One of my biggest hobbies is something that started almost four years ago on that dreadful day that my doctor told me I would not be eating gluten or eggs anymore. This hobby is reading the ingredient list on all foods that I buy. Sounds fun right?
It is really not as much fun as it sounds. Yet I have gotten pretty good at skimming through labels to determine whether or not I should actually be eating it.
It is the reading of the ingredients that usually leads to the big letdown. I enter the “gluten-free” section of the grocery store and things are plastered with labels letting everyone know they are safe. That is when I discovery that yes it is gluten-free but there are eggs right there teasing me.
I was let down once again this week. A classmate let me know that the website TeamBuy was offering gluten-free products at roughly half price. I was excited about this until I started to read the ingredients. Everything they offered contained egg and I was disappointed once again.
Gluten-free products have become easier and easier to find as it becomes more common to be on a gluten-free diet. I am very grateful that it is easier to find. I just wish that more people would switch to an egg-free diet as well so those foods become easier to find. Is that really too much to ask?
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