What about eating issues?

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What about eating issues?
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Fri, 06-10-2005 - 2:24pm

We have debated sleeping issues to death once again....so what about another one of the issues of childhood....eating and/or not eating?


My kids eat just about anything and have a pretty well rounded diet.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 11-10-2004
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:44pm
LOLOLOLOLOL!!! OMG. Would you serve her gourmet french fries?
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Registered: 09-25-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:46pm
Just a clarification. . .I didn't quote the research, I summarized some minor points and I never claimed to be an expert.
Virgo
 
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:46pm
My brother and his g/f did that for the longest time.
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Registered: 10-18-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:49pm
Hmmmm, maybe I can come up with some weird medical "reasons" that I can eat only chips and salsa, quacamole and bacon.


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Registered: 01-05-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:55pm

We are talking about having people over for "a" dinner.

I learned a whole new cooking genre during the times my husbands granny spent months on end with us. So did she. This is not the issue.

The foreign student who doesn't do pork should either find a culturally similar place to stay, or just skip the port, or skip the exchange. One of the valuable things kids learn on those exchanges is - the world is not all their way. If my kids go somewhere where they serve dog daily - OH WELL. I certainly hope the hosts aren't trying to feed my kids north american cuisine. What a waste of time and money that experience would be.

I have found that people who actually have - allergies and real health concerns- are more than happy to bring their own food - right down to the main course if necessary. I think - its great. It makes for a nicer meal. I have seen a few over the years not bring their own. The problem is, they then pick, hesitating to eat anyway. Whats in this. Whats in that. How did you prepare it. Over and over. The child with the peanut allergy won't be allowed to have the cookies no matter how I claim to have created them. Its a great thing when these people bring their own stuff and usually they do. Because its that important to them. Generally, its the people who have merely chosen a lifestyle that seem to want the need to accomodate rest squarely on the shoulders of someone else.

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Registered: 01-05-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 1:01pm
The guest has a responsibility to find welcoming something short of an environment that has been created 'especially' for him. To find welcoming only that which is tailored to ones owns needs and preferences - is immature. I'd have spent 3 weeks elsewhere in the world last year, feeling unwelcomed if my standards were such. Apparently my foreign hosts didn't think it was necessary to spread before me, day after day, a cuisine which I would find - palatable. There a wide variety of foods I will not eat if they are over 3 days old. I ate it anyway. I never considered that they were trying to insult me.
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Registered: 07-20-2004
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 1:04pm
Talk to my sister; I'm sure there's some fool disease or other that she's got lined up when the mood strikes....

Karen

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Registered: 01-05-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 1:06pm
Have you no exposure outside your own birth culture? Would you prepare Indian for a recent Indian immigrant, or Chinese for the one just over from China? It gets silly very quickly. I'm willing to bet, I entertain outside my own family alot more than most of this board. My busy well stocked kitchen won't help me out with anyone who wants a vegetarian main course beyond the spaghetti level. Which is the impromptu solution for many an unplanned get together. Not so much soccer ones though - thats what restaurants are for.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 1:11pm
Very impolite of one guest to just assume his unusul diet would be accomodated in a home he knows doesn't follow his protocol. Its assuming alot of knowledge and self education on the part of the hosts. Its really quite egocentric. Its the guests responsibility to make his requirements and expectations known.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 1:15pm

You understand me, I don't always understand you - that imbalance is part of what I'm trying to address.


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