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Rainbow
Guest
Any time I find myself going for a week to any event, I try to make the best food choices. It isn't
always possible, and you have to trade off alot. In this one circumstance, though, I am the winner.
The convention, one for family comedy entertainers, the Great Clown Adventure has been held at
Circus CIrcus Las Vegas, literally a 3 minute walk from my apartment. The food there, like most
hotel casinos is plentiful, but Circus Circus is an insider joke with alot of locals. The coffee
shop is horrible and the buffet like a cattle call. And you can't trust anything that says sugar
free. We asked one of the chefs what that meant and we got the old "sweetened with fruit juice
ploy", and concentrated juice at that ! And you simply would not want to bet your life on the fat
and sugar content of most things. And meat from the carving station is sometimes processed. Lord
alone knows what is actually in it. You can make choices and MAYBE not get oatmeal with sugar it,
but why fight it. And the gift shop has only $2 12oz. sodas available. Courtesy drink service last
year was great because the sweetner of choice was Splenda and there were diet drinks available.
Again this year, we are doing what we've done before, and taking our own food, drinks and snacks. I
often wonder how many people never leave home without a back up supply of something, in case there
is nothing acceptable. I just don't want to take any chances, or have an uncomfortable moment where
I have to try to figure out just what is in that mystery meat patty, or if the prime rib is loaded
with added salt. Not to mention that food is pretty expensive. I certainly do not want to have a
high sugar incident becausei missed something ! I have a really cool compartmentalized portable
cooler / lunchbox and we prepared and pre-plastic-bagged all of our snack food. Last year, the
awards banquet was a nightmare. And we have attended other conventions at a different casino, where
the well meaning staff, thought that diabetic dohuts were cake style donuts without sugar glaze. And
one lunch desert, carrot cake, a piece big enough for a family of three, was swimming in a puddle of
caramel sauce. They didn;t put mine in the puddle of sauce, I am after all a diabetic ! I am pretty
controlled in the way I eat out, but at the buffets here it can be tricky. For that reason, we have
passed up the barbeque lunch as well. Also, a nightmare last year. Barbeque beans ( full of sugar )
and corn on the cob FLOATING in a pool of butter, well, maybe it was margarine, fried potatoes,
apple pie, macaroni salad with enough mayo to choke a mule. So today I will be preparing and
freezing foods for lunch and dinner for the week, and organizing my personal meal times. No, I am
not obsessed, just very concerned about not passing out from lack of food or falling asleep in class
from too much sugar. They have been very tolerant of me. Nobody's made a big deal of it. It just
came up last night as we were getting stuff together, that we didn't think that anyone really went
this far. That is, until I got my class info in the mail and saw that someone had made mention that
people with dietary problems, should come prepared. I'll be the one toting my own fresh fruit,
unsweetened applesauce, yogurt, chicken breast dish (spicy !) , sugarfree jello and candies. My
little "obsession" with my little diabetes problem goes on ... I am looking forward to the
competitions, and such and the conversation pit where we set up our picnics last year outside the
dealer's room. We met alot of nice folks we might not have, if we hadn't been dinig there .. Rainbow
always possible, and you have to trade off alot. In this one circumstance, though, I am the winner.
The convention, one for family comedy entertainers, the Great Clown Adventure has been held at
Circus CIrcus Las Vegas, literally a 3 minute walk from my apartment. The food there, like most
hotel casinos is plentiful, but Circus Circus is an insider joke with alot of locals. The coffee
shop is horrible and the buffet like a cattle call. And you can't trust anything that says sugar
free. We asked one of the chefs what that meant and we got the old "sweetened with fruit juice
ploy", and concentrated juice at that ! And you simply would not want to bet your life on the fat
and sugar content of most things. And meat from the carving station is sometimes processed. Lord
alone knows what is actually in it. You can make choices and MAYBE not get oatmeal with sugar it,
but why fight it. And the gift shop has only $2 12oz. sodas available. Courtesy drink service last
year was great because the sweetner of choice was Splenda and there were diet drinks available.
Again this year, we are doing what we've done before, and taking our own food, drinks and snacks. I
often wonder how many people never leave home without a back up supply of something, in case there
is nothing acceptable. I just don't want to take any chances, or have an uncomfortable moment where
I have to try to figure out just what is in that mystery meat patty, or if the prime rib is loaded
with added salt. Not to mention that food is pretty expensive. I certainly do not want to have a
high sugar incident becausei missed something ! I have a really cool compartmentalized portable
cooler / lunchbox and we prepared and pre-plastic-bagged all of our snack food. Last year, the
awards banquet was a nightmare. And we have attended other conventions at a different casino, where
the well meaning staff, thought that diabetic dohuts were cake style donuts without sugar glaze. And
one lunch desert, carrot cake, a piece big enough for a family of three, was swimming in a puddle of
caramel sauce. They didn;t put mine in the puddle of sauce, I am after all a diabetic ! I am pretty
controlled in the way I eat out, but at the buffets here it can be tricky. For that reason, we have
passed up the barbeque lunch as well. Also, a nightmare last year. Barbeque beans ( full of sugar )
and corn on the cob FLOATING in a pool of butter, well, maybe it was margarine, fried potatoes,
apple pie, macaroni salad with enough mayo to choke a mule. So today I will be preparing and
freezing foods for lunch and dinner for the week, and organizing my personal meal times. No, I am
not obsessed, just very concerned about not passing out from lack of food or falling asleep in class
from too much sugar. They have been very tolerant of me. Nobody's made a big deal of it. It just
came up last night as we were getting stuff together, that we didn't think that anyone really went
this far. That is, until I got my class info in the mail and saw that someone had made mention that
people with dietary problems, should come prepared. I'll be the one toting my own fresh fruit,
unsweetened applesauce, yogurt, chicken breast dish (spicy !) , sugarfree jello and candies. My
little "obsession" with my little diabetes problem goes on ... I am looking forward to the
competitions, and such and the conversation pit where we set up our picnics last year outside the
dealer's room. We met alot of nice folks we might not have, if we hadn't been dinig there .. Rainbow
no, they are not