[Yaelle]

The other day Wegman's, a high end grocery store, tricked me. They put finely ground bread crumbs in their vinegar and their oil. OH MY WORD. My son interrogated the lady at the deli counter to find that out and had her whimpering and crying and confessing that management made her do it. YOU CAN'T GET GLUTEN FREE distilled vinegar at Wegman's deli counter. They take a perfectly useful and safe product and poison it.

Isn't it just SICKENING??

My extreme sensitivity is to MSG. I have gone so completely off of it that I now am sensitive to the tiniest bit, so I can eat pretty much no processed foods. It's healthier, anyway. But the things the manufacturers do to get MSG into a product is as shocking as that deli counter.

The reason people "looove" the taste of the supermarket roasted chickens is because they inject the raw birds with "water" with MSG in it, and there is some loophole that they do not have to mention the MSG. Since MSG is an addicting taste, people want more and buy more. And wonder why their chicken doesn't taste as "good."

[Personally, I can make my chicken taste better than that salty, MSG flavored, store bought piece o' junk. Just get a free-range, organic whole chicken, stuff it with cut up lemons or onions or herbs or a combo, rub it down with salt and pepper -- I add tumeric for health and taste, but you needn't -- and roast it in a roasting pan (the one you use for your turkey) 20 minutes for each pound of bird. The first half of the cooking, make sure breast is DOWN. Flip the chicken half way through. You WILL thank me, as it's delicious and REAL.]

[hoosiermama]

Was reacting to hamburger at certain restaurants...Found out that the federal government allows a certain percentage of filler to be added and still call it 100% beef. Called Washington DC. where eventually talked to the head of the Ag department dealing with meat. (F & D do not control meats)

To make a long story short, explained to her the problem, how it had made my life miserable and asked if I (or my family after my death)had to sue to get the Ag department in line with Food and Drug. You'll notice all meat is now labeled....Except restaurants of course that you must ask for their listings.

[metmom]

Home cooking is the way to go, but hasn’t helped me any. I haven’t had prepared foods in years.

[Ditter]

In this late stage of my life with allergies, flavor enhancers are my biggest problem. That includes MSG, all the autolized and hydrolyzed protein and worst of all disodium insonate and disodium guynalate. They have also made a flavor enhancer made from corn (maltodextrin)and it gives me a double whammy.