It is amazing how much of the food we eat has sugar and/or
high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in it!
Pancakes, waffles, syrup, just about all bread, crackers (like Ritz,
Townhouse), Graham Crackers, cookies, bread, biscuits, bagels, ketchup,
spaghetti sauce, mayonnaise, Thousand Island/ French/Ranch/Honey Mustard Salad
Dressing (and many others), barbecue sauce, some seasonings, soda, koolaid,
juice cocktail (examples: grape, cranapple, sparkling juice cocktail, etc.),
ice cream, pudding, cake, candy bars, chocolate, and the list goes on and on!
Here’s a funny story:
when I first started, it took me about a week to weed out sugar &
HFCS from what I ate and drank. For
whatever reason, I thought Graham Crackers did not have sugar in it! LOL!
I ate an entire box of Crackers in one sitting!
There was another instance in the 1st 10 days or
so where I ate an entire box of Townhouse crackers. Since they were crackers, I thought they were
“safe”, so I didn’t look at the ingredients.
Then I looked and saw that they had sugar in it!
Of course, this change in food approach also meant no more
ice cream, cake, or milk shakes.
Several fast-food places came out with smoothies, but just about all of
them put sugar in it in addition to natural fruit sugar.
So I started to realize that I had to come up with some food
and drink swaps without resorting to “diet” drinks or dessert. I also needed to learn how to eat on holidays
and in restaurants.
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