Doesn't this look delicious? I made a big lasagna dinner at work for my coworkers and kids in the shelter Monday night. Normally we have food made and delivered by a company who cooks for other housing programs, but we wanted to do something fun and different this week. Our Italian Family Feast, as we called it, included a selection of meat and cheese lasagnas, salad, garlic bread, and sparkling cider followed by tiramisu for dessert. It was really fun to have staff stay late, come in during their time off, and invite some of our volunteers over, too. But back to the point of this post...Now a couple of my co-workers are sick, and they suggested that it was my food that has caused this! This seems to be a logical and reasonable thought for someone who finds themselves eating food that was previously unfamiliar to them. But I promise I didn't poison them! I responded to the email that mentioned the illnesses and suggested we toss the leftovers and let them know I had been sick with the flu last week and over the weekend, and had passed it on to about 10 other people during that time. I tried to assure them that it probably wasn't food poisoning, rather just a fierce flu bug.
I'm bummed that I spent alot of time and had good intentions in making a nice dinner, and people think it was old, spoiled, undercooked, etc. food. I understand how they could question it, but it still makes me feel a little bad about it :(
I hate getting blamed for something that obviously was not your fault! Ugh!
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