Holy mole...

[primsong]

Seeking to please my DH who now can't have sugar and has missed the wonderful pollo en mole that our favorite restaurant makes, I tried making some sugar-free in the crock-pot today. Only problem - it made a LOT - good grief. I have a large crock pot up to it's lid - the plastic lid is actually floating - with sauce and chicken (mostly sauce). And then we stuffed ourselves on it and thanks to the large amounts of unsweetened chocolate in the sauce, we're all completely caffeine buzzed now. Thank goodness for freezers - I think we'd all be buzzing along on mole sauce for a week otherwise.

All this steer-around-the-ingredient stuff is coming easier to me with time - I've now learned to steer around wheat, sugar and salt. It is annoying how much prefab stuff is loaded with all of the above, I am terribly fond of lazy convenience when I can get it.

How's the food allergy situation in your house? Or are you one of the lucky ones who can eat anything they like?

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[adaras-r0se.livejournal.com]

We use fructose rather than sucrose in our house. We used to totally avoid refined sugar of any kind, but have gradually slipped back into eating evil chocolate. Maybe we'll give it another go at some point!

Hubby is allergic to most fruit (few exceptions are bananas, grapes, pineapple, avacado and strawberries, providing he doesn't have too many), unless it's cooked; he gets that unpleasant lip/tounge tingling that can, without adrenalin, lead to throat swelling. Luckily, he doesn't tend to react that violently. I have to avoid too much cheese, or I get migraines, and too much cocoa-rich dark chocolate, the 70% variety, has the same effect. Other than that, we're pretty easy to cater for!

I have friends who, between them, have allergies to wheat, MSG, cilantro, mushrooms and all kinds of other things which, whilst not necessarily allergens, provoke a less than pleasant reaction in the consumer (the urge to vomit due to the texture of something is not a problem I have, thankfully!).

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Fructose is great! I've tried all kinds of sweeteners (agave, xylitol, splenda) but fructose is the one we go to almost all the time. Sure a lot cheaper than the others. Trader Joes has a good sugar-free dark chocolate (maltitol)...

We are thankfully free of any truly nasty reactions if we slip up - it would be much harder if you were someone who had to live in real fear of accidently eating something wrong.