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What have you been doing at your house with meals for DH and you? Have you been making separate meals or just cooking for the both of you? Could you continue doing what you're doing now at the inlaws house? Since your diet is so restricted, I think eating out would be tough, no? So maybe you have to opt out of eating out with them and just make food at home, as boring as that is.

I had a friend go through this and the above suggestions are what she told me she had to do to stay on a VERY limited diet.

I had a house guest with severe dietary restrictions (NO dairy or soy for her BF baby, so she had to be incredibly cautious) for a whole weekend. She brought every single meal with her, in serving-size containers. I was kind of mortified that she felt she had to do that - I would have gladly cooked appropriate meals for her! However, I now understand how difficult it can be to trust other people to make sure nothing accidentally gets used that's not diet-friendly (I learned that even 'plain' spices can have a special soy additive in them! ).

So, in short, she brought ALL her own meals and I felt bad.

Oh, and she also brought along a lot of homemade snacks to share (banana bread, trail mix, etc) so she wouldn't feel too weird always eating something different than everybody else.

@anandam: 2 weeks is a long time to bring all your meals ahead of time. Could you come prepared with a few recipes that will make a lot of leftovers (like, a tray of lasagna, only, obviously, something you can eat) and make that with her one night, then eat leftovers from that when she makes something you can't eat?

knowing what I do now about allergies and food intolerances and such, if I was hosting you I would appreciate recipe suggestions and you really spelling out what you can or cannot eat. I would hate to make something especially for you, only to find out that the seasoning I used was a no no and you couldn't eat it, you know?