I get ice cream cravings about 4-5 times per year, but my tummy can NOT handle it - so I tend to pick up a nice vegan alternate instead. Usually I will get something by Rice Dream or Purely Decadent, but the other day I was craving vanilla & found some tofutti at my "regular" grocery store. How cool, I thought, not to have to stop at a second store for once! Now I am sitting here, absolutely clogged up with congestion. Honestly, I think I might as well have eaten the ice cream with how my upper-body is responding. I'd think it's seasonal allergies, but I am NOT all sniffly-sneezy and my eyes aren't itchy, so that's not terribly likely. I'd think perhaps it was cross-contamination with wheat somehow, except that usually brings about a completely different reaction as well. And the only new food I've tried in the past MONTH is this tofutti. I do eat tofu, alternate between soy & almond milk, and do eat shelled soybeans so I know my body doesn't have a problem with tofu - or soy, in general. Has anyone else experienced this though? At this point it looks like I've found one additional food to avoid, but I'd love to know what specifically I'm avoiding here - ingredient wise, if anyone has any clues. love, mom
It's supposed to be - I thought of that too, but this is NOT my typical "glutened" reaction. Honestly, it's the same congested symptoms I would have had if I'd eaten dairy ice cream, without the tummy issues. Really weird. And of course the next day I was feeling much better. I'm gonna try it one more time in about a month, just in case it was some sort of coincidence with seasonal allergies or something else wholly related. The symptoms aren't so bad that I can't try to nail this one down, just a bit irritating. love, mom
It's Parve. Is that the "good" one, or the "just okay" one? I'd thought that was the one that meant dairy hadn't been anywhere near it. love, mom
