Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on

[spacecanada]

Our special diet chefs presented us with a card today, thanking US for coordinating allergies and special dietary needs for the 3000 people here at camp. When we were at the kitchen today to thank them for doing everything to make safe meals for everyone, we never expected them to thank us. Those are some classy chefs. Two of them leave today, as do most of the participants, and we have one chef until I leave next week.

It is amazing at how much those chefs have learnt about allergies the past two weeks. Even the apprentice was catching mistakes by the cleaning crew with regards to cross contamination.

We need more chefs like these in the world.

And some humour this group may understand: in the special diets kitchen there is a broom with a label that says 'gluten-free, may contain traces of soy'

[GoingNuts]

^^ 

Sounds like it was a great experience SC.  So gratifying to see your hard work pay off. 

[Macabre]

Very cool, space!

[spacecanada]

And today the chefs gave us their chef coats... to keep. They are truly remarkable.

They even mentioned they would want their company to hire us (the two special diets people) as contractors for future events. Wow.

[GoingNuts]

 

[rebekahc]

That's awesome SC!

[hezzier]

DS had 6th grade orientation today from 12-2.  I called ahead to make sure they were not feeding them lunch, which they were not.  I stopped in to the office to drop off all the medical forms, epis and benadryl.  Nope they couldn't take it because there was no nurse on the property...seriously, you have at least 250 6th graders here and no nurse.  DS will self carry this year so his epis were in his cargo shorts.  I seriously should have pointed out to them the error of their ways, but I just didn't have it in me.  DS gets in the car, tells me about orientation and says they finished up by serving popsicles (which he skipped*)...seriously, they were only there 2 hrs.

*I'm always afraid he's going to tell me he ate something that we don't have any info on, but I really need to trust him on this.

[becca]

Seriously?  It never ends, right?  At least he made the right choice.  Dd would probably have a Popsicle, but would probably ask to see the label, at that age.  But that mystery food stuff drives me batty.

[hezzier]

If it was s brand we normal use, then I would have expected him to eat it.  It was some brand that I had never heard of.

[hezzier]

So DD (no allergies) was allowed to have food and drink in almost any class at middle school...kids would walk in with drinks from Dunkin' Donuts every morning  Well, she started HS this year and I was happy to hear that there is no food or drink in any of the classrooms except for water.

[spacecanada]

Hurray! Does that extend to teachers too?

[hezzier]

I don't know, but it's not something that we have worried about in the past.  So far DS has not been super sensitive so we have never asked teachers in the past to restrict what they eat or have in their classroom.

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[CMdeux]

DD passed an almond challenge today!!   

[Janelle205]

Awesome!  Did she like them?