A jounal written by an adult with the rare genetic disorder, PKU, approaching middle age and struggling with issues of diet, weight gain and the propect of diabetes.
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
The Devil's in the Detail
I think it can be said that I can have good ideas. Yes, that's great, but I'm not very practical. Here is one of my latest, not very practical ideas.
I would like to set up a pku, or special diets, meal delivery progamme. The food would look good (hopefully) taste good, be low protein and come with all the relevant nutritional information. There is a company in Scotland that does a similar thing. However, it seems to operate as part of a larger catering operation.
The biggest problem in setting such a service up in Australia is one of cost. Low protein products are incredibly expensive here and you'd probably go broke before it got off the ground. But damn it! It's such a good idea! Having discovered the awful truth about people with pku not eating vegetables, something has to be done. So if the food is already made and delivered to your door, what could be easier?
There has to be a way to set this up here. Maybe there is some sort of funding available, it is a one off kind of thing. I don't know. I'm starting to rave again.