I don't remember eating that red sauce. I guess my experience with A&W eons ago was limited to the root beer floats. But I did find several interviews online with the granddaughter and the son of the original inventor of the sauce. She said her grandmother created the recipe because her grandfather didn't like the taste of commercial ketchup. The family recipe still sold in Michigan supposedly has no sugar (though it may have some alternate sweetener). Also in several interviews she said there was "no vinegar" and in another interview she said it had "little vinegar" because her grandfather didn't like the taste of vinegar either (picky gentleman). Of course, again that doesn't preclude something like lemon juice. Carol

Sounds delicious. Thanks for sharing. I'm definitely going to try a batch of this :)

Well, I made the strawberry glaze, sliced the bananas and covered them with the glaze and then refridgerated it. I had extra sauce so I put in another dish. Well, the bananas and the glaze were so thick that I could pick up a square. So I made a jiffy cake mix and then when it was cool, I put the square on top. Remember that extra sauce? Well it was very thick so I warmed it and added a bit of water to thin. Then I used this on top as a topping after it had cooled. My husband loved it!! I thought it was very good too. Was like strawberry shortcake only with bananas.

Hi Mandie! I once had a work colleague with a kidney stone problem, he was extremely sick so I know what an ordeal you have been through. I thought your husband might be on a low oxalate diet because I have heard about it poisoning some animals when eaten at high levels. Actually I ended up doing some research on oxalic acids this summer because I got ambitious and made sorrel soup out of the wild sorrel weeds growing in my garden. I had read somewhere that it could be toxic but I found out only in large amounts, and also not good for people on a low oxalate diet, which was the first time I had heard of such a thing. Also obviously you would want to avoid a lot of protein and salt, both of which are very reactive substances for the kidneys to deal with. It all makes sense except the tomatoes thing. I found listing the oxalate levels of certain vegetables. Maybe it is just concentrated tomato sauce? Anyway, I don't know how your husband feels about hippie food, but I have been eating a diet lower in protein than the average American for almost all my life. We eat excessive amounts of protein, much more than is necessary in the US and it is acutally related to a lot of our health problems. I adore whole grain foods so could happily live on brown rice and whole grain pasta with some oatmeal, cornmeal, barley, wild rice and bulghur wheat thrown in for fun. I put a good stir fry made with brown rice on my list of the 10 best things I have ever put in my mouth. You could add bits of chicken or any other type of meat to it to add flavor. Luckily I see that corriander is low oxalate, so you can make delicious thai fried rice with ginger, cilantro, garlic and lime juice with a dash of hot pepper. Or go mild and make butternut squash lasagne with a white sauce. I think hubs could eat a mild white sauce if it was made with a lower salt cheese which you will have to search out. I have a lot of pasta dish recipes because I eat pasta almost every day. Also a lot of recipes for rice, like risi e bisi (italian for rice and peas). And a simple broth with tofu or a few meat pieces and lots of noodles is what the Chinese eat for lunch almost every day, it is good!! Rice stuffed squash is also a favorite of mine, and I eat a lot of roasted vegetables, many of which are on the low oxalate list. Of course if hubby is a meat and potatoes guy, this will be tough. He is just going to have to learn to be a rice or pasta plus a little meat kind of guy! Let me know if any of these kinds of foods sound good to you and I will post the recipes. Like I said, I eat some kind of whole grain based main course for every meal, but many folks aren't open to that style of eating because it is so unfamiliar. You can also eat the not whole grain versions too, which I guess are even lower in oxalates, like white rice and semolina pasta. Also, your husband can still eat bread, which for me is the staff of life. I eat bread with tea and jam for breakfast every morning. I love apple or peach jam, which is low oxalate. I also make mushroom barley soup which is good, and low oxalate. And due to being a person of very modest means, I eat cabbage almost exclusively as my salad green in the winter, and I see that it is low oxalate. I am the coleslaw queen, lol! Here is a link that might be useful: Low oxalate diet PDF from U. Pittsburgh Medical Center