Restaurants

Cheesecake Factory

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Thanks to Rachel for this update on Cheesecake Factory: I ate at a Cheesecake Factory a few days ago, and our wonderful waitress informed me that they only use canola oil. There were only a few menu items that I needed to avoid because of soy sauce or mayonnaise. I ate fried macaroni and cheese, … Read more

Pizzaria Uno

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Thanks to alert reader, Jodi for this information on Pizzaria Uno. I am allergic to soy too!  So finding items to eat at restaurants is a challenge.  I found at Uno’s I can eat their veggie soup and the oyster crackers that come with it and their pasta with butter (but make sure that restaurant is … Read more

Enjoy Life Chocolate Candy Bars

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Unfortunately, the world has discovered that soy lecithin is an emulsifier that is cheaper than Cocoa Butter. So, now pretty much every piece of formed chocolate in the world (including the really expensive stuff you would think would stay with Cocoa Butter, just on principle) has soy lecithin in it. Fortunately, “Enjoy Life” has come … Read more

Chick-fil-A

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I’ve never bothered with a post for Chick-fil-A. They fry their food in peanut oil, and our kids are anaphylactic to peanuts, so it seemed kind of pointless. Tragically, it appears that they also hold the same opinion about peanut oil that many restaurants hold about soybean oil, namely that the presence of soybean oil doesn’t … Read more

Hidden Sources of Soy

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Okay, it’s time to try to collect a list of the hidden soy in restaurants. There are so many items that you wouldn’t even expect to contain soy. We tend to rattle off this list when we visit a restaurant for the first time — especially when a restaurant says “We don’t use soy”. Which loosely translates … Read more

Red Robin

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Thanks to Shannon for this information about Red Robin Restaurants and the great tip about Chipotle (mostly) dumping soy: I had a good experience at Red Robin in Mesa tonight. Their website is awesome! They have a tool where you enter in your allergies and it gives you which items are safe! Then at the … Read more

We're trying to track allergen information for every restaurant that we eat at.
With our kids' soy allergy, each time we eat at a restaurant, it can take up to 30 minutes to figure out what he can eat.
Especially since most restaurants don't accurately represent their usage of soy.

We're tracking what soy free (including soybean oil free) foods our kids can eat at all restaurants we go to.
If you've got a soy allergy in your family and have any information you can share, please contact us.