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When I was In the hospital, after my MRI exam apparently showed nothing amiss in my brain and carotids, at about 11:30 am, a member of the food service staff showed up in my room, and advised me that my doctor had issued orders for them to provide a meal that would accommodate my diet, and he was there to take my order. He said that he would prepare anything that I wanted.
I was, to put it mildly, gobsmacked.I told him that rather than to go to all that trouble, there were probably some items that were on the regular menu, that would be safe for me to eat, since the only item that I had to totally avoid was gluten, and due to the fact that I no longer have a colon, I needed to minimize fiber, so salads were not an option. He suggested baked chicken or baked fish, and a baked potato, and so we agreed on chicken for lunch, and fish for the evening meal. Unfortunately, I was allowed to go home before the evening meal, so I didn't get to try the fish. The chicken was good, though, and so was the baked potato.
The only fly in the ointment showed up when I searched for some salt to put on the potato. There was sour cream, and bacon bits, (both of which I declined), but the only thing resembling salt, was a small package labeled "Sodium Free Seasoning Blend". I almost opened it and sprinkled it on the potato, but then I decided to read the ingredient list on the back, (in very tiny print, of course). I was glad that I had my glasses with me, because it said:
Ingredients: corn and wheat flour, dehydrated onion and garlic, natural flavors and yeast extract, spices,hydrolyzed soy protein, extractive of paprika
Contains wheat and soy.
Needless to say, I was mighty glad that I had decided to go to the trouble of trying to read that fine print. That's probably part of their regular seasoning pack, and he never thought about it possibly containing gluten.
Tex
or better said maybe messing it up
