Juuuulieeee

[colormist]

I finally got around to telling my brother about our doppleganger family that lives on the west coast. He was okay with:
-a female my age
- that has hfi
- that was recently confirmed with hfi
- that has a younger brother

and his eyes started to get big when I said:
- that also has hfi
- but is unconfirmed
- that is in the army
- and is about his age

I had people over this weekend. One on the low-carb diet, the other that doesn't have a diet, and the other that's HFI (being my brother). I had a bit of a difficulty trying to figure out what to buy grocery-wise. At least my brother was happy with all the food in my house. Though I did know how the other two felt, but at least they wouldn't get sick if they ate shredded wheat and cheetos.

[julienc]

Too funny!!! It is awfully bizarre how many similarities we have. (Oh, but for the record, he's older, I'm the youngest.)

When I first told my brother about HFI, he seemed totally un-interested. But as I've spent more time with him, it turns out he's turning into Mr. Label Reader. He even caught my mom with a big jar of DILL pickles in her fridge that had high fructose corn syrup in them. DILL pickles with hfcs - honestly, what is the world coming to?

Sounds like you had your dietary hands full this weekend. I always love visiting my brother, though, since he has all the safe snack foods on hand.

[colormist]

My brother, this past weekend, said he wanted a list of all the foods he shouldn't eat. I told him it would be a shorter list if I gave him everything he COULD eat. So, he's showing interest in his liver as well.

I've seen those pickles!! I ran across sauerkraut that had sugar in it, too. I was like WTF?? It's SOURkraut, not SWEETkraut.

[meaniejean]

Just had to chime in to say that my little brother with suspected HFI was also in the military. He is now a trucker and we just joked the other day that now that he is getting serious about the diet he needs a full fridge in his truck!