Foods to avoid

JB C · Oct 8

Cake icing is the big one. Cupcakes, Birthday Cakes often have vanilla extract and that vanilla extract contains 35% alcohol/70 proof Bourbon if the cupcake/birthday cake is make will real vanilla extract from Bourbon and this is often the case. 2 parts to it. First, the extract is cooked off from the portion of the cake that is baked. But, vanilla extract is also regularly used in the icing and this is not cooked off. You are ingesting pure 35% alcohol. Eat 2 cupcakes the night before or a giant piece of birthday cake with great icing and test the next morning (within 12 hours) and you are taking a risk. This is the one that comes up more often than mouthwashes, alcohol hand sanitizer, etc.

Smit5292, BSN · Oct 8

Universe93B, thank you so much for the info!! It definitely helped my anxiety about what I can & can't eat 😊

PassportCruiser · Oct 10

Thanks for this thread. I used to be so paranoid about this and never even ate out! Then I decided I can't live like this for 5 years.

I started to eat out, go to parties and eat food there, make my fruit smoothies and even have ate Italian food cooked with white wine and other things. I get like 4 urine ETGs a month, maybe even more, my state is the worst. Nothing has happened. I also switched to alcohol mouthwash, I'm done with that weak mouthwash, gotta kill all the germs!

Smit5292, BSN · Oct 10

PassportCruiser thank you so much for your input!! I really appreciate it!! Yes!! Kill those germs!! 💯

MojoNurse · Oct 11

Glad I found this thread this morning. I'm waiting on a test to come back and concerned it might show ETG r/t some new bread I've been eating which lists 2 types of fermented flour as ingredients. I know something's up with this test because it's taking too long and my CM told me it's a "work in progress with no ETA". I've even done a test since that one and already have those negative results. So, I've been wracking my brain what it might be and then remembered my new bread and checked the label. I'm paranoid because I tested positive for codeine during my reinstatement r/t poppy seeds and had to restart the process. Luckily, I was only 4 months in and didn't lose much time. Uggghhhhhh!!! Hurry up Affinity!!!

Healer555 · Oct 11

MojoNurse said:

Glad I found this thread this morning. I'm waiting on a test to come back and concerned it might show ETG r/t some new bread I've been eating which lists 2 types of fermented flour as ingredients. I know something's up with this test because it's taking too long and my CM told me it's a "work in progress with no ETA". I've even done a test since that one and already have those negative results. So, I've been wracking my brain what it might be and then remembered my new bread and checked the label. I'm paranoid because I tested positive for codeine during my reinstatement r/t poppy seeds and had to restart the process. Luckily, I was only 4 months in and didn't lose much time. Uggghhhhhh! Hurry up Affinity!

This is why I'm so paranoid about food. I am starving LOL. I'm counting the days until I can have good food

Purplenurse123 · Oct 22

I was also told by my program that "no one has ever failed the urine tests because of food.” Now... that's obviously open to some interpretation, but I have made zero changes to what I eat (just to what I drink 😉) and it's never been a problem. I also have the ETG test strips and I've never had a questionable read.

@Healer555, I think your question of why someone would lie on an anonymous site is proof that you don't have an SUD (LOL); they lie bc it's simply a part of SUD for many people. They can be heavily in denial, to the point that they are continuing their lies even when it truly does not matter. These programs (and all programs that work with people with SUD) expect these lies. So a lot of the "you'd never believe it but it actually happened to me!” stories that you read about... are in fact not believable 🙂 Now that obviously doesn't have to change how anyone decides what to eat! Just might give you a small bit of peace of mind.

Nursrcy00901 · Oct 22

Purplenurse123 said:

I was also told by my program that "no one has ever failed the urine tests because of food.” Now... that's obviously open to some interpretation, but I have made zero changes to what I eat (just to what I drink 😉) and it's never been a problem. I also have the ETG test strips and I've never had a questionable read.

@Healer555, I think your question of why someone would lie on an anonymous site is proof that you don't have an SUD (LOL); they lie bc it's simply a part of SUD for many people. They can be heavily in denial, to the point that they are continuing their lies even when it truly does not matter. These programs (and all programs that work with people with SUD) expect these lies. So a lot of the "you'd never believe it but it actually happened to me!” stories that you read about... are in fact not believable 🙂 Now that obviously doesn't have to change how anyone decides what to eat! Just might give you a small bit of peace of mind.

I agree with the denial. When I was first caught I was pissed because I wasn't that far into addiction. Used 1 time every 1-2 weeks to be able to sleep because of traumas I was trying to get over. It took me a few weeks to realize it was a SUD problem, even if it was only 3 times before I was caught.