Saturday, September 9, 2006 by Amy
Our family went shopping yesterday at the Whole Foods Market to find some food that I could actually eat in light of Avery's newly-diagnosed allergies. I feel so sorry for Avery. With all of the milk and eggs that I've been eating since she's been born, she's probably been living in chronic pain and discomfort her whole life. That's probably why the scratch test didn't bother her at all. And her recent extreme fussiness could probably be explained by the huge egg breakfast I ate at IHOP while camping, and the Earth's Best pear apple oatmeal that I fed her that contains eggs. Poor little thing. We also went to the library and got a book on vegan cooking, but it is way way way out of my league. We got a vegetarian cookbook, but it's tiring trying to find the recipies that don't have milk or eggs. We did find Vegetarian Times Magazine that has a cool index in the back which indicates which recipies are dairy-free and egg-free and so forth. And the dishes have pictures. Call me a snob, but if a dish looks like dookie I'm not going to cook it, or eat it. Pictures are a must. Our problem when we shop at Whole Foods is that we go around like we're shopping at Walmart, grabbing things off the shelf and end up paying well over a hundred dollars on a couple day's worth of food. We have to learn to eat better and eat less. I just hope that I don't get violently ill like I did last time I tried to give up dairy.
