Vacation travel can be tricky when you are following a specific WOE. Primal eating in a strange place isn’t exactly the easiest thing, especially when the bulk of your eating comes from restaurants, (or even gas stations!)
I splurged yesterday when we found a Tim Horton’s in Maine, and got a large iced cappuccino. I thought it was weird when they were asking me about caramel drizzles, and whipped cream. (I have never come across that in Canada.) I only ordered the ice cap, no extra drizzle.
I drank it, after testing normalish. I tell you it was a HELL of a lot sweeter than in Canada.
Later, while driving, I could feel my body starting to act weird. I tested, and found myself at 12.7 mmol! (I should be between 5 and 7 after 2 hours by even CDA standards.)
After a correction dose, I had to eat ultra-low carb for lunch, because I had another 6 hours of driving.
There, that’s what NOT to do.
Later, to continue my WOE, I found myself at a restaurant in St. Andrews called “The Gables.”
The menu stated the burgers are not premade, so the wait could take 20 minutes. A good sign. I ordered up a burger with a Greek salad, no bun and extra lettuce for the burger wrap.
The waitress understood that I “was gluten-free,” so I said yes, and all was good.
That’s how you do it. You may have to be firm, or explain a bit – but you are the customer, and have the right to eat how you want. Sure, vacation travel is a good reason to throw away the WOE, but you also pay for it later.
Here was my meal last night, taken with an iPhone. Not food porn material, but you get the gist!
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My days of drinking iced cappuccinos/frappuccinos/whatever trendy name they’re given these days are waaaaaaay behind me, mostly because of the experience you described – and they simply are not worth it. Also, you couldn’t drag me into a Tim Horton’s with a chainfall, because if I go into a Tim Horton’s, I’m coming out of Tim Horton’s with at least two honey crullers, and we just do NOT want to go there. Nope, nope, nope.
Your dinner looks AWESOME – I’d say it qualifies for food porn status. I just love it when the waitstaff “gets it” when you tell them no bun/bread. We’ve had clueless waiters not bring the bread with our entree, but still bring the bread basket to the table and/or throw croutons on the salad.
@Jan – I hear you there! In Canada it isn’t so bad, but I think they must use something else to sweeten the drink or make it even sweeter. That had never happened to me back home.
I am not a fan of donuts anymore, so no worries there. I just tend to stay away from caffeine these days though.