Vacations for the Eating-impaired
Posted in Uncategorized on 07/29/2009 01:24 pm by LaurelAfter a couple months of Esther eating her own food at Camp we got brave and planned a trip out to Indy to visit her brother, who has been working out there all Summer. I spent an entire evening researching restaurants in the area, finding out who had an allergy-conscious menu (Panera Bread, The Spaghetti Factory, and Chipotle’s is about it), because traveling and eating out in different cities has always been part of the fun of vacations for us. I thought three would be enough if we brought along enough food for her other two meals a day, and was feeling pretty good about having a real family vacation.
Last night while I was lying in bed, the logistics of this actually hit me: the 8 hour car ride there and back that will require meals on the road, 80 degree temps that will necessitate a cooler, the inevitable emotional upheaval when we are going through the drive-through and she is rooting through her packed food, the advance preparation of food to go, and more grocery shopping once we get there, having to prepare meals that are good for us and healthy for her, far away from my well-stocked kitchen. ugh. How does a family of celiacs vacation? This is ridiculous. I’ll need a vacation by the time I get home from this trip.
Breakfast was easy anyway– banana chocolate chip muffins that travel well and are good with a cup of tea.
