Can we pick it out?

[Nessaldc]

I was wondering if we were allowed to eat things that had a non-compliant ingredient and just pick it out. Yesterday my mom made a chicken and potato mixture for tostadas. I almost just picked out the potatoes so I could eat the chicken with lettuce but decided not to. Tomorrow my mother in law is making pozole for a cousin who is visiting from Texas. I was wondering if I could just take out the hominy and eat the broth and chicken. Not looking for loop holes, just love chicken with broth, but I'm on day 16 so I don't need a reset lol I've stayed away from most of my wonderful Mexican meals so far. Just thought maybe this one could work somehow

[GoJo09]

Potato would have been ok to pick around, as it's non-compliant for more psychological reasons than dietary ones. I'm not sure about the hominy though.

[Physibeth]

Potato would have been ok to pick around, as it's non-compliant for more psychological reasons than dietary ones. I'm not sure about the hominy though.

 

My instinct is to agree with this. Could you ask your mother to make a small batch without the hominy? Are you sure the broth she is using is compliant as well?

[missmary]

yeah, the think with hominy is that it serves to thicken the broth: you couldn't pick it out because it is actually in the broth itself. Assuming your mother-in-law is using compliant broth, I think Bethany's suggestion is a good one: ask her to set some chicken and broth aside before adding the hominy so you can eat that portion.