Re:Chocolate allergy??

[Guest guest]

Audrey,

 

     I hope you can find something for your step-mother to get a sweet tooth

over that's chocolate-free, but just as good!

 

     I sympathize with her!  It's funny, but I get (what you described) almost

the

same sort of rapid reaction, skin-wise, whenever I eat foods with HFCS (corn

syrup), corn oil (most margarines) and, to a lesser degree, corn starch, and

occasionally with soybean oil, as well.  It helps if the foods in question are

" organic " (pesticide-free), but for the corn-based foods, it just must be

something

my system doesn't tolerate.  And the " hives " (mine don't itch like regular

hives,

either!) are so annoying!

 

    Check out some of the foods at Whole Foods (in the " bins " aisle, if there is

one).

They usually have severall bulk food dispensers that have carob-based goodies.

It's been a long time since I had any, but they aren't bad.  For a die-hard,

" chocaholic " , the carob candies are sort of blah...but I remember they are also

sweet and pleasant if you avoid chocolate and want a tasty sweet to nibble on!

 

     I wish you the best in your search!  Let us know what you found and how she

liked it!

 

Best wishes for a Happy New Year!

--Laura B., in Illinois

 

You guys know everything about food -- I want to give my stepmother a treat,

she gets weird hive-type things (they look like hives but they're not itchy)

whenever she eats chocolate. We're talking, TWO M & Ms and she gets at least

one of these break-out things, it's awful! We were talking about this at

Christmas, she was very nice to me at Christmas. She misses chocolate -- I

can understand, I wouldn't know what to do without chocolate! She can

do white chocolate, so I'm betting it's the cocoa bean that does it to her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I like carob in trail mix, carob covered raisins. both from central market bulk

section.

maggie mai