Thanks so much for your responses. I think I'm doing fairly well eliminating milk from foods at home by reading the ingredients. Although, sometimes I'm not sure. For instance...Cool Whip is supposedly a non-dairy product, but from the ingredients list, way at the bottom, it contains sodium caseinate (a dairy product, right?) I've still been eating that (Cool Whip Free, so it's nonfat) should I stop with that? At least until I am more stable? What about the little packets of "non-dairy creamer"? (I threw away my box, pre-IBS...I guess I might just have to go over to the grocery and stand in the aisles and read their box!--I might have to do that for several things...)
Also, how do you know possibly eat out without making a total annoyance of yourself, and then you still may not be sure that you are getting what you need. I mean, I can conceive of asking "Please do not put chees on my sandwich" or "Do you butter this entree in the cooking process" but I'm afraid that I don't know all the questions to ask, or that the servers wouldn't know the answers. Do you generally assume that a safe food (white bread, for instance) will be safe in restruants? Do people ever put dairy products in bread? Is that something to watch for also?
Today for instance, at dinnertime I'll be 100 miles from home, and at the whims of some restruant for a celebration for my sister. I'd like there to be something I could order, and celebrate her, but I don't want to mess up the progress I've made. I mean, having a few bites of something that accidentally was buttered or something (not that I plan to!!!) wouldn't kill me (thank gooddess...I'm so glad I don't have true food allergies), but it's a celebration, and would certainly ruin my disposition.
How do you balance eating with others and being polite with taking care of your needs? Or are there restruant type foods that are almost always safe, and unlikely for a restruant to "mess up"?
I guess dairy is the one I'm most concerned about; red meat and most other things seem pretty obvious in how to avoid them, but it seems like dairy might just sneak into foods...
Thanks again...
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