Eating Out?! BLECH!

I have a problem. I know too much about food. This makes me a very undesirable dinner guest and someone who squirms at the thought of eating out - anywhere!

Let's start with coffee. I do enjoy a cup now and then at home because I have clean water to make it with and coffee that is shade ground and fair traded. I add a dash of raw milk that is from the organic dairy in the next town over. But having coffee out? City water with that lovely dash of fluoride - blech! And milk that has not only been pasteurized which destroys the enzymes one needs to digest the milk in the first place - but homogenized which releases the OX enzyme factor which is connected to heart disease. See - coffee out with Bethanne is not a great idea. You won't find it fun. You should see what happens if they serve it in styrofoam cups :-S The making of styrofoam releases fluorocarbons into the environment! Stop it now!

Then there is the oil issue. At home I have coconut oil for eating and saute. I use butter by the pound and in the summer I make fresh raw butter from grass fed cow's milk. Yummy! and so good for you - so high in CLA! Not to mention a special olive oil from California (see radiantlifecatalog.com for details) for all my salads - and my salad dressings that are made with fresh egg yolks (raw of course) from pastured hens. Eating out? One faces the canola oil issue. Who invented this? Most of it is GMO which means - most likely - all of it is contaminated. This crap leaches the vitamin E right out of your body. Yup - sucks it dry. Won't touch the stuff - yet it is everywhere.

That is the tip of the iceberg where foods are concerned. Meats - won't touch anything that is not raised properly and kindly. Everything not only has to be organic - but need to know where it was grown and how. Organic is a word like natural. Too vague!

So here's the problem - and maybe you can help me out. I have an author's breakfast on Cape Cod coming up and I need to broach the subject of bringing my own food. Now I know many people do this because of allergy issues and special diets due to illness. My case is ethics. It is very challenging to me because of not wanting to insult anyone - but where do you draw the line? For breakfast I don't eat pastries or eggs of unknown origin. Won't touch margarine or bread from unsoaked flour (Phytic acid issue). Kinda leaves me hanging - yet - insulting to my host?

Where does one draw the line of what you will and won't put in your body. Should I show up with my little glass container of breakfast and thermos of raw milk? Should I leave that in the hotel room and let them serve me - not eat - then run back to the hotel and down my food?!