Background: I started a diet to help control endometriosis about 3 months ago, it seems to be helping a lot (well, until this month anyway) but is quite restrictive. At the moment I am essentially on a gluten-free vegan diet, with reduced refined sugar. I tried relaxing it over the last month or so but the pain, discomfort and bloating returned with a vengeance so I am back to being strict with it and then will introduce things gradually again in another couple of months. It's getting to me a bit - I have some amazing recipes, but it does make things harder especially as I have been suffering with pain again recently.
Anyway, we are down at my in-laws at the moment, and when this all started MIL (with whom I generally get on well) was lovely and read up on it a lot (and because the "resident expert" - which is a whole other thread....).
This time, I brought some stuff - I am getting into the habit of doing that - but the first meals she made were ham and cheese sandwiches for late lunch, and a dinner of spag Bol with bread and a vienetta for pudding. So basically apart from the salad and a few grapes there was no part of them that I could eat. (My mother makes sure there's always a dish in the meal that I can have, and she gets these lovely gluten-free tarts for me).
I know I am feeling touchy about all this at the moment - I hate having to think about what I eat as I never have before, and I hate causing an issue over this, but AIBU to feel a bit put out that there has been no thought for me? I probably am, I know that, and I also know that I've been a bit obsessive over it (it did help that it was working up till this month....it's amazing what an incentive pain reduction can be!). I don't expect everyone else to be as focused on it as I am - I just can't help feeling a bit 
about it!
Please tell me to get a grip!
AIBU?
To feel unwelcome because of this damn diet?
StupidDiet · 26/05/2013 08:54
I am on a specific weird diet I'm a demi vegan who doesn't eat wheat or deadly nightshade vegetables (well most people think it's weird but it's because I want to AVOID bad health; there is a lot cancer and bad hearts in my family) so when staying with people I will take food like rice pasta and dips that i've made with cannellini or aduki , beans also my own soya or rice milk.
It's probably the best way to go (i haunt the Health Food shops 
) they're doing nicer and nicer GF stuff now!
So many people don't give a shit about their diets and their health congratulations for not just giving up and living at the doctors.
Two of my DC have to follow a similar diet, although they are allowed meat, the other should avoid eggs, pork, coconut and soy. DH should avoid yeast, dairy, eggs, cashews, chili, black currant and barley.
So, when we do to PIL's, we take alternatives. I make a suitable pudding to take, and we take biscuits, gluten free bread, breakfast cereal, rice and soy milk, etc.
Perhaps if you start to take some bits along, she will get the idea, and start making sure she has something suitable for you? (Although, not if she's like MIL, who has struggled with digestive problems all her life, but thinks they can all be sorted by drinking a small glass of whisky with warm water and sugar before you go to bed . She does try, though. When she had cooked sausages for breakfast, and DD2 couldn't have them, she suggested bacon, before her face fell, when she realised that was pork, as well.........)
ppeatfruit sums up perfectly why people 
at those on restricted diets.
It's nightshade vegetables. Deadly nightshade is an indelible and poisonous weed - it is part of the solanacea family like tomatoes, peppers, aubergines etc but it is very different.
Hope the OP isn't going too hungry
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