NO Safe Approach for me just now.
02/05/04 11:13 AM
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Kandee
Reged: 05/22/03
Posts: 3206
Loc: USA, Southern California
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Chocolate, no wait—it's really cocoa that is my weakness. I've been so bad lately I was spiking my morning protein smoothies with extra cocoa and sugar, and eating so many of SharonMello's FF brownies, and the FF Hot fudge brownies that last week I started to get the tell tail signs of food allergy….the hives, esophageal spasms, feeling generally really sick, etc. Signs I know well from the past 25 years of being allergic to wheat. I knew I'd been good about the wheat/gluten, so it wasn't that…it had to be the cocoa. (If someone has a tendency towards food allergies, then they can become allergic pretty fast to a DIFFERENT common food allergen if they consistently OD on it….….it's a vicious cycle and one that calls for constant moderate consumption of everything that could be an allergy trigger.) So, off cocoa, and feeling fine now…………but that craving is still so right there. I have, staring me in the face a bag of carob, to make the brownies and put in the smoothies, but as anyone who has every had to switch from cocoa to carob will tell you…."it just isn't the same!"  So now, I'm getting up enough nerve to sub the carob, and then condition my mind to make it satisfy that cocoa craving. (Sigh) Tell me I'll get through this, please. 
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