What’s In The Things We Eat/Use?

I’m on my second week of prep prior to beginning my journey with Disulfiram. No coffee, no tea other than the raw herbs I steep and boil, no vinegar or alcohol in anything.

I turned in my prescription the other day. The pharmacy techs are always so nice and cheerful, well, most of them are. That day was no different. They chit chatted away as I picked up a previously ordered scripts and when I handed them the new one for Disulfiram the tech that took it, after a long pause of studying it, stared at me with a face of disbelief. It was as if she thought she had finally put all the pieces together. She thinks I’m an alcoholic. My kids and husband think I should have explained myself, however, the pharmacy does not need to know why. My daughter said that she thinks the tech was finally able to understand why I’m always happy. hahahaha. Nice!

As I roamed the isles looking for a toothpaste, I was astounded to find that many have alcohol in them. I looked through all of the non-fluoridated natural toothpastes and could only find one that did not. The day prior to that, I was putting plain spices from the spice cupboard on my salad with some olive oil and I pulled one out that was for veggies. It was a veggie blend. I almost just shook it on without looking and then I decided to just look at the ingredients, only to find vinegar. Yes! They had dehydrated the spices and they vinegar on them. When shopping at Costco, we looked at a salsa and again vinegar. I am used to reading labels so this is not hard, and I know what likely will have vinegar, it’s the little things that I didn’t expect it to be in that has me even more cautious.

Last night we went out and I ordered water. Since I don’t usually drink soda, but I cannot drink coffee, alcohol or tea, I thought I’d try a Sprecher soda, in a bottle. A bottle won’t have the HFCS in it and I know they make it with local raw honey. Thank goodness I haven’t started the DSF yet. Believe it or not it had two extracts in it. Yucca and Vanilla. Well extracts have alcohol carriers. I would be sick if I had already started it, since I didn’t realize it until after I drank some of it. This makes me even more cautious that I need to be sure I am prepared to go out to eat. Taking even more caution with what ingredients are being used.

Today I am prepping to head to Chicago this weekend to meet up with some friends and for a meeting. I will provide pictures of what I took with me to make sure I was being safe with my meal choices.