know DH's cousin uses bouillion - they have a HUGE plastic tub of cubes, and they've told me to use them when I've been making greens at their house.

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lil_miss_understood

· #16 · Apr 14, 2009

Dairy, wheat/gluten and soy, off the top of my head.

ETA: That's not mentioning the chemicals, like MSG etc.

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