5. Buying Alternatives to Allergens
There are many allergens where we can say that the foods you should be avoiding are extremely obvious – for example, in the case of a wheat allergy you will very obviously want to avoid anything that contains flour, like cupcakes, cake, and bread; this will also include things like pizza. With an egg allergy, you will want to avoid cake and anything else that very obviously contains an egg – you wouldn’t go eating a scrambled egg breakfast if you are allergic.
Once you’re in the grocery store to make your pick of what you should buy, then you should learn to always check for allergen-free alternatives to your favorite products – in most cases, there is something available that is close to your favorite product but doesn’t contain the allergen that you should stay away from. There is, for example, egg-free mayonnaise and gluten-free pasta – and that’s only two examples of a thousand different ones that you can buy if you have an allergy.