Julie Bove > wrote:

: "W. Baker" > wrote in message
: >
: > It is hard for people to keep track of all your allergies and food
: > dislikes and if not allergic to eggs many may not bother with the
: > ingredients on the egg substitutes, as they are called. In addition, many
: > who have issues with eggs have issues with only the yolks or the whites.
: > I remember this being an issue with some kids when my kids were young.

: I don't expect anyone to keep track of my allergies. But why would anyone
: think Egg Beaters are an egg substitute? They're not! They're eggs! And I
: don't know about people who have issues with yolks only. However her reply
: was to my not putting eggs in the stuffed shells. No mention of yolks or
: whites. So why would she think I could use something with part of the egg?
: Ah, but like countless others she had no clue that Egg Beaters were eggs.
: No telling what all those people thought they were made of.

: I read every label on every food. I always have. Only now it is necessary
: to me to read and re-read and look for "may contain" or "made on shared
: equipment with". That is something a person without allergies wouldn't need
: to do.
: >
: > Many folks, if they have no issues with certain kinds of food see no need
: > to read ingredient lists. Often nutritional information is what concerns
: > then if hey are not bothered by allergies. I only check for certain
: > ingredients if I am having someone over who is sensetive to some
: > ingredient like nuts or gluten, etc. Otherwise they are of no concern to
: > me so why squint at print almost iillegible to me with my macular
: > degeneration just to see if they do or don't have something I don't care
: > about. I may check for kosher issues, but not for stuff others might be
: > allergic to, unless they are my house guest.

: As I said... I have always read ingredients. There are certain things we
: simply don't eat. Like HFCS, TVP or trans-fats. I personally think it's a
: horrid thing that people just blindly eat things without questioning what is
: in them.

Eggbeaters are advertised and listed in recipes as egg substitutes,
geherally for poeple watching either calories of chloesterol so they thing
of them not a glorified egg whites, but as egg substitutes to use in place
of those fatty whole eggs for recipes or breakfast. As to the other items
you mention, some poeple carea aboat them and others do not unless there
is great publicity about themlike mayor Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York
City, who make a big fuss about these things and tried to get peopoe aware
about them, just as he stopped so much smoking in the city over the past
10 years. What is TVP? Is that the stuff you use in place of meat if you
are vegetarian? why is that a problem if soy is not something one
particularly has issues with? i know you do, as you do with so very many
things.

Wendy