Yesterday I went grocery shopping. Oh my!!!! It was rather exciting to walk in and know that NOTHING was forbidden. Not that we aren't better off NOT eating processed foods, but there seems to be a difference between knowing I can't buy something and knowing I'm not going to buy it. I browsed every aisle....though that was mostly because they have remodeled my neighborhood supermarket and the aisles are INSANELY long and even if I don't need something at one end of the aisle, by the end of it there's something I want.
I flirted briefly with the idea of buying some Ben & Jerry's ice cream, but I guess perhaps I've developed more simple tastes this year. They have flavors like chocolate with chocolate pieces, or ones with 15 different things in them, and I seem to have grown accustomed to "chocolate" or "vanilla," or on a really wild day, chocolate with peanut butter stripes. 37 ingredients was a bit overwhelming, so no ice cream.
There were a lot of things that were no longer tempting, but forbidden foods that I did come home with:
* a Black Forest ham
* a boneless pork roast
* salad dressing
* hoisin sauce
* chocolate chips
* cream cheese
* black olives
* Grape Nuts cereal
It was sooooooo exciting! I've used the chocolate chips (and since I only really like the cookie dough and not really the cookies), they'll be frozen so Andy can occasionally have one with his afternoon coffee, and we used salad dressing yesterday (yay!), but I know enough not to make it a free-for-all. I don't think any of my "forbidden foods" contain high fructose corn syrup, so that made me feel better.
It was a bit of a shock how much more expensive processed foods are. Even the small number of items I bought increased our bill by around 40%. Holy cow!
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I thought your food bill would go down with processed foods - it always seems that the unhealthy choice is cheaper than the healthier choice! But maybe that doesn't hold for unprocessed versus processed.
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