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What’s This All About?

Food restrictions are frustrating, awkward, and sometimes completely absurd—but they’re also weirdly hilarious. If you’ve ever stared down an empty menu, survived a dinner party disaster, or been told ‘just try a little bit’, welcome. Let’s laugh through the ridiculous together.

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Stories from the absurd life of eating (almost) nothing.

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“Maybe I Have Food Allergies Too?” (And Other Things People Say Right Before They Back Away Slowly with Cheese)

A familiar conversation arc: curiosity, a few brave questions, and a quiet retreat back to pizza. Nine greatest hits from the “Wait, you can’t eat what?” universe.

A glorious plate of steak fries in a retro restaurant setting

The Steak Fry Incident (a.k.a. When the Food Gods Showed Mercy)

I caved at a meat-and-potatoes restaurant and ate a whole plate of steak fries… then waited for punishment. Shockingly: mercy.

A suspiciously normal bowl of yogurt and granola under dramatic lighting

The Protein Problem (a.k.a. The Yogurt Experiment That Shook My Family)

A desperate quest for easy protein leads to the most controversial bowl in our house: plain Greek yogurt with GF granola. What could go wrong?

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