Guess I won't be having cheddar cheese mashed potatoes tonight

don't know that i'd wanna put that on my lawn -

Gotta love that that good old Silicone and Titanium dioxide...

Yummy stuff...

Good lord.

The titanium dioxide being the additive to prevent bacterial growth and used for shelf life... Gotta wonder what it does to us when it;s in our system. Major gut bacteria changer I would think. It's showing up a lot these days in ingredients.

Boil peeled potatoes
melt cheese with some butter or oil
mash and add salt and pepper.

tastes better and probably easier to make.

At least it has REDUCED LACTOSE Whey Canola Oil! (Whatever that is).

The first ingredient is water and you can bet that is full of chlorine, fluoride, pesticides, and a whole other list of "ingredients".

ahh these must be boxed instant mashed potatoes!!

a few weeks ago, i went to the dollar store with my dad because that's where he does the bulk of his food shopping.

just let that sink in...

anyway, they mostly sell expired food and when he saw all these betty crocker mashed potato boxes for $.75 each, he bought like 10 of them. he lives off this stuff, but it's usually not so cheap. they only expired this past summer, but i'm positive he won't let any of them go to waste.

Yeah - I know far to many that do the bulk of their shopping at the dollar and surplus stores - and buy/eat it far after is expired.

Which brings up OM's question again - Why me, not them?..

This got me curious. Take Titanium Dioxide. Every single cellular level test I have read has shown it to be toxic and the smaller the particle the more toxic it is - again on a cellular level. Many other chemicals show this as well. BUT, almost all of these have animal tests showing little to no effect in the whole umm organism. So they let it pass into the food supply chain at certain max dosage levels assumed to be safe as the body can deal with them somehow.

So maybe the deal with the food chemicals/reactions we have etc is simply that perfectly normal healthy people can defend and dispose of these chemicals and live a (questionably) healthy life and we respond or they trigger things in "us" only. Not normal people. Hence the mystery.

So this says two things directly - a) Mucus barrier issue b) genetic issue. If you have both of these functioning perfectly you probably CAN survive eating this crap to an extent.

It would be interesting to see if they have ever tested the chemicals in animals with say DDS colitis and if/how much it aggravated the symptoms. So instead of testing on healthy people, test also on immune compromised and autoimmune type before ruling it fully safe or not safe.

PS - Keep us posted if your wife chows down on them... and how she is the next day... probably perfectly normal.

I can't do carageenan either! ;-)

I'd not even think to buy them. 

You'll have to inform your wife about the importance of reading labels....it is amazing what they can pack into "food" these days..lol.

q

Why is she buying foods like that?

I have learned that avoiding most if not all processed food is the best method in helping UC. If you cannot pronounce it, why eat it?

bananagirl, your dad and mine MUST be twins! gosh, he even tried to get away with buying dollar store stuff for the family. unfortunately.. (or fortunately in some way?) my mother passed away not having to eat that SH** and I well.. shop at a farmers market.

.. OH! And do not forget your "natural flavor" appearing on the ingredient list. Now THAT can be anything they want to deem natural and the FDA will let it slide.

Tordando - many prepared potato products contain sulphite preservatives which people can be sensitive to, could have been that making you ill?