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rmAmong the basic facts of my life are:
- I have celiac disease
- I am very very busy
This means a few things:
- I have to consume about 3000 calories a day to maintain my weight
- Food that is safe for me to eat that is not made from scratch, in my own home, is limited
- the time I have to make food from scratch in my own home is almost non-existant
So when the freezer at Whole Foods that carries all the gluten-free food is being repaired, and instead of moving that gluten-free food somewhere else they stick it in the back of their storage freezer and are rude and uninformative to me about when it will be back, I get upset. Granted, I got up set in a really mellow, defeatest way, so there was no public humiliation for me or anyone else, but things like this are hard.
Yes, there are other alternatives, and yes I'm always careful to have extra food around. But finding good food I enjoy and is safe for me to eat is expensive, time consuming and often dissapointing. Today I had to stop myself frm crying tears of joy when I discovered that Smarties are both gluten- and mollusk-free (yes, it really says that -- I don't have a problem with mollusks, but I wanted to share). Anything that happens to make that process harder or more time-consuming is legitimately upsetting especially when I am dealt with as if it's a quasi-luxury choice a la eating only organic or raw.
I have an autoimmune disease that literally effects dozens of choices I make every single day (is this safe? is this a contamination risk? how much fat have I had (my body still can't digest it well since the severity of the onset -- it's getting better, but slowly)?) If I make the wrong choice my ability to work can be compromised for days. It causes strangers to judge me and me to have to choose betwen sharing TMI or having people not believe in my illness.
This is easy bullshit compared to what many of you deal with all the time, and I know that. That said, food is still a core, panicky thing and poor logic and poor customer service from one of the only place I can shop really screws my day.
So I'll try again tomorrow.
- I have celiac disease
- I am very very busy
This means a few things:
- I have to consume about 3000 calories a day to maintain my weight
- Food that is safe for me to eat that is not made from scratch, in my own home, is limited
- the time I have to make food from scratch in my own home is almost non-existant
So when the freezer at Whole Foods that carries all the gluten-free food is being repaired, and instead of moving that gluten-free food somewhere else they stick it in the back of their storage freezer and are rude and uninformative to me about when it will be back, I get upset. Granted, I got up set in a really mellow, defeatest way, so there was no public humiliation for me or anyone else, but things like this are hard.
Yes, there are other alternatives, and yes I'm always careful to have extra food around. But finding good food I enjoy and is safe for me to eat is expensive, time consuming and often dissapointing. Today I had to stop myself frm crying tears of joy when I discovered that Smarties are both gluten- and mollusk-free (yes, it really says that -- I don't have a problem with mollusks, but I wanted to share). Anything that happens to make that process harder or more time-consuming is legitimately upsetting especially when I am dealt with as if it's a quasi-luxury choice a la eating only organic or raw.
I have an autoimmune disease that literally effects dozens of choices I make every single day (is this safe? is this a contamination risk? how much fat have I had (my body still can't digest it well since the severity of the onset -- it's getting better, but slowly)?) If I make the wrong choice my ability to work can be compromised for days. It causes strangers to judge me and me to have to choose betwen sharing TMI or having people not believe in my illness.
This is easy bullshit compared to what many of you deal with all the time, and I know that. That said, food is still a core, panicky thing and poor logic and poor customer service from one of the only place I can shop really screws my day.
So I'll try again tomorrow.
