She Declined To Share Her Gluten-Free Meal With A Pregnant Friend While Out To Breakfast And Got Called Selfish
When you have a food allergy and need to order special items aside from your friends’ orders while out to eat, normally, you wouldn’t expect your friends to want a bunch of your food.
One woman recently refused to give some of her gluten-free breakfast to a pregnant woman in her friend group while out to eat.
She recently found out that she is allergic to gluten, and this news was a big help to her, as she had been dealing with unexplained nausea and indigestion for years. Now, she’s cut gluten out of her diet entirely and avoids foods with even small traces of gluten.
Recently, she was invited out to breakfast with her friend group and let them know about her allergy, so they settled on a high-end restaurant that was attentive to food allergies and had gluten-free options.
In her friend group, there’s a couple named Emma and Via who are expecting their first child. Via is pregnant, and when they arrived at the restaurant, Via mentioned she wasn’t going to order any food since she had been experiencing morning sickness.
“Everyone understood and offered to let her just have a few bites off their plates so she could still have something nice, even if it was just a little,” she explained.
“I didn’t agree with this, though, since if they were going to be sharing with each other, I couldn’t take part.”
She told her friends she didn’t want to share her food, especially since she wouldn’t be able to try anyone else’s because of her allergy. All of her friends understood, but when their food came out, and Via was sampling a bit of everyone’s food, she specifically asked if she could have some of hers.
She politely declined, explaining once again that her plate of food was the only food she’d have, so she didn’t want to share. Via argued with her, saying that her pregnancy cravings were kicking in and that she really wanted to try her gluten-free plate of pancakes and eggs.
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Then, Emma chimed in and told her she could at least share half her plate and order more food if she was still hungry. However, she didn’t want to do that because the restaurant was already pricey, and her gluten-free food was more expensive than everyone else’s.
Her other friends began sticking up for her, yet Emma and Via continued to argue with everyone. Via accused her of turning their group against her and said she felt “shamed” for being pregnant and hungry.
“I told her if she’d gotten her appetite back, she could always order herself a plate so she didn’t need to rely on anyone sharing their food,” she recalled.
“Via went off at this and told me about all the things she’s needed to pay for in preparation for her and Emma’s baby.”
Suddenly, she snapped and told Via that while she chose to get pregnant, she didn’t choose to have a gluten allergy, and she didn’t want to lose her food to someone who was getting a free meal from everyone else’s plates.
Via began crying, so she and Emma abruptly left the table without leaving any money for the bill.
“No one blamed me since I was right, but Emma sent me a message telling me I could’ve just said no and left it at that instead of embarrassing Via in front of all her friends,” she added.
“I’m starting to feel very guilty. I didn’t want either of them to leave; I just wanted her to stop trying to leverage her pregnancy against me as a way to get the only food I could eat.”
Should she feel guilty for not letting Via eat off her plate?
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