How would you finish this sentence: You know you are food allergy parent when….
Yesterday, I was chuckling again at myself when I realized that I had facebook messaged a restaurant my notice of my divorce to their establishment. They recently started serving bowls of peanuts at their tables. I advised them of my previous love and now our current parting of ways. Then I started laughing out loud at how us food allergy parent types live life so differently! Our tribe is one that endures, searches for solutions, never gives up and is rather creative!
So, I would finish up this sentence as such…
You know you are a food allergy parent when…
you message a restaurant to announced your break-up over bowls of peanuts being served at tables.
Please share below how you would end this sentence…
One of the hardest things I find about managing both life threatening food allergies and asthma is talking to others. I hate to be the one that might be perceived as demanding, pushing or for asking too much. What I now know, fourteen years later, is that honest, clear information presented with kindness works!..
What restaurant started serving peanuts?
Gar Woods starting serving bowls of peanuts on their tables Kelly! My hubby was out of his skull upset. Thankfully, he had Leila with him (tree nut allergic). He said he was watching kids spilling the bowls, etc.
Kelly, I never saw those barrels of nuts! Geez.
When you get the school party calendar at the beginning of the year and immediately start volunteering to make ALL of the food for EVERY party so your child won’t feel different. Then comes trying to figure out how to budget to pay for it all….
Oh Leiah! Don’t we know it! Try to guess how many cookies or treats you will bake this year? I swear that I am in the thousands of dairy free, nut free, egg free banana muffins.
When you plan, prepare, and bring a complete meal – with a separate, fully-closed meal of these foods for your food-allergic daughter – to a potluck in which everyone was told, “just bring one dish, we’ll have plenty.”
Natalie, yes!! That is one clear protocol—everyone: note the fully closed! That is to keep foods safe!!! Good work Natalie!