Foods to avoid with re: Etg testing!

[hppygr8ful]

Generally speaking you want to avoid all processed foods such as salsa's, sauces, fermented soy products like miso and soy sauce. Bar-B-Q sauce. Avoid restaurants that uses a lot of sauces or gravies. A list of restaurants that people have associated with positive tests are.

Italian
Mexican
Japanese
Sushi
Pollo Loco

Specific products to avoid using at all are:

PAM cooking spray 86% grain alcohol
Listerine
Fabreeze
Hair spray
I will post a link in few minutes to a site that lists products with alcohol.

As for food you best bet is to get used to eating at home - cook fresh food, meats and veggies from the produce department - make you own sauces.

I am actually tinkiering with a cook book for people in recovery.

I need a data entry person to enter in the who can enter in this whole long list of medis that are ok to take.

Gotta go help DS with homework

Peace and Namaste

Hppygr8ful

[Skippy]

Thanks for posting this! The mexican food will be hard for me to not eat, I live in TX and love it! But, of course, I will avoid it. I wish there were more specifics, such as dishes.

Skippy

[hppygr8ful]

Originally Posted by Skippy

Thanks for posting this! The mexican food will be hard for me to not eat, I live in TX and love it! But, of course, I will avoid it. I wish there were more specifics, such as dishes.

Skippy

It's not Mexican food per se - just watch out for the sauces and salsa's. Some of the TEX-MEX stuff that use beer or tequila in the marinade will cause a positive - contrary to popular belief the alcohol does not all "cook off" and even small trace amounts can cause a positive Etg. I know of a least one person who tested positive after eating a tequila lime barbequed chicken from a place called Pollo Loco - don't know if they have those in Texas but it's a big chain here in CA.

What I ended up doing was establishing some places where my family could eat where the chef/cook understood I had a serious "Allergy" to alcohol. Due to liability issues most restaurants understand this better than hearing your an alcoholic and being tested bla, bla , bla...... PLus while my disease is no secret I see no need to parade it around while out for a family dinner at the burger joint.

Some of those restaurant even developed alcohol free recipes that sold well to other customers.

Just start reading labels and when you go out it's a good idea to keep some kind of record of what you ate so if you get a positive test you have an idea of what caused it.

Peace and Namaste

Hppy