yes I have allergies, but I still like variety!

Submitted by shaz513 on December 7, 2009 - 9:20pm

away from safe foods

So, 3 weeks on a cruise ship and 1 week in Los Angeles ... where is my waiter? What? You mean i have to actually make my own food again? Poo!
The travel agent said it would be easy and i would have plenty of choices even with my very fussy food issues. that is the last time i listen to anyone about food. Half of the people on that ship didn't even understand the statement "allergic to dairy -no milk, no cream, no butter, no yoghurt". So there were a few moments of excruciating pain, etc after they tried to poison me, but that was not the most difficult bit. Once they finally got the message, they could only come up with one option ... give me the same entree every fkn night ... a fruit smoothie ...yuck! i don't like smoothies anyway, don't bother asking. Even when I ordered something else like a salad (not a nice one either) they still brought the fkn smoothie! wtf?! Too many carbs in that for me thankyou, plus I cant stomach overly sweet things, and watermelon is another allergy ... yea like they were ever gonna understand that.
Every morning i sat there and watched my bf eat his breakfast with a bowl of dry cereal in front of me, because it took ten minutes for them to find a glass of soy milk for me ... i thought i explained this ... but they never got it.
Five times in the 3 weeks they brought the soy milk, i poured it on my cereal and ate my first mouthful ... only to realise when the burning after taste that it was regular milk and they were actually trying to kill me! ugh!
For lunch I stuck to the buffet, at least that way I wouldn't be poisoned.
And every dinner ... another smoothie ...GRRR!
I was exceptionally grateful when we were in port and I could stock up on decent food so I wouldn't starve before the next port.
Why don't people understand that just because I don't eat certain foods, it doesn't mean I don't like flavour and variety.

worst holiday food ever on that stupid ship.
I was so happy to get to LA! :)

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