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The only worry I have about food is that I have not prepared enough food or choices when we are having guests.
After 32 years, I'm still nervous cooking for my in-laws - their religion (Seventh Day Adventist) has a lot of dietary restrictions and DH's parents strictly adhere to them. Not just vegan, but also no vinegar, pepper, spices, little sugar, etc.
I always end up stewing about what to fix for them.
After 32 years, I'm still nervous cooking for my in-laws - their religion (Seventh Day Adventist) has a lot of dietary restrictions and DH's parents strictly adhere to them. Not just vegan, but also no vinegar, pepper, spices, little sugar, etc.
I always end up stewing about what to fix for them.
I worked with several people who were SDA and never noticed them with dietary restrictions beyond not eating pork or shellfish, and abstaining from anything with alcohol or caffeine. In fact, one liked Tabasco sauce on his eggs. Many SDA's are voluntarily vegetarian, as the church recommends it, but doesn't require it.
After reading about your in laws, I started to wonder about their 'religious' restrictions. And as far as I can find, there's no SDA rules prohibiting vinegar, pepper, spices or sugar.
I'm not posting this information to hassle you, as I think making your in laws comfortable is a wonderful thing to do. But if someone else reads this, I don't want them to thing that your in-laws preference for bland food is a religious requirement.
now i thought carrageenan was seaweed... and seaweed/kelp is free-range, organic, locally grown (its local somewhere)
no anti biotics, no growth hormones, ....
geeez, i was just getting use to smoked seaweed-was going to sell it for smoked weed/jerky
After 32 years, I'm still nervous cooking for my in-laws - their religion (Seventh Day Adventist) has a lot of dietary restrictions and DH's parents strictly adhere to them. Not just vegan, but also no vinegar, pepper, spices, little sugar, etc.
I always end up stewing about what to fix for them.
wow, I know 7th Day Adventists are vegetarians, but I didn't know about the rest. It would be very hard to cook for them, I am sure. When my husband was in college (almost 60 years ago) he and 9 of his friends lived with a lady that took in college boys, she was 7 day adventist. Can you imagine a bunch or 18-21 year old guys, who enjoyed a party now and then and had been raised thinking meat and beer were the 2 staples in life, having a 7 day Adventists cook for them. Needless to say, all 10 lasted exactly 1 semester.
I worked with several people who were SDA and never noticed them with dietary restrictions beyond not eating pork or shellfish, and abstaining from anything with alcohol or caffeine. In fact, one liked Tabasco sauce on his eggs. Many SDA's are voluntarily vegetarian, as the church recommends it, but doesn't require it.
After reading about your in laws, I started to wonder about their 'religious' restrictions. And as far as I can find, there's no SDA rules prohibiting vinegar, pepper, spices or sugar.
I'm not posting this information to hassle you, as I think making your in laws comfortable is a wonderful thing to do. But if someone else reads this, I don't want them to thing that your in-laws preference for bland food is a religious requirement.
Like so many religions, even Lutheran, it probably depends on the region and the strictness. I did know most are vegetarians, but the rest I didn't know. Maybe in the mid west and closer to the PA area they are a little stricter. The experience I have had and spoiled brat had was in So California.
Some of us grew up without ever hearing about any of this stuff and we probably even ate food that should have been tossed, but we are alive today and well.
Perhaps true, Nita, (although I don't think we were fed food that should have been discarded due to spoiling, if that's what you're referencing & I don't think anyone should), but you must recognize that food was far cleaner 30-yrs ago, some have stronger constitutions than others & some have adverse reactions to some or many foods/drinks/food additives, etc. You sound like someone who doesn't suffer these issues (very lucky, indeed), therefore, doesn't need to be careful.
Honestly, if I could eat a 99-cent can of soup or a cheap hotdog on a white bun, drink instant coffee & soda, etc. & save a pile of $ in the process, I'd do so. But, not only would I feel like a car hit me, I'd have a nice, blotchy, itchy face rash for 1-2 wks & a rip roaring headache for a few days. No thanks, I'll just eat as much as I can sans additives of any sort.
