There are the obvious things you can't eat when you say you aren't going to eat sugar.
Cake, umm yah
Candy bars, check
Fruit snacks, gotcha
Then there is the not so obvious things you can't eat when you say you aren't going to eat sugar. Brent and I spent close to two hours in Costco today and pretty much came out with next to nothing. The rule is that sugar, and those ingredients that we know are sugar even if it uses a fancy word to try and disguise the sugar, can not be in the first two ingredients.
This post is going to be my I can't believe how much sugar is in that post. I'm going to keep a list of items that I'm kind of shocked have sugar in the first two ingredients.
I knew that light yogurt was high in sugar but I assumed regular yogurt was not. Turns out that pretty much all yogurt list sugar as the second ingredient. Well every yogurt that Costco sells. Which, included "Activia" the commercial says it is the healthy yogurt, well maybe, but there is a lot of sugar in that healthy yogurt.
We couldn't find one brand of beef or turkey jerky where sugar was not the second ingredient.
Sugar second ingredient
I'm starting to think that this no sugar thing is going to be a lot more challenging than I initially believed.
Cake, umm yah
Candy bars, check
Fruit snacks, gotcha
Then there is the not so obvious things you can't eat when you say you aren't going to eat sugar. Brent and I spent close to two hours in Costco today and pretty much came out with next to nothing. The rule is that sugar, and those ingredients that we know are sugar even if it uses a fancy word to try and disguise the sugar, can not be in the first two ingredients.
This post is going to be my I can't believe how much sugar is in that post. I'm going to keep a list of items that I'm kind of shocked have sugar in the first two ingredients.
- Yogurt.
I knew that light yogurt was high in sugar but I assumed regular yogurt was not. Turns out that pretty much all yogurt list sugar as the second ingredient. Well every yogurt that Costco sells. Which, included "Activia" the commercial says it is the healthy yogurt, well maybe, but there is a lot of sugar in that healthy yogurt.
- Beef Jerky
We couldn't find one brand of beef or turkey jerky where sugar was not the second ingredient.
- Health Bars
Sugar second ingredient
I'm starting to think that this no sugar thing is going to be a lot more challenging than I initially believed.
Comments
The no-sugar thing may be harder than you expected, but from what I hear it's totally worth it.
I was more intrigued by the title of your post - now I'm gonna be singing "Say it Ain't So" by Weezer all day long! Thanks a whole lot!!!!! No, it's okay. Great song. :)
My mom always used to say that if it tastes good, it's probably bad for you. I was surprised to discover how high sugar was on the list of ingredients for our favorite spaghetti sauce....