Reflections of an Allergy-Mama After a Trip to Sprouts in an Apocalypse: It’s Not What You Think
Reflections of an Allergy-Mama After a Trip to Sprouts in an Apocalypse: It’s Not What You Think What is it about Sprouts that makes me want to cry? Most of you know my Sprouts horror story if you’ve followed me for a while. Ten years ago, right after Moses was diagnosed with more things he was allergic to than not, I checked an allergy cookbook out of the library, held my chin high and headed to Sprouts for alternative flours and substitutes. As I stood in the gluten free aisle, reading labels, I burst into angry tears when I realized that I had to put back an entire cart of alternative flours because all of them had a “may contain nuts” warning in the tiny print. I’m pretty sure I left with some chicken and potatoes. It was one of the lowest points in this journey. We’ve come a long way. Since the confirmed arrival of a new, mutated virus in the U.S., I have watched the news, read my news feed and shook my head at the selfishness that it has revealed-on both ends of the sp...