Max and Erma’s menu is fairly limited as far as soy-free fare, but they more than make up for it by their willingness to prepare custom dishes for our kids. Our waitress Gabrielle was more than willing to make regular trips back to the kitchen to check on ingredients for us. They do fry in … Read more
Unfortunately, they fry in a soybean oil mixture, but fortunately, there are still a whole lot of options still available. So needless to say all of the fried items are off limits, which is most of the appetizers. So no Samosas, Pakodas, or Batada Wada. The Murgh Tikka is okay. All of the Naan bread … Read more
Wonderful News! Our kids can eat at Carrabba’s Italian Grill. I haven’t seen him this happy at a restaurant in a long time. Most Italian restaurants “cool” their pasta in soybean oil to keep the pasta from sticking together. That and sneaky doses of soybean oil in the pasta sauces make it extremely difficult to … Read more
Not to rehash my “just tell me if there’s soy in it” rant, but we just got a Twizzlers Watermelon Pull ‘n’ Peel candy handed to our kids at a parade. The wrapper says “Allergy Information: Contains WHEAT and SULFITES.”. Which as you all know for those of us with soy allergies, that doesn’t tell … Read more
More interesting news on the pizza front. After learning last week about Donatos gluten (and possibly unintentionally soy) free pizza, we’ve now learned that East of Chicago Pizza may not contain soy. I stress “may not” because we can say that they use corn oil in their crust instead of soybean oil, which is wonderful … Read more
I just found out some wonderful news from our local Donatos. Starting next week, Donatos will be offering a gluten free crust. The good news is that the crust is made by Udi’s, so as an added benefit, it has no soybean oil in it. You can order them in the restaurant and there’s a … Read more
Well, that was a semi false positive last November. Now I’m just confused. Before I get into it, I do want to give kudos to Chipotle for at least having the decency of telling us if there’s soybean oil in their food. As you can see on the chart, they at least mark in a … Read more
Thanks to Sarah for this heads up about Qdoba: “I just wanted to let you know that QDoba is another restaurant that cooks everything in soybean oil.” Sarah sent me the link to Qdoba’s allergen & ingredient list, and sure enough they’re playing the “soybean oil isn’t made of soy” game. A quick look at … Read more
Apparently something has changed in the last two years. Read the comments below, as this information seems to be outdated now According to Sonia, they’re using vegetable oil, but 5 days earlier Patti says “beef tallow” Popeyes’ fries the way things are supposed to be fried, in LARD! None of this we-pretend-to-be-healthy-but-really-crazy-bad-for-you soybean oil. Give … Read more
Our kids are the only kids in America that are tired of McDonald’s because, so far, that’s been one of the few fast-food restaurants where we can reliably get say-free meal for them.
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Because "most" people do not have a reaction to highly refined soybean oil, most restaurants and food labels will not even list food as containing soy if it "merely" contains soybean oil. [read more]
