Let me start this by saying I love to eat. This is why I started this soy blog. To figure out what things I can eat. So these are a few of my favorite things I eat at home that are soy free and both awesomely healthy and not.
First off, I’d like to thank the God above that skittles are, in fact, soy free. I have a slight (ok ok… huge) obsession with skittles. I eat them constantly. I’ve cut down to 2-3 bags a week. Sometimes 4. But only sometimes.
Secondly, both Capt’n Crunch AND Coco Puffs are soy free. This means that my mornings are saved by these wonderfully sugary concoctions of glory. They are highly processed and both contain Riboflavin. I have just found out that this particular vitamin is often made by fermenting petrochemicals in soybean oil. It is the by-product of this process that is used to make Riboflavin, also called B2. So while the cereals are soy free the riboflavin might not be and may or may not affect me. The bad thing? There is no way of finding out which plants that make B2 use soybean oil and which ones don’t let alone figuring out which companies use which plant. The good thing? Riboflavin is usually in cereals and breads in miniscule amounts. It’s possible that even if the kind I eat was processed through soy that the amount is so small I don’t have a sensitivity to it.
My favorite breakfast though is Fage (pronounced Fah-yae) yogurts with Stacy’s cinnamon sugar pita chips. Fage has a wonderful assortment of flavors and my current favorite is the Blueberry Acai berry one. It goes really really well with Stacy’s pita chips. Those pita chips are the shit and handle a sweet craving. They’re only mildly processed and they are soy free. There’s lots of flavors but I happen to like those cinnamon ones best.
For a quick dinner get a tube of morning breakfast sausage in the sage flavor (be sure to check labels.. Jimmy Dean rarely uses soybean protein isolate but recipes for sausage can change by region). I use about a quarter of a tube. Get a can of Amy’s veggie lentil soup, a box of instant mash potatoes, some butter and some parmesan cheese. What you have my friends, is amazing.
Pan-fry your sausage while you have your soup warming up in a little pot. Put a tablespoon of butter in the bowl you will be using along with about a half cup (more of less depending on how thick you want it to be) of instant mash potatoes. Grate your parmesan (about a quarter cup) and put that in the bowl too. Put, your now bubbling, soup (about half the can) in the bowl with the cheese, butter and potatoes and stir. The soup will thicken up and the butter will melt. Put in the sausage and what’s left is a veggie, sausage, cheesy, mashed potato bowl of awesomeness. It might actually change your life.
Over all I’m finding my way around the kitchen quite nicely. There are land mines though… any dressing (just about) that comes in a plastic container is usually made with soybean oil. If I ever want to eat mayonnaise again I will have to make it myself. Breads must be bought from the baker section of nice grocery stores (walmart doesn’t cary any soy free bread except for the occasion sour dough) and tortillas are nearly impossible to find soy free. Other than that though life is settling down into a nice pace of soy free eating. What’s next on the list for my blog you ask? The best place to buy excellent snacks. Stay tuned!
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