dairy free observation

papagena

It always astounds me the number of people who hear that I'm dairy free and wonder if I can have eggs.  Despite the grocery store's classification, eggs are not dairy. 

Lotte134

Ha!  But better safe than sorry, I guess? 

MeggyJ

I have people ask me the same thing!

InfamousQBert

so, i'm reading a pregnancy book right now and it has a protein counter in the back and i was just wondering about that. how did they get lumped in with dairy? you'd think, in a nutrition guide of all places, they'd be in with the meat & other animal products? bizarre.

Alirebco

and they come from different animals...

papagena

InfamousQBert:

so, i'm reading a pregnancy book right now and it has a protein counter in the back and i was just wondering about that. how did they get lumped in with dairy? you'd think, in a nutrition guide of all places, they'd be in with the meat & other animal products? bizarre.

I'm shocked they get lumped in with dairy on a nutrition guide!  Huh.  I get it at the grocery - they're both stored the same way, so they're part of the same department, but anything other than that is beyond me. 

englishviola

I probably missed something but why again are you off dairy?  I know several nursing moms who cut it out and DS has a dairy sensitivity.

daenikoffre

Ahh... yes. This is sad.. and weird. 

A little boy at the preschool was lactose intolerant and his parents were LIVID when they found out we were giving him eggs at breakfast. They said, "Didn't we tell you guys no dairy?!"

 Oy vey...... 

papagena

englishviola:

I probably missed something but why again are you off dairy?  I know several nursing moms who cut it out and DS has a dairy sensitivity.

Yeah - #2 was having some painful gas and some skin issues & congestion that pedi & chiro both said might be dairy related, so we (what am I saying 'we'  - I ) cut out dairy and things have been better, so, here I am, constantly asking dairy free questions!