"White flour"

[Madeleine]

If someone can't have 'white flour,' and I didn't ask why not, does that mean they can or cannot have 'unbleached flour'? I assume it means just use something else like whole wheat or rye or corn meal.

 

[Generic]

Azodicarbonamide is the only difference between white flour and unbleached flour. It's a bleaching agent adding at the rate of less than 45 ppm.
I would assume it means both white and unbleached. But I would ask them. It's likely another person with self-diagnosed Orthorexia Nervosa

 

[Tom]

I would treat it the same as "gluten-free" – some personal issue with baked goods. It may be an objection to refined foods which comes up with people who don't want to eat white rice, white bread, or white sugar.
I once volunteered to cook baklava for a benefit fair. It turned out great, and it was selling like mad. A father and his eight-year-old appeared and the father asked, if there was white sugar in it. I yes, the syrup is half honey and half white sugar because if it's all honey it tastes too strong and gets too brown. The father goes "oh no, we can't eat that" and walked away. His poor kid looked crushed.

 

[Madeleine]

I would treat it the same as "gluten-free" – some personal issue with baked goods. It may be an objection to refined foods which comes up with people who don't want to eat white rice, white bread, or white sugar.
I once volunteered to cook baklava for a benefit fair. It turned out great, and it was selling like mad. A father and his eight-year-old appeared and the father asked, if there was white sugar in it. I yes, the syrup is half honey and half white sugar because if it's all honey it tastes too strong and gets too brown. The father goes "oh no, we can't eat that" and walked away. His poor kid looked crushed..

Oh, good idea. We have gf bread.

 

[Silverspoon]

They are probably trying to get more fiber in their carbs by choosing whole grains rather than processed white flour. Pep ridge Farm makes a whole wheat white that is quite good and doubles nicely for white bread, but with more fiber.

 

[Madeleine]

Shall we not even get into what I was told on arrival?
"I can eat anything."
Please tell that to the person making the reservation then.
And on the same note - STOP speaking for another adult.

 

[happykeeper]

Shall we not even get into what I was told on arrival?
"I can eat anything."
Please tell that to the person making the reservation then.
And on the same note - STOP speaking for another adult..

What's the big deal here? We use very little white flour and when we travel and we often look to avoid white flour. So someone tells you they don't eat white flour and then they figure they won't worry about it and switch out at check-in. So what?

 

[Donald Draper]

Shall we not even get into what I was told on arrival?
"I can eat anything."
Please tell that to the person making the reservation then.
And on the same note - STOP speaking for another adult..

What's the big deal here? We use very little white flour and when we travel and we often look to avoid white flour. So someone tells you they don't eat white flour and then they figure they won't worry about it and switch out at check-in. So what?
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The "big deal" for me would be if you notified me that you don't eat X, and we typically serve X, now I go out of my way to get you Y (because we rarely serve Y we don't/can't stock it). So now I've made a special trip and extra expense for you, because you specifically requested something non-X, and now you don't want it. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted food...

 

[EmptyNest]

Shall we not even get into what I was told on arrival?
"I can eat anything."
Please tell that to the person making the reservation then.
And on the same note - STOP speaking for another adult..

What's the big deal here? We use very little white flour and when we travel and we often look to avoid white flour. So someone tells you they don't eat white flour and then they figure they won't worry about it and switch out at check-in. So what?
.

The "big deal" for me would be if you notified me that you don't eat X, and we typically serve X, now I go out of my way to get you Y (because we rarely serve Y we don't/can't stock it). So now I've made a special trip and extra expense for you, because you specifically requested something non-X, and now you don't want it. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted food...
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I would always keep some gluten free bread in the freezer or some sort of mix. These days you are sure to need it. However I would be very tempted to print out the lasted article in the consumer magazine about gluten free...and if they aren't truly celiac...give them whatever!

 

[Madeleine]

Shall we not even get into what I was told on arrival?
"I can eat anything."
Please tell that to the person making the reservation then.
And on the same note - STOP speaking for another adult..

What's the big deal here? We use very little white flour and when we travel and we often look to avoid white flour. So someone tells you they don't eat white flour and then they figure they won't worry about it and switch out at check-in. So what?
.

The "big deal" for me would be if you notified me that you don't eat X, and we typically serve X, now I go out of my way to get you Y (because we rarely serve Y we don't/can't stock it). So now I've made a special trip and extra expense for you, because you specifically requested something non-X, and now you don't want it. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted food...
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Totally agree that buying Y because they can't eat X and then they don't bother to eat at all is very annoying.
We do now stock gf bread for toast (for those non-celiacs), gf pancake mix and gf sausage.
Also have veggie sausage and turkey sausage.
One guest apparently doesn't eat anything non-organic, no sugar, no wheat, no fruit (because of the sugar) and a couple of other things I missed. My take? You eat bacon, don't talk to me about your healthy diet. ;-)

 

[happykeeper]

Shall we not even get into what I was told on arrival?
"I can eat anything."
Please tell that to the person making the reservation then.
And on the same note - STOP speaking for another adult..

What's the big deal here? We use very little white flour and when we travel and we often look to avoid white flour. So someone tells you they don't eat white flour and then they figure they won't worry about it and switch out at check-in. So what?
.

The "big deal" for me would be if you notified me that you don't eat X, and we typically serve X, now I go out of my way to get you Y (because we rarely serve Y we don't/can't stock it). So now I've made a special trip and extra expense for you, because you specifically requested something non-X, and now you don't want it. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted food...
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Well there you have it. I say to you on the phone my husband avoids white flour, then, he tells me after, no, I am on vacation, let's not worry about too much. I say okay. We show up and he says he's fine with anything. the innkeeper gets bug up their bonnet and goes to some PUBLIC forum to rake me over the coals for changing my mind.
Really?