Navigating social events

Whenever I’m invited out I always let my host and hostess know about what I can eat well ahead of time. It saves embarrassment and many do pick it up as a challenge. It certainly provides something to talk about during the meal as many a host will actually look out for something that they’ve never cooked before and  we eating low carb gives them just the excuse they need to try something new often getting out of their comfort zone.

If I’m going to the restaurant I’ve not been to before I found the best way of dealing with that is to either get hold of the menu to make sure there is something tasty and low carbly nutritious or following that ring up the restaurant and tell them that you will be coming and you have a low carb preference, can they do anything to help you.

I have yet to have a refusal for that as again there are very few restaurants who wish to turn down business. As far as going to something that revolves around the buffet, if the host or the hostess does not seem to be fruitful then I found the easiest way is to take a Tupperware box with food that I can eat and I eat it with everybody else I have to say. Again it does provide an exceptionally good topic of conversation as people not only ask what you’re eating but why are you eating it as well.

The bottom line is to take charge of any situation where you are eating with others. By taking charge of the situation you know you’re going to enjoy the food that you eat, you know that your host or hostess is not going to be embarrassed in front of others because they’ve had time to plan ahead and the net result is everybody feels good and enjoys their time together which is after all why we do come together to eat in the first place.

Hope that helps,

Mark

Here is a copy of the comment I made on a forum post about food preferences on social events