House guests who ‘don’t eat carbohydrate’

[Littlemessymiss]

The second time a particular house guest has brought a girlfriend who does not to eat ‘carbohydrates’ in the form of starch/ gluten. There is no chrohns/ coeliac. There is a limit to how many roasted cauliflowers and sweet potatos I can stomach.
We would not have evolved as a species if there was an absence of carb!
WIBU to educate these Americans of the joy of a nice rib of beef with roasties and Yorkshire’s?

Realistically they are talking about starch.... i’ll shut up now and feed them steamed fish.

I cook sweet potatoes/ cauli as they are lower GI than a normal potato so at least I am trying to nod to their idiosyncrasies

This is getting odder and odder. Now she's low GI? Which is different again?. You know that they g in gi stands for glyceamic and not gluten right?

WTAF? You have guests to dinner, and don't ask if they have anything they don't eat and expect them to cook the dinner if they don't like what you're serving?

You mean you stay at people's house as a guest in another country and don't offer to cook?

You can't be seriously that rude.

Especially if the people you are visiting aren't your friend but the friends of a partner.

You mean you stay at people's house as a guest in another country and don't offer to cook?

Of course not, I take them out to dinner an pay, I would never deem to take over someone's kitchen.

I would be that guest I am afraid. Carbs to me go straight to my belly so I have learnt to avoid them at all costs.

We survived and thrived for hundreds of thousands of years as a species before we figured out how to make bread

To be fair, the low life expectancy of our ancestors doesn't really count as " thriving"

If they didn't eat starch at all they wouldn't eat sweet potatoes

If they DO eat low-GI starch, and you eat lentils, sweet potatoes etc anyway, feeding them shouldn't be a problem.

But if I'm misunderstanding and this wouldn't work, just do protein/veg/salad things, put the carbs in a separate bowl on the table and everyone can help themselves to what they want.

ekto, starch-eating didn't start with agriculture. People had already been eating starch in the form of things like tubers for thousands of years.

Blimey, this became completely bonkers very quickly.

I very rarely eat anything containing flour and have a small potato once in a while. My carb intake comes from vegetables, pulses in small amounts and a portion of fruit every few days.

It's not 'idiosyncratic' It's because I'm diabetic. It also keeps my weight down - I gave in to my doctor's nagging about 'needing more carbs' and put a stone on in a month by simply adding 2 weetabix and one piece of fruit daily.

I'm not difficult to cater for, unless you plan all your meals around pies but even then I'd eat the content and leave the pastry, spuds and Yorkshire puddings.

I'm sure its true that most of us would be healthier if we cut down on processed carbohydrates.

However, it is very doubtful that modern "caveman" or "paleo" diets bear any resemblance to what our ancient ancestors* ate (likely to vary widely depending on where in the world they lived, and very unlikely to consist of "steak, chicken drumsticks, chicken breast, 2 sausages and 2 fried eggs" for dinner).

Starchy carbs can be found in roots etc, which probably formed an important part of our ancient ancestor's diet.

*And even if they did, wtf do we think cavemen were "healthy"? Raquel Welsh looked good I suppose. So as long as there's no doubt over the historical accuracy of 1 million years BC then maybe there IS something to a paleo diet.....

Of course not, I take them out to dinner an pay, I would never deem to take over someone's kitchen

I find people really appreciate it when you show them real cooking form your country. I also find that people who pride themselves on being "blunt" or the sort to "say it as it is" are really just rude.

Actually it wasn't until we as a species got into cooking our food, farming, processing grains into bread etc. that we really progressed in leaps and bounds in terms of health, strength, society...rather than having to spend all our energy on digesting raw and difficult stuff, teeth worn flat etc. The Paleo thing is bull

WIBU to educate these Americans of the joy of a nice rib of beef with roasties and Yorkshire’s?

I avoid carbs. I'd be ecstatic if my host served this up. I'd eat the beef and the veg. I might have half a potato but would pass on the Yorkshires.

You are overthinking this. Cook what you would normally eat. Ideally choosing your normal meals where a non-carb (or other "fussy" eater) can pick bits out. So, avoid a pasta bake but go ahead with sausage and mash, stirfry with rice, curry and naan/rice.

