Having found out exactly what makes me sick in my early twenties I started the quest to seek interesting food I could eat at home - and by interesting I mean not: plain chicken and chips, fish fingers and chips, steak and chips and also spog (my childhood name for Heinz spaghetti).
Yes my childhood foods were simple - oddly enough that somehow made it harder for me to eat round friends houses. I guess looking back it wasn't a case of "shove it in the oven and leave to cook" as so many processed foods have onion in them - but I am grateful to those friends mums who managed to give me something that I could eat - and also my mum who fed me before I went round to other people's houses when they didn't.
Over the years I have found various sauces that I've loved to cook with - only to be scuppered by the "New and improved recipe" label on the jar!
For me this is the company saying - "we want to make bigger profit margins and therefore need to remove some of the more tasty, expensive ingredients and then bulk it out with something....why not onion - everybody loves onion"
- Well NO, I DON'T!
So below is a picture of the currently onion free sauces I use regularly in my meals:
(it should be noted that there is garlic in some of these and leek in the Knorr stock pot - these haven't given me the usual onion reaction so I am able to tolerate them - but you might not be able to)
Happy cooking
MEX