Re: special dietary needs at camp

[Guest guest]

Tell them you'll bring your own?

----- Original Message -----

From: allenerob

Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 7:35 PM

Subject: " special dietary needs " at camp

i will be attending a knitting retreat at an historic inn in NC in

early june (thurs dinner through mon breakfast) and need to inform

the organizers of my " special dietary needs " so that they " can plan

accordingly " .

what on earth do i tell them?

i am willing to deviate from the NT diet for one meal, but i have

leaky gut and explode with more than one deviation.

tia--

allene

[Guest guest]

> Tell them you'll bring your own?

i'm paying too much money to want to do that. plus, what could i

take? i don't eat bread, and i can only tolerate few fruits/vegs

unjuiced and cheese in moderation.

and, if they are going to accomodate vegans and low-fatters, why not

me?

since i can't think of a descriptive name for the diet, which a chef

would immediately recognize, i'm considering just writing out a list

of the things that i can eat and letting them work within those

guidelines. surely they can handle some healthy soups, right?

allene

[Guest guest]

e,

This is the dilemma we all face when we leave home. s

recommendation is perfect to bring your own. If you won't or for

whatever reason are unable. You can always just default to meat and

vegetable as a meal. Obviously the selections will likely be poor

however in the lowest common denominator perspective meat and

vegetable can be handled by most hosts. Obviously I don't know what

you personally tolerate well with the leaky gut. Hopefully you are

getting that corrected.

All My Best,

Dr. Marasco,BS,DC

Cincinnati, Oh

Ps- if you have more questions feel free to email me at

mmarasco@...

> i will be attending a knitting retreat at an historic inn in NC in

> early june (thurs dinner through mon breakfast) and need to inform

> the organizers of my " special dietary needs " so that they " can plan

> accordingly " .

>

> what on earth do i tell them?

>

> i am willing to deviate from the NT diet for one meal, but i have

> leaky gut and explode with more than one deviation.

>

> tia--

> allene

[Guest guest]

How strictly do you have to be " NT " ? Can you generally eat simply prepared

meat and steamed vegetables with butter, and a salad with oil and vinegar?

They'd probably be able to do that easily...it fits the " low carb " type

diet.

Suggest:

eggs and bacon for breakfast

chef salad for lunch

meat, vegetables, salad for dinner

?

-----Original Message-----

From: allenerob [mailto:sallene@...]

Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 8:36 PM

Subject: " special dietary needs " at camp

i will be attending a knitting retreat at an historic inn in NC in

early june (thurs dinner through mon breakfast) and need to inform

the organizers of my " special dietary needs " so that they " can plan

accordingly " .

what on earth do i tell them?

i am willing to deviate from the NT diet for one meal, but i have

leaky gut and explode with more than one deviation.

tia--

allene

[Guest guest]

well, here is my thinking on these things, so take it with a grain of

salt

Since you have a specific medical condition, just be up front about

what you can and can't eat. If you didn't, and just wanted to eat

more WAP-ish on the theory that a lifetime of the SAD is a bad idea,

then I'd say just take a vacation from WAP eating and enjoy the junk

food.

[Guest guest]

hi, justin, jill, dr michael, leslie, and all--

justin wrote:

> Since you have a specific medical condition, just be up front about

what you can and can't eat.

good! at first, i thought that maybe my insistence on accomodation

would be unreasonable, then i remembered that a " mainstream " friend

of mine w/MS is on the paleo diet, and i doubt that event organizers

would expect her to deviate from her diet. i have decided to tell

them that the diet is necessary for my muscular dystrophy rather than

for the leaky gut, which, although it could be the root of the

dystrophy, is an outwardly invisible condition and less understood.

of course, there's always the chance that the 2 of us *are*

unreasonable <g>.

jill wrote:

< Can you generally eat simply prepared meat and steamed vegetables

with butter, and a salad with oil and vinegar?

They'd probably be able to do that easily...it fits the " low carb "

type diet.>

thank you, jill. a friend had pointed out that it is easier to

accomodate vegans and lowfatters because it is easier to take

something away than it is to add. so it helps me to think of this as

presenting them with things that they need to take away from SAD.

dr michael wrote:

<This is the dilemma we all face when we leave home. 's

recommendation is perfect to bring your own. If you won't or for

whatever reason are unable. You can always just default to meat and

vegetable as a meal.>

i will try to take a LF condiment and/or beverage and my own butter.

much more than that i am unable, both physically and financially, to

take.

thanks to all--

allene, hoping to get off disability through knitting and no longer

to be disabled through WAP