Why start ANOTHER Blog?

I was thinking to myself as a filled out the "create a blog" form on the blogger website: "With all the blogs out there why make another one? Seriously your grammar skills stink, you couldn't find your way through the alphabet without spell check what are you thinking Candice?" Honestly the only thing I was thinking is that there are NO good resources to help the everyday person (like me) find Monosodium Glutamate free foods, food businesses, and restaurants. I have found a few region specific posts on blogs, forums, and a handfull of stale or defunct blogs. I want current general USA info along with the region specific stuff. (Did I mention not to expect excellent grammar skills out of this blog?) I live in the middle of the American heartland, Indiana to be more specific somewhere between a corn field and a bean field. I have bigger cities within driving distance that I frequent often. We travel a great deal picking up and dropping off my step-kids (which you will see me refer to as My Kids since I really feel they are more than just “step”).

Why MSG free for Candice? Well I have a mild form of Rheumatoid Arthritis caused by having a severe bout with the Epistine Bar virus in college. It changed me in more ways that I realized over the last 14 years including the swelling of my joints. I noticed recently how much more inflammation and pain I have when I eat anything with MSG. So naturally I started using myself as a human guinea pig and went days making sure I didn’t have any MSG then eating out or eating foods that I know had added MSG. The results were so profound I started becoming MSG Nazi and purged my pantry of all food with specific added MSG. I am quite aware that some food additives or natural foods have MSG in them but right now I am concentrating on just products that included MSG specifically added to the foods. Those make me feel the worst and give me the harshest reactions.

So I continue my course of research of stale blogs, menus and ingredient lists to make my world a better place for my body and my joints. I hope you get some relief out also from my research from either similar joint pain or from the headaches that plague so many MGS sensitive persons.