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I work at a vegan juice and food place and I have been very careful to check all the ingredients of all our food so that I know what I can and cannot have. I'm on day 6 of my Whole30, and at work today, after checking the ingredients twice, I ate a very small sample of our granola made of seeds and dried apple and beets only to immediately check the ingredients again and all of a sudden see that there was vanilla extract in it. Eek! I had checked twice but I honestly just missed it. It was only a small sample, and my intentions and actions were correct in checking, but I just made a silly mistake. Do I start over, or just say whoops and move on, making sure to triple check ingredients lists more carefully in the future? I am very committed to doing this program correctly, but also I don't want to have to extend my program. I'm running a half-marathon about 11 days after the program ends, and I worry that if I extend my program by 6 days then I'll be in the reintroduction period for the run and my body might be feeling kind of funny. That being said, I don't particularly want to extend the program another 11 days to finish after the race. My boyfriend is doing the program with me and he's having a hard time and doesn't want to extend with me (I wouldn't ask him to do that), so he'd be off reintroducing food while I'd still be in the thick of the program. Should I extend/restart, or no?

So I have a question... I read that vanilla extract is non compliant because of its alcohol content. But Kombucha contains alcohol, right? From the fermentations process? So why is Kombucha compliant but vanilla extract is not? Just curious!

I've been pounding this stuff because I find it helps hugely with my detox headaches! But then I saw somewhere about vanilla extract being a no-no. Crap! Surely no alcohol survives the drying and tea-making process? Help me out, peeps. I'm only on Day 3 but nevertheless, would be pretty bummed to re-start! Here's the listed ingredients: Red Tea (Rooibos) Natural Flavour Vanilla Extract

Can I use vanilla extract in a recipe?

Hi all! Before you create a new can I have, take a peek at this list we've compiled of the most common "Can I Have" questions! http://whole30.com/2013/06/the-official-can-i-have-guide-to-the-whole30/

Hi! I'm on Day 8 of 30. I made the berries with coconut whipped cream from Well Fed, and only after devouring about 2 servings did I realize... vanilla extract has alcohol in it! Does this mean I need to reset my Whole 30 clock back to day 0 and start tomorrow? Thanks for your help!

Apologies if this has already been answered, but I didn't see it. (I looked.) Can we have vanilla beans to flavor things? Is it considered a legume? Also, I think that vanilla extract is out because of the alcohol but I have seen conflicting info b/c some of the recipes on here have vanilla extract in them.