Dealing with Food Allergies

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who is allergic to tomatoes. Hence, tomato sauce for pasta/pizza, ketchup, and all the common tomato based foods are off limits. Lots of people are allergic to dairy products, which eliminates a lot of foods they can eat. I would have a hard time giving up tomato sauced pasta and diary myself. So this had me wondering how couples deal with a situation where one person has a big food allergy when the other doesn't? Do/Would you make two separate meals when cooking? Does the person without the allergy simply just not eat/fix foods with the allergic food in them, hence not eating pizza or pasta or something?

I guess you could apply this question to people who are on a restricted diet as well.

I myself would have a hard time giving up a lot of foods. I also find the idea of cooking two meals to a pain because it doubles your dishes and just means more work/time. So I was curious what people do in this kind of situation.

[Anonymous]

My dad is allergic to tomatoes too, but my mom is Italian so this poses a problem lol. So whenever my mom is really craving italian food we always go to a restaurat and eat it and my dad gets a vegetarian pizza or alfredo or just plain noodles with cheese. But when my mom cooks at home she avoids tomatoes. I mean she still puts them in our salads just not in my dad's.

[ipartyhard-]

my sister is allergic to about 20 different things, like nuts, dairy, some kind of grain? WHATEVER YOU CAN THINK OF, she can't eat it. so my mom just cooks foods we all can eat, and it hasn't really been that hard. I guess we got used to it overtime.

[Novemberboy]

Well I would assume that you should just cook two seperate meals if the meal you are cooking has tomato sauce in it. The person without the allergy shouldn't have to give up pizza and other stuff they like because the other person can't have it.

[Cool-Relax]

My brother is allergic to bananas, so we pretty much avoid them. It's not really a staple food so it's easy to work around, but it rules out a lot of desserts which is kind of annoying. We only have them on special occasions.

[Starlett]

my ex-husband didn't eat tomatoes, seafood or vinegar, so I usually omitted these things from my cooking while we were married, and it was always the first thing I ordered when I would go out with the girls, or anytime I ate a meal without him.