I was actually searching this forum to find out if we would be charged the full price for our 100% tube fed child at a buffet (answer: probably, which is more than fine) and happened across an older thread where someone mentioned that for kids with food allergies, at a buffet, you can request that they make something specifically for your child that's safe for them and that has NOT been on the buffet line.
a) is this true? (because, awesome)
b) do you think they'd do it in our situation?
Our situation: DS is 100% tube fed for nutrition but he is learning to eat by mouth. He just doesn't eat for nutrition at this point. We encourage oral eating, but he really only eats a very few foods, and mostly chews and spits them. HOWEVER, participation in meal time is important to him and important to us for him. In addition, because he's an organ transplant recipient, he's not allowed to eat from buffets, at all, ever. DH really really wants to go to Biergarten, and I was thinking I'd just bring some food for DS and possibly put up with tantrums (he's a toddler, we think he'll be not quite 3 when we go, but it's possible we won't go until after he's 3) when we do not let him try any of our food. (And it's also entirely possible that he won't want any of our food and it'll be a total non-issue, his oral eating is difficult to predict.) BUT several of the foods they have on the buffet are ones he at least usually likes to chew. If he was having a good day, and if we'd paid for his meal (and ONLY if we'd paid for his meal), it would be lovely if we could request a made-just-for-him, not-being-sneezed-on-by-other-people bowl of something just for him.
It had not even occurred to me that was a possibility, but would be awesome (if it seemed like the thing to do at the time, lol).
a) is this true? (because, awesome)
b) do you think they'd do it in our situation?
Our situation: DS is 100% tube fed for nutrition but he is learning to eat by mouth. He just doesn't eat for nutrition at this point. We encourage oral eating, but he really only eats a very few foods, and mostly chews and spits them. HOWEVER, participation in meal time is important to him and important to us for him. In addition, because he's an organ transplant recipient, he's not allowed to eat from buffets, at all, ever. DH really really wants to go to Biergarten, and I was thinking I'd just bring some food for DS and possibly put up with tantrums (he's a toddler, we think he'll be not quite 3 when we go, but it's possible we won't go until after he's 3) when we do not let him try any of our food. (And it's also entirely possible that he won't want any of our food and it'll be a total non-issue, his oral eating is difficult to predict.) BUT several of the foods they have on the buffet are ones he at least usually likes to chew. If he was having a good day, and if we'd paid for his meal (and ONLY if we'd paid for his meal), it would be lovely if we could request a made-just-for-him, not-being-sneezed-on-by-other-people bowl of something just for him.
It had not even occurred to me that was a possibility, but would be awesome (if it seemed like the thing to do at the time, lol).