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Hey Linda, Jacli here - late as usual :)
Actually I have the mumps!!!!! So this time I have a great
excuse.
Anyway I wanted to send my little Here Here to your well
articulated
thoughts on the presence of peanuts. Although I don't have
a problem
with peanuts I do empathize with folks who do. Fortunately
for me
since I started using Herbalife 3 years ago I have
completely gotten over
my citrus allergies and environmental allergies, thrown out
my pills and stopped
getting my 2 shots in each arm 2 times a week. BUT. I
still have allergy to milk
and butter. Now that's allergy not lactose intolerance.
Just the smell of butter
is enough to make me start hurling uncontrollably. Think
there is a lot of peanut
butter out there? Try looking for butter on the label next
time you go shopping.
You'll be surprised. It's like air in America: it's
everyWhere. Fortunately they do list dairy
butter. Usually.

But I had an experience two years ago that really brought
it home for me: I bought a
package of flavored Quaker rice cakes. Turns out they had
dairy butter and butter oil
in them but rather than list it they just put "natural
flavors". Incidentally these were supposed
to be banana cakes and banana was NOT one of the natural
flavors. Anyway I bought em, ate 1/2 of
one and began "the hurl" and it took a process of
elimination to figure out what had happened.
And more than a couple of phone calls. And a trip to the
emergency room. In the end Quaker
promised to include the information on the labels and last
year they followed through. But it has
made me a touch more cautious that's for sure (or as hubby
dearest puts it: even more paranoid).

The point is that every single one of us deserves to know
EXACTLY what is in the food that we
are spending our hard earned money on. Even if its just
peanuts :)

Take care and talk to you soon, Jacli

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On 11/18/2001 at 6:39 AM [email protected]
wrote:

>As to moving where there aren't peanuts, well that leaves
nowhere on earth.
>Peanuts are a legume and they grow like a weed in almost
any climate. They
>have been exported to all countries and now play a part in
the cooking of
>almost every ethnic group. And, as you can see from the
very short list
>above, one simply can't escape the presence of the lowly
peanut.
>
>Lynda