Not dishing up pizza
My mom sometimes will run errands at Jewel; it's where she buys our garbage stickers. While there, she'll pick up food, including Gino's East deep dish pizzas. I don't know if they're always on sale, but these are the only pizzas she'll buy, either the stuffed spinach or the plain cheese.
Here's the thing: I can no longer tolerate that much cheese in a pizza. This isn't entirely new information; I had learned a few years back that if I didn't take a Lactaid when I ate such a pizza, I'd feel like I had the flu. Unpleasant. But a Lactaid made the difference. However, even taking a Lactaid didn't help earlier this year, so that several times after eating the pizza, I felt crappy. It probably doesn't help that the Lactaid was expired and I have since bought more.
I broke this news to mom today. Once again, she'd gone to Jewel for garbage stickers; once again, she came home with a spinach Gino's East pizza. I hadn't noticed it in the freezer but she brought it up at dinner tonight, oh, tomorrow we can have the spinach pizza! I had to go, I probably won't eat any of it. That's when dad chimed in that he, too, had issues in eating it. Now, dad has not been diagnosed as being lactose intolerant (then again, neither have I), but I'll be honest, it's been well established to me that he has some dairy issues he's simply ignored over the years. But he admitted that he's noticed lately some issues if he eats a lot of cheese. Okay, phew, maybe now mom will stop buying these pizzas. I mean, I'd be okay if we just plain stopped eating pizza altogether in some ways. For a while, we did; it's just such an easy meal to pop in the oven. I mean, mom can do it. Mom can pop anything in the oven. And I see where she's coming from, because if dad buys pizza, it's all meaty, and mom would prefer to not eat all that meat. Any healthy pizzas she buys, dad doesn't like. Again, perhaps it's time to stop eating pizza altogether. We just spent six weeks not eating it and lived to tell the tale.
By the way, speaking of cheese, I did have some yesterday. Mom had bought a vegetable lasagna and that was last night's dinner. I ate it with two of the expired Lactaids and I *think* it was okay, though tonight I feel a little weird, hmm.
Here's the thing: I can no longer tolerate that much cheese in a pizza. This isn't entirely new information; I had learned a few years back that if I didn't take a Lactaid when I ate such a pizza, I'd feel like I had the flu. Unpleasant. But a Lactaid made the difference. However, even taking a Lactaid didn't help earlier this year, so that several times after eating the pizza, I felt crappy. It probably doesn't help that the Lactaid was expired and I have since bought more.
I broke this news to mom today. Once again, she'd gone to Jewel for garbage stickers; once again, she came home with a spinach Gino's East pizza. I hadn't noticed it in the freezer but she brought it up at dinner tonight, oh, tomorrow we can have the spinach pizza! I had to go, I probably won't eat any of it. That's when dad chimed in that he, too, had issues in eating it. Now, dad has not been diagnosed as being lactose intolerant (then again, neither have I), but I'll be honest, it's been well established to me that he has some dairy issues he's simply ignored over the years. But he admitted that he's noticed lately some issues if he eats a lot of cheese. Okay, phew, maybe now mom will stop buying these pizzas. I mean, I'd be okay if we just plain stopped eating pizza altogether in some ways. For a while, we did; it's just such an easy meal to pop in the oven. I mean, mom can do it. Mom can pop anything in the oven. And I see where she's coming from, because if dad buys pizza, it's all meaty, and mom would prefer to not eat all that meat. Any healthy pizzas she buys, dad doesn't like. Again, perhaps it's time to stop eating pizza altogether. We just spent six weeks not eating it and lived to tell the tale.
By the way, speaking of cheese, I did have some yesterday. Mom had bought a vegetable lasagna and that was last night's dinner. I ate it with two of the expired Lactaids and I *think* it was okay, though tonight I feel a little weird, hmm.