At my work we frequently have events where lunch is provided, and that consists of finger food such as sandwiches, wraps and pastries. They are very keen on accommodating "proper" nutritional requirements such as vegetarian, vegan, gluten free and various religious requirements.
The diet I have chosen to control my weight is a fairly relaxed low carb diet, basically just avoiding processed carbohydrates such as bread. I have not had the confidence to ask for this to be considered as a dietary requirement as I understand it is hard to cater for. I have used one of the following measures:
- Eat the lunch as usual. While a single meal will not ruin the diet, as my body craves such carbohydrates if I eat some of the finger food it just makes me more hungry unless I eat loads, and this is not good for me.
- Skip lunch. This is doable, but my body does not like being deprived of lunch and I am less productive in the afternoon if I do so.
- Eat a small lunch. This tends to leave me more hungry than skipping lunch because of the above craving. I am less productive in the afternoon than if I skip it completely.
- Bring my own lunch and sneak off somewhere to eat alone. This misses the all important networking / discussion that occurs over lunch. My lunches tend to be a little unconventional and are not really finger food so I do not feel comfortable eating with everyone else while they eat sandwiches.
Is this the sort of thing most people would mention and try be accommodated? Or would most people try and handle it themselves?