Meals and Dietary Preferences & Requirements | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sharon Villines (sharonvillinesprodigy.net) | |
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 07:17:02 -0600 (MDT) |
We are just getting our meal program going and I have some questions about how you handle all the diet stuff. I have diabetes that is diet controlled except when I eat commonhouse meals. Then I go over the top with all the high-glycemic-index food and it takes several days to get back on track. Starch seems to be the order of the day--starch over starch with salad on the side followed by sugar. No one is forcing me to eat the absolutely delicious food, mind you, but when faced with another meal where the only thing I _should_ eat is salad, I can see I need to do something differently. THEN when I think of cooking for the group I start with a menu, calculating amounts and logistics, thinking about how delicious this meal will be, etc., and run right into restrictions -- wheat-sensitive, lactose-intolerant, vegan, vegetarian, meat necessary, no "junk", child friendly, no hot spices. I know perfectly well how to cook for all these preferences/restrictions (and have been on one or the other of these diets myself at one time or another) but the complexity of cooking for all of them at the same time takes all the anticipated fun out of it for me. You become a short order cook. Commonhouse meals were one of the things I was looking forward to most but they have become a booby-trap. How do you all handle this? Sharon -- Sharon Villines Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC http://www.takomavillage.org _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
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Meals and Dietary Preferences & Requirements Sharon Villines, July 2 2001
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