Weird topic right? I wasn’t able to chew gum for over a year! Poor poor me, Big deal, I know. What's the problem, you could give up gum easily. But hear me out, when you have to give up everything you’ve ever known in an instant, something so simple as chewing a piece of gum becomes everything. It's funny to say this but I missed the mental trick that gum was providing me during those starving days of being too scared to eat. Chewing gum gave me that feeling of eating so it was something I leaned on and then poof I couldn’t have it anymore.
I kept getting ‘sick’ when chewing gum and then low and behold I discovered there was soy in just about all of the gum out there! Weird, Weird, Weird right!? Lordy, it's EVERYWHERE!! In a previous post about the “Hidden Soy”, I stated how it was in gum and other things that we wouldn’t even think of. Why is it there, what is the purpose? I am still unsure, and truthfully, I don’t have the energy to understand why, but it is there. I went an entire year without chewing gum, it was tough at first but then I got used to it.
I eventually discovered Altoids were soy-free and those became my partner.
One day, Ryan and I had a little date morning up to a local shop that carries local farm produce, meat, etc, and mostly organic items. While there I saw a stand with gum, I started reading the ingredients and scanning the barcode with my Shopwell app. After several minutes I finally discovered PUR Gum was a soy-free gum. Even better, it is Gluten-free, Vegan, nut/peanut-free, and NON-GMO! Woop Woop!! I bought a pack that day but didn’t try it right away because I was scared. I didn’t want to ruin the day with any kind of upset stomach. So, it sat on the counter for a couple of weeks haha. Finally, one day I decided to pop a piece in my mouth, and, man oh man, did I miss chewing gum! It was comparable to giving a child gum for the first time, I felt THAT cool!!
