to be irritated when fussy eaters claim they have food allegies?

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MIL claims she can't eat onions, garlic, chilli, leeks, pepper, wheat, cranberries, citrus etc etc. BUT should I make a lemon cheesecake and suddenly she is able to wolf down a huge slice. Seems to me she is not alone in this annoying trait...

no problem

next time she comes round, present her with the non wheat, non citrus pudding (fruit salad) whilst the rest of you tuck into the cheesecake

well, you wouldnt want her getting ill would you!

""citrus etc etc. BUT should I make a lemon cheesecake and suddenly she is able to wolf down a huge slice.""

Well, YAB a bit U, DH cannot eat most fruits because they make the inside of his mouth go all "fizzy" but if I cook the same fruits he can eat them without a problem.

I do Agree with LeQueen though , it is not classified as a food alergy, but as a sensitivity to some fruits (he will not get into Anaphilactic (sp?) shock if he eats an apple but it is very uncomfortable)

Oh YANBU!!
DP's younger sister does this - she claims to be wheat intolerant. Make her something healthy and tasty that includes wheat 'I can't eat that' and then five minutes later you'll see her eating pizza. (she's veggie as well which makes is doubly difficult, and then there's loads of veg she won't eat either) It really annoys me, because my mum really is allergic to wheat/gluten, and she can't even use table salt that has wheat based anti-caking agents in it.

YANBU - it trivialises medically diagnosed allergies and makes me chuckle. I'll often ask patients if they have allergies and have to hide a smirk when they name a random food item and are unable to expand on exactly how severe the reaction is. The classic one is kids with milk allergies who can still eat chocolate.

I think it's quite fashionable to have a food 'allergy'

YANBU.

Perhaps I'm being too black & white about the issue - but for me, a food allergy is one such as people who have terrible peanut allergies and need to carry around a syringe filled with adrenaline and who have real, physical symptoms.

Farting doesn't mean you're on your deathbed. I think... else pray for me!

However, wrt earlier posts, I am "allergic" to liver, "mushy" fish, courgettes and Terry's Angel Delight - but I like proper Turkish Delight.

Hi there,

I work for an charity which runs residential weeks for young people (very small to very tall!!), and it's amazing how many kids are "allergic" to dairy/wheat &c. I fully understand that some kids are intolerant of these foods, if not genuinely allergic, and would really rather not have to deal with a child feeling poorly if we can avoid it, but often these are the same kids whose parents send them armed with chocolates and other snacks for the week!

We also get quite a few vegetarian parents who tell us that their child is also vegetarian - but when the child sits down to dinner or luch, they ask to have the meat option rather than the veggie option!!

It does make the medical/dietary forms more complicated - but we just have to go with what the parent/carer says. If they've told us their child is allergic to something, but not listed any medication, I do always call to ask if the child has an epipen or any other medication we should know about to deal with their allergy... usually the answer is no!

Im very lucky in that i have no food allergies or intolerances ,some foods make me fart ,bloat ,give me heartburn but i accept that as an adult i have a choice as to whether i eat them or not .Saying that if i came to your house and you had cooked me a meal containing bloaty/farty foods i would smile sweetly and eat it .Unless it was liver ,because i absolutely bloody detest the smell ,texture and taste of the devils own offal , but i would have the good grace to say i just really dont like it and then go sit in the corner with a dry crustSo YANBU

Ronaldinhio I am allergic to potato ? and all other nightshades. It?s bloody awful because I loved mashed potato, chips and roasties. I never used to have a reaction to them but then I started getting awful hives and couldn?t work out what it was, because I was eating potatoes every day, and then I would throw up after every meal which involved potatoes, which was most evening meals, so I stopped eating and it magically disappeared, then I ate a jacket potato and had a proper take-me-to-hospital-cos-I-can?t-breathe reaction. Now I carry an epipen everywhere because potato starch gets into everything ? gravy, pasta sauces, cake?! - and I can't predict what I'm going to react to next. Dairy makes my eczema flare up something chronic and brazil nuts (no other nuts) send me straight into anaphylactic shock. I can't go out to dinner, I can't let other people cook for me, I don't buy anything without reading all the labels and then other people say 'oh I'm allergic to so and so' then promptly whip out a ready prepared something or other that I know from my compulsive label checking (because they change ingredients around and sneak things in) that it's got the very thing they're claiming to be deathly allergic to in!

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OP YADNBU! People like that make my life hell. Everyone has things they don't like (I can't as in won't eat chicken, can't make myself do it, mentally scarred from an early age and really don't like lamb) but very few have things they actually, physically can't eat.

I hardly ever encounter anyone who says they have allergies or intolerances, apart from one friend who's coeliac and has been since birth, and one colleague with a massive nut allergy. I can't remember a single vegetarian or 'allergic' dinner party guest, nor host for that matter. Is this because I don't live in the UK?

YANBU, annoys the hell out of me

YANBU. It annoys me too and I've got a list of allergies I'd much rather not have. But properly diagnosed at hospital, carry epipens etc. I wish it was something I could drag up when I don't fancy eating something, or conveniently ignore when something yummy comes along.

I've got a friend who has been poorly for a long time and is convinced through vega testing that she's allergic to wheat, milk, sugar etc etc. Fair enough if it's just her, but her 6 year old dd is also following a restricted diet. I think it's very easy to get carried away and blame foods for indigestion etc, but it's also easy to then miss out whole foodgroups and make yourself even more ill.