Re: Fast Food French Fries

[Guest guest]

Bill,

Hang in there!! I had to laugh because I've said this a hundred million

times (it seems) in the last year, too. FWIW, we just don't do any fast

food fries anymore. Sucks, but the chance of an infringement was just too

great. Besides, I have a hard enough time at home keeping him out of stuff

(at least lately) :0) Hang in there over there in Alabama.

Elsie (in Texas)

Fast Food French Fries

> I am really beginning to hate this diet!

>

> Bill

> Father to , 4 yo ASD

> Toney, Alabama

[Guest guest]

I could relate to you saying that you are beginning to hate this diet. ME

too! My husband keeps saying...let's take her off it. But I'm afraid to.

So I keep going with it and complaining to him, LOL! We're only 9 weeks

into it, but the past week or so I've begun to hate it too. Keep going..you

are helping your son. H

> I really am beginning to hate this diet!

[Guest guest]

Another possibility for fast food ff is Chick Fil A. They fry their

nuggets in a different type of oil altogether than the ff, so they

are *always* in different vats (ff are in vegetable oil and

nuggets/strips/chicken sandwiches are fried in peanut oil). My son

has these with no problems. He gets so excited that he can play in

the play place and have a nice order of fries (they're good too!).

Usually, we bring him a hot dog or something like that for the " main

course " .

-a mom to Alec 7 (nt) and Billy 4 yo w/autism

> Hi Listers,

>

> I really am beginning to hate this diet! While I was at work I

read a

> message from someone who warned about possible mixing for the

frying vat oil

> thereby causing cross contamination. That brought on a

revelation. Back in

> the 70's when I was just a wee lad I worked a Mc's for about

3 years.

> I was a closer and one of my jobs was cleaning the vats at night.

We used a

> big bucket with a pump in it to clean and filter the oil. I would

put the

> pump together using clean filter paper and drain the vats into it

and pump

> the oil back into the vat. Now when I worked there we only fried 3

things

> in regular vats (not counting chicken which was a completely

different

> beast), we fried french fries, apple pies and fish. Each was fried

in it's

> own vat so there was no cross contamination there. However, if the

apple

> pie or fish vat was cleaned before the fry vat then there would be

a little

> bit of oil left in the bottom of the bucket that would contaminate

the fry

> oil.

>

> Now when I worked there we were trained to clean the vats in the

order of

> fries, apple then fish. However I can't sit here and say that I

never got

> them out of order, especially when I was first starting.

>

> Also, we used to use a white powder in the bottom of the pump

bucket. The

> powder went on top of the filter paper to help " polish " the oil. It

> basically filtered out some of the particles that the filter paper

would

> miss. Now I'm sure that powder was completely harmless under normal

> circumstances. However, who knows if it was gluten free and I'll

bet you

> would have a very hard time finding out.

>

> I can't speak for other fast food restaurants nor can I say how

Mc's

> cleans the vats now. But they ARE cleaned and the potential for

> contamination is there.

>

> When we started the diet we switched from BK FF to Mc's

because

> Mc's told use that their fries were gluten free and were

cooked in

> there own vats. It never occurred to me about the possible

contamination

> problem that could occur during the cleaning process. Mc's

FF are the

> only fast food we eat anymore. Without them we will not be able to

be away

> from home during meal time!

>

> I am really beginning to hate this diet!

>

> Bill

> Father to , 4 yo ASD

> Toney, Alabama

[Guest guest]

Bill, if you are looking for " no-brainers " -- a quick dinner without

effort -- there are several Amy's frozen dinners that are GFCF (don't

know about any soy or corn issues). You just plop them in the

microwave. You can choose from the Shepherd's Pie, Tamale Pie, Asian

Noodle Stir Fry (rice noodles), Thai Stir Fry, and Black Bean

Enchiladas dinner. It's nice to have a " no-effort " dinner on-hand if

you just don't feel like cooking. Hope this helped a little.

-a mom to Alec 7 (nt) and Billy 4 yo w/autism

> Hi Listers,

>

> I really am beginning to hate this diet! While I was at work I

read a

> message from someone who warned about possible mixing for the

frying vat oil

> thereby causing cross contamination. That brought on a

revelation. Back in

> the 70's when I was just a wee lad I worked a Mc's for about

3 years.

> I was a closer and one of my jobs was cleaning the vats at night.

We used a

> big bucket with a pump in it to clean and filter the oil. I would

put the

> pump together using clean filter paper and drain the vats into it

and pump

> the oil back into the vat. Now when I worked there we only fried 3

things

> in regular vats (not counting chicken which was a completely

different

> beast), we fried french fries, apple pies and fish. Each was fried

in it's

> own vat so there was no cross contamination there. However, if the

apple

> pie or fish vat was cleaned before the fry vat then there would be

a little

> bit of oil left in the bottom of the bucket that would contaminate

the fry

> oil.

>

> Now when I worked there we were trained to clean the vats in the

order of

> fries, apple then fish. However I can't sit here and say that I

never got

> them out of order, especially when I was first starting.

>

> Also, we used to use a white powder in the bottom of the pump

bucket. The

> powder went on top of the filter paper to help " polish " the oil. It

> basically filtered out some of the particles that the filter paper

would

> miss. Now I'm sure that powder was completely harmless under normal

> circumstances. However, who knows if it was gluten free and I'll

bet you

> would have a very hard time finding out.

>

> I can't speak for other fast food restaurants nor can I say how

Mc's

> cleans the vats now. But they ARE cleaned and the potential for

> contamination is there.

>

> When we started the diet we switched from BK FF to Mc's

because

> Mc's told use that their fries were gluten free and were

cooked in

> there own vats. It never occurred to me about the possible

contamination

> problem that could occur during the cleaning process. Mc's

FF are the

> only fast food we eat anymore. Without them we will not be able to

be away

> from home during meal time!

>

> I am really beginning to hate this diet!

>

> Bill

> Father to , 4 yo ASD

> Toney, Alabama