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Too many people do too much reading and look for the 1/2 empty glass. Research is one thing, buying into too much hype is another.
Sure there are some who obsess on anything. But, again... research because one is ill from foods & is attempting to find out why & what to avoid, isn't paranoid or negative. They're smart in wanting to take the path of their own health & well being into their own hands. You don't need to do so, obviously, but consider that there are many of us who do need to be concerned because simple off-the-shelf 'foods' make us feel like we're very, very ill.
I worry most about restaurant cleanliness and the hygiene of the people handling my food when I eat out. I have a very sensitive stomach and I can't tell you how many times I get an upset stomach after eating out. I spend a lot for that food! I'd like to hold onto it a little bit longer! (Gross, huh?) I love eating out, though.
Isn't it maddening?! To address your first point, I have had several chef friends. All were finicky but, one never ate out, no matter the caliber of restaurant, because he talked about 'inevitable biologicals' in food... hot kitchens causing sweating 'n dripping, sneezing/coughing, bacteria transfer from surface to surface. Yikes... I haven't eaten out much since he told me that 20-yrs ago.
In addition to a very sensitive stomach like you, we've also had exactly the same problems with food poisoning symptoms. The day we moved to Denver we had a gnarly bona fide case (28 people got ill at the restaurant we visited & we continued to be ill regularly anytime we ate anything for SIX months... it was one of the few times I reported it to the restaurant (who promptly had their lawyer & the Dept of Health contact us) & followed through to the end, because we were both so ill, we slept on the floor of the bathroom, him upstairs, me downstairs, for 2-days.) We opted not to take a 'small settlement' as they were not only hostile & rude through the whole process, but wanted us to sign releases not to discuss it. Oh, bloody well fudge off, then & take your 'small settlement' with you.
Now, 1-yr later, we've just gotten back to 100% & anytime he suggests we eat out, I groan & decline 99% of the time, of course after screeching 'How dare you!!!' & running for the hills. If he does convince me to go, I'll only eat steak & a baked potato (no salads that waiters scoop with hands from a large common bowl, no sauces of any kind), because I can handle it with no symptoms. I'd rather just have my own well-prepared, clean food from my own kitchen.
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I also don't cook fish at home anymore. The one time I cooked tilapia, I darned near killed my husband and myself with food poisoning.
Another for me. My diet normally consisted of fish, but for 1/2-dozen years now, every time I eat fish prepared in anyway, I'm ill for 2-days. Finally, I just gave it up. Someone mentioned I could have developed an allergy to fish... but, it's disappointing, because it was the only 'meat' I used to eat. Poultry & eggs make me ill with flu like symptoms every time I eat them, so I avoid them. I don't eat the pork or lamb, so that leaves beef, which makes me nauseous 1 in 4 times. Not sure if it's true, but someone suggested trying deer, elk, etc., as perhaps they're cleaner. I'd welcome comments from anyone who has tried it & felt better.
Still... no fair! What is happening to us?! I'm so jealous of those who write they buy tinned food for 19-cents/can or processed junk & sandwiches & are fine. They think we're finicky, paranoid, crazy, but I doubt they'd trade places with us, gastronomically. Lastly, I eat 1/2 of what most people eat & it costs me twice what most pay for food, because everything has to be organic & unprocessed.
So cut us some slack, finger pointers. We'd like to be like you, too.
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You don't need to do so, obviously, but consider that there are many of us who do need to be concerned because simple off-the-shelf 'foods' make us feel like we're very, very ill.
for me. My diet normally consisted of fish, but for 1/2-dozen years now, every time I eat fish prepared in anyway, I'm ill for 2-days. Finally, I just gave it up. Someone mentioned I could have developed an allergy to fish... but, it's disappointing, because it was the only 'meat' I used to eat. Poultry & eggs make me ill with flu like symptoms every time I eat them, so I avoid them. I don't eat the pork or lamb, so that leaves beef, which makes me nauseous 1 in 4 times. Not sure if it's true, but someone suggested trying deer, elk, etc., as perhaps they're cleaner. I'd welcome comments from anyone who has tried it & felt better.
