If you family is typical, and you are gluten-free, the likelihood that you avoid at least one other food is very high.
But when you have a few folks all living together, keeping track of these food sensitivities is a bit complicated.
And when you travel and have to let other people know, it is a lot more complicated.
So I created this little spreadsheet chart.
If you download a copy, you should be able to then edit the names of each person to reflect your abode.
And update the list of foods that you want to show reactions to as well.
Then print off a copy for Grandma or Aunt Sally when you go off to Thanksgiving and hope they get it.
Please let me know if you can't and I will continue to work on it.
Anyway, our family has 4 people who live together. I am using the word sensitive since everyone can relate to that. We never went deep into testing to see if we had an actual allergy since we knew we would just not eat the sensitive foods anyway.
Ed is sensitive to gluten, soy, amaranth, quinoa and all the nightshades (peppers, tomatoes, potatoes)
I am sensitive to gluten and dairy- well the non fermented ones at least. I seem to be able to tolerate a bit of yogurt or cultured butter fine. I also react badly to black beans and broccoli but find that if we hold them to once a week or so, I am ok.
Fiona is sensitive to gluten, potatoes (although we are discovering that this is most likely due to aversion, not sensitivity) She ended up vomiting when she had the flu and since she had eaten potatoes, she wants to say those are the problem.
She also has a personal preference to avoid tomatoes and raisins.
Katie is sensitive to gluten, and dislikes drinking milk, eating tomatoes except when they are pureed.
so I plugged all that information into the chart and got this:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tVgal4rZQ9VweCHj9y2RnKw&output=html So now you know which other foods my family can't or won't eat and can check out our menu for the first week of November
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But when you have a few folks all living together, keeping track of these food sensitivities is a bit complicated.
And when you travel and have to let other people know, it is a lot more complicated.
So I created this little spreadsheet chart.
If you download a copy, you should be able to then edit the names of each person to reflect your abode.
And update the list of foods that you want to show reactions to as well.
Then print off a copy for Grandma or Aunt Sally when you go off to Thanksgiving and hope they get it.
Please let me know if you can't and I will continue to work on it.
Anyway, our family has 4 people who live together. I am using the word sensitive since everyone can relate to that. We never went deep into testing to see if we had an actual allergy since we knew we would just not eat the sensitive foods anyway.
Ed is sensitive to gluten, soy, amaranth, quinoa and all the nightshades (peppers, tomatoes, potatoes)
I am sensitive to gluten and dairy- well the non fermented ones at least. I seem to be able to tolerate a bit of yogurt or cultured butter fine. I also react badly to black beans and broccoli but find that if we hold them to once a week or so, I am ok.
Fiona is sensitive to gluten, potatoes (although we are discovering that this is most likely due to aversion, not sensitivity) She ended up vomiting when she had the flu and since she had eaten potatoes, she wants to say those are the problem.
She also has a personal preference to avoid tomatoes and raisins.
Katie is sensitive to gluten, and dislikes drinking milk, eating tomatoes except when they are pureed.
so I plugged all that information into the chart and got this: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tVgal4rZQ9VweCHj9y2RnKw&output=html
So now you know which other foods my family can't or won't eat and can check out our menu for the first week of November