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What can I eat?

Now that you have been diagnosed, you may feel overwhelmed with
food choices. What can you eat? What can't you eat? How do you know
if it will make you sick? How do you know that you can even enjoy it without
having the anxiety that goes with it? Here is a general "get started" list of
foods. Eventually, you will build off of this list (it may not seem like it today).

But it's a list that can get you started so you know what to purchase and what to avoid. As always, we are not physicians. We are just an Alpha Gal Family trying to help other AG families. Always read your own labels, do your own research, and check with your physician/allergist if you have any questions.

VEGETABLES

  • Canned vegetables, plain, read labels for those in broth or with seasoning

  • Fresh vegetables in the grocery store

  • Fresh vegetables from a local farm stand

  • Frozen vegetables, plain, no butter or cheese sauce

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FRUIT

  • Canned fruit without processed sugar (e.g., unsweetened applesauce)

  • Fresh fruit in the grocery store

  • Fresh fruit from a local farm stand

  • Frozen fruit that is not in syrup with sugar

Ok, so why can't I have sugar? Sugar is a plant, isn't it? Yes, it is. However, some manufacturers process sugar over bone char. Bone char is the carbonated bones of animals and filtering sugar through this charred carbon ensures that it remains white and not clumpy. ​Click here for more information on bone char and sugar processing from Food Republic.

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BREAD

  • Any vegan bread (read the label)

  • Angelic Bakehouse Brand

  • Brownberry Brand (read the label)

  • Dave's Killer Bread

  • Ezekiel 4:9 bread (usually in the frozen section)

  • Nature's Own Life Keto Soft White

  • Pillsbury Crescent Rolls ORIGINAL (red stripe on top)

  • Rudi's brand (read the label)

  • Sara Lee ORIGINAL Artesano Baking Bread​

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CHEESE

  • BabyBel Plant-Based Vegan Snack Alternative (these are addicting)

  • Daiya brand plant-based cheese

  • Follow Your Heart brand plant-based cheese

  • Kite Hill brand plant-based cheese

  • Philadelphia plant-based cream cheeses

  • Simple Truth plant-based cheese

  • Violife brand plant-based cheese

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YOGURT

  • 365 Brand dairy-free almond milk yogurt

  • Forager cashewmilk yogurt products

  • Kite Hill Greek style plant-based yogurt

  • Nancy's oat-milk probiotic yogurt

  • Oui coconut-based dairy alterative yogurt (teal blue labels)

  • Siggi's plant-based yogurt blend - READ LABELS because their packaging between dairy-based products and vegan coconut milk products is very similar.

  • Silk dairy-free yogurt (read labels as some have cane sugar and you may be sensitive to cane sugar)

  • So Delicious certified vegan coconut milk yogurt (raspberry, peach, strawberry banana, strawberry, vanilla, and unsweetened vanilla)

  • Trader Joe's creamy almond non-dairy yogurt alternative

Click here for additional information about available vegan yogurt options

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MILK, CREAM, AND COFFEE CREAMER (some plant-based milks have carrageenan, which can trigger the Alpha Gal allergy - read your labels before purchase)

The major derivatives for plant-based milks are almond, cashew, coconut, oat, and soy.

  • Almond Breeze unsweetened original almond milk

  • Califia Farms extra creamy oat milk (**be aware that some Califia brands have carrageenan - read your labels)

  • Califia Farms Barista blend extra creamy oat milk

  • Califia Farms almond milk

  • Califia Farms pumpkin spice oat Barista blend creamer

  • Chobani original oat milk

  • Edensoy soy milk

  • Nutpods almond and coconut creamer

  • Nutpods original unsweetened almond and coconut creamer

  • Oatly original oat milk

  • Planet Oat original oat milk

  • Ripple dairy-free half and half

  • Silk almond milk

  • Silk coconut milk

  • Silk dark chocolate almond milk

  • Silk NextMilk oat milk and coconut milk blend (whole fat)

  • Silk NextMilk oat milk and coconut milk blend (2%)

  • Silk original oat milk

  • Silk maple brown sugar flavored oat creamer (has cane sugar)

  • Silk unsweetened almond and coconut milk blend

  • Simple Truth oat milk

  • Simple Truth almond milk

  • Simple Truth organic coconut milk

  • Simple Truth unsweetened vanilla almond milk

  • Simple Truth unsweetened coconut milk

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CEREALS AND BREAKFAST BARS

  • Catalina Crunch - Cinnamon Toast

  • Organic Supercereal

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