Crying over milk, spilled or otherwise, just milk. Just a heads up, I may be using the blog to vent through some of the emotions I’m dealing (not well) with since learning of my many food allergies. I know things could be worse and blah blah blah, don’t really wanna hear all that right now. So, if you don’t want to hear me whining about what’s really going on with me, then please do feel absolutely free to ignore any future food posts.
For those of you without Facebook who may not have heard, (long story cut short) I have been allergy tested not only for environmental allergens, but also for foods. No big surprise, I reacted positively to many types of allergens: dust mites, cats, dogs, grasses, molds, trees, weeds, and fungi. I also responded to tomato, cantaloupe, peas, green pepper, carrot, coffee, peanut, coco bean, and lactalbumin–a protein in DAIRY! And the only treatment for food allergy is avoidance, so… that is a lot for me to learn how to avoid. I’m really struggling with trying to figure out what I’m left with. I’ve started to make a list of things that I can eat, but they don’t easily turn into any meals. In a fit I drove to Hy-Vee’s health market to try different expensive milk substitutes and to check out other dairy substitutes, only to find that non-dairy cheeses and vegan butter use pea protein. I bought four different kinds of non-dairy milk (coconut vanilla, almond, almond vanilla, and rice) and while the rice is still chilling in the refrigerator because it did not come chilled, I tried all the others and…literally stood crying over milk. Yuk. I feel like such a baby.