I would just serve up whatever I wanted and she just wouldn’t get the carbs, extra green veg instead.

I will happily cater for allergies but for fussy “oh I don’t eat carbs” types No

We would not have evolved as a species if there was an absence of carb!
No Gluten lot like brown toast and wholemeal pasta.

Bollocks and bollocks.

I haven't really eaten carbs (bread, pasta, potatoes, or meat, sugar or dairy) for years due to a health condition. I eat fish & veg, and a lot of lentils. I have regular blood tests and my doctor says I'm the healthiest patient he has ever seen in his career looking at my blood work.

So it's crap that you 'need' all those things.

I’m going to run off now as that rib of beef isn’t going to buy itself.
I have it cracked!

The Paleo thing is bull

Look up Terry Wahls. Bull it is not.

As mentioned sweet potatoes are high in carbs I just cook normal meals and give myself extra veg with butter instead of the starchy carbs. It doesn't need to impact on other people. Vegetables have carbs so they'll be getting some.

""What makes me giggle is that they will munch on a tin of cookies that I made for DDs and order puddings when we are eating out.""

I've just been to a two day Health Seminar, which was research/Consultant led.

I never realised that many Carbs, end up putting more sugar in our bodies than eating sugar foods, cakes etc, does.

I didn't understand insulin resistance etc.

High Carb diets and inactivity are killing us. People who have those, are more likely to be Obese, but the people going to clinic aren't just the Obese, they are the Carb junkies and the inactive.

That was what the cardio Consultant was explaining (it was slightly different for the Diabetes Consultant).

Inactivity also includes fighting off the cold, coping with hunger, fighting infections etc, all of which a lot of us don't do, long enough, in the UK. We can't compare ourselves to our ancestors, what-so-ever.

If you can't think how easy it would be not to eat 'white' Carbs, then your diet needs looking at.

there are carbs in veg.

if girlfriend has a restricted diet that's fine, she does however need to employ the basic courtesies. Those are phoning ahead, explaining, apologising and giving ideas of what she can eat. Otherwise you are entitled to assume it is a bad case of Paltrow and ignore.

The Paleo diet of the hunter gatherer is why humans evolved so successfully and is what our bodies are made to eat, not Yorkshire puds unfortunately.

I used to think the Paleo diet was a load of bollocks hipster shit.
I did a bit of research after MS relapse and changed my diet to Paleo as it's meant to help. I was having issues with wheat too. Unintentionally I lost a couple of stone too, very gradually over the course of a year.
It's amazing that once you get used to it you can actually get full on a normal portion of meat/fish plus a good amount of veg.

Not eating wheat/grains is such a bizarre concept to many. I mean practically every "normal" meal is laden with them. (Breakfast cereal/sandwich for lunch/pasta type dish for dinner.)
My MIL is very perplexed as to what I actually eat. Even when I'm actually eating she quizzes me!

Just do the rib of beef, roasties and yorkies....and a big bowl of salad.
You might find she might just have to have a wee nibble of the stuff she "can't" eat.

I would just cook the roast dinner, then let her serve herself which bits she can (or wants to) eat. And I say that as a coeliac!

we had a family member come and stay with her husband, they told us they couldn't have gluten as they had an allergy, so we spend tons of fancy gluten free stuff and made meals that they could eat safely.... come to the last few days of their visit to discover it was his son who had a gluten intolerance NOT them and to make it worse he wasn't with them ( not even on the same island) ( 12 hours drive away and a 3 hour ferry ride away)

we had gone to so much trouble making sure every meal was "safe" for them and they were not even bloody gluten intolerant!!!!! fuck we were pissed off!
so now if they come to visit again no special treatment, they make it hard for people who have an actual intolerance to be believed!

they will munch on a tin of cookies that I made for DDs

Oh I wouldn’t be able to resist grabbing it out of her/his hand, while screaming in a panic “noooooo! There’s carbs in that!” With a look of concerned 😧😁

I can’t stand bullshitters. It’s like people who are part time vegans or vegans that eat eggs 😒 or vegetarians that eat fish 😠 . Either commit to your dietary beliefs or shut up.