To tell my homeopathic woo friend to bring her own food

[Ijustwantaquietlife]

I have a lovley but scatty and very into her woo friend that has a complicated ever changing diet. It's given to her by a homeopath who charges 60 for a consultation and then a fortune for sugar pills.

She's given me a list of things she can't eat for a meal I'm making on Sunday. I'm tempted to just say bring your own food. Espically as all the foods she can't eat she will just ignore herself if she fancies something like a slice of cake or something.

Could you not just do her a very dull green salad. And then tell her to help herself to anything else she fancies.

I'm intregued , what can she eat?

Tell us what she can have and we'll put you together the daftest meal possible. Like a bat shit ready sready cook for woo loons.

Could you not just do her a very dull green salad. And then tell her to help herself to anything else she fancies.

This is genius! I've been on the receiving end of something similar and it's bloody infuriating - the thing the guest has eaten happily for 40 years is all of a sudden "not allowed" because of a whim. And while I have enormous sympathy for anyone with diagnosed allergies and would absolutely go the extra mile for them, this sort of thing is totally different.

I think I would try to cook something suitable for a lovely friend. even if I thought they were a bit bonkers. I like a challenge. What is her list. lets see what we can come up with. my daughter was fish, wheat and pulse egg and dairy free with some other random fruit veg and meat allergies too. it was fine once I got my head round it.

To be honest I'd probably be reassessing my friendship. I struggle to find common ground with people who believe in homeopathy.

Play Tim minchin's 'Storm' on repeats over lunch

I'd be inclined to provide something she is willing to eat, that's the point of hosting imo. Yes the guest shouldn't be this rude but the host should be polite. It's true that I wouldn't exhaust myself in the kitchen either, given that she's been so rude. Maybe a salad with seeds and some stewed plums?

Why give you a long list of can't eats when life is easier with can eats? Unless it is specific I.e. peanuts and gluten. It is not can't it is won't if no allergies are involved. My husband has a special diet and we always talk about cans which makes it easier for him to come to terms with and others to cook. Can eat white meat, rice, wholewheat pasta, green veg, eggs, etc in meals like xxxxx. I would be asking for recommendations for meals and recipes to save the grief.

What isn't she eating? I agree it's stupid but if it were a good friend of mine I'd just go with it and make something boring.

I'd probably try and go with it, it's s challenge. She's a friend.

But I'd also make something scrummy smelling / looking for everyone else. The one or two friends I have who have woo type diets would be itching to have some then I can say "oh dear, there's not enough for you I'm afraid". Yes, I'm mean.

(I feel the same about gluten free people. Have you been diagnosed by an actual doctor rather than a yoga teacher? No? Then you're not intolerant to gluten. Just avoid it if it makes you a bit bloated or bring your own food).

I have a couple of weird food things and it leads to much less embarrassment if I let people know up front. It probably stems from being mortified if someone doesn't enjoy food I've made them (I like make making people happy with food).

If she doesn't drink water from a tap or a plastic bottle where does she drink from? A puddle? The sea?

I have a friend who divines her food before eating it. I have more or less given up catering for her.

If she doesn't drink water from a tap or a plastic bottle where does she drink from? A puddle? The sea?
Unicorn tears.

The best thing about this thread is that a strikethrough on 'woo' turns it into 'wee'

I wouldn't have anyone into wee in my house!

I am on a limited diet (vegan) and will always offer to bring something to share with everyone. So I'll bring a vegan lasagne or some vegan meatballs and a vegan carrot cake, but enough for everyone, not just myself. Maybe you could ask her to do that?

What's the actual list of food she won't eat?

I have made dinner for my vegan friends before, it's not that difficult.

Happy to help with recipes if you are going to try to make something

Why give you a long list of can't eats when life is easier with can eats? Unless it is specific I.e. peanuts and gluten. It is not can't it is won't if no allergies are involved. My husband has a special diet and we always talk about cans which makes it easier for him to come to terms with and others to cook. Can eat white meat, rice, wholewheat pasta, green veg, eggs, etc in meals like xxxxx. I would be asking for recommendations for meals and recipes to save the grief.

Suggestions are good if they're welcomed, but I would absolutely hate this. Unless someone is literally intolerant to everything except plain rice and green vegetables or something, a list of "cans" will inevitably be much longer than any list of "can'ts" and I'd find it very stressful to be more or less told what to cook, but not be told the exact things to avoid so that I could add ingredients. I mean, telling someone you "can eat" pasta and chicken doesn't mean I'm just going to serve that, I'd add a dozen or so other ingredients to make it palatable, and any one of those could be on the "can't" list.

Honestly, it'd be much easier, for me at least, to receive a very long list of exclusions to work around.

I'm tempted to paste the whole list but it would be very outing!

She drinks water from her tap that has some special crystals or something under the sink or spring water in glass bottles only...

I do like the idea of separate dishes and one that she can have (green salad no dressing as obviously doesn't eat olive oil..) and then pull her up when she goes for the cake