This is mostly for accountability for myself. Even though R8chel has told me repeatedly that “no one cares what you eat for lunch.” Here are some food reflections anyway.
- I am finding it surprisingly easy to avoid corn syrup. Maybe it has something to do with how I eat normally, or maybe it’s do with the fact that more people are avoiding it and so manufacturers are using less of it. In fact, the only food item I miss that contains corn syrup is granola bars, and technically I could make my own and be fine. Now there are a number of “food-like substances” I miss that contain corn syrup. They are generally of the gummy variety, such as bears, worms and fruit snacks. I can live without these I think.
- Sugar is harder. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve thought “What I wouldn’t give for a cookie” and there are really some areas where it’s impossible to avoid sugar. Here are some of them:
- Bread in restaurants- since I’m not giving up eating out I will inevitably eat bread with sugar in it (and probably corn syrup too) I’ve made my own for at home that contains neither of these, but in restaurants I’m just eating it.
- Salad dressing in restaurants- (see above comments)
- Other occasional prepared foods- I just bought my favorite Asian convenience food and discovered the sauce has sugar in it. I will probably eat it anyway.
- And perhaps a failure today when I bought “Back to Nature” Oatmeal cookies. It says “Evaporated Cane Juice” that’s probably sugar. Technically not refined sugar, which is what I was giving up, but still is probably against the spirit of Lent.
All in all, I’m glad I’m not Jesus. I wouldn’t have lasted forty days in the desert and I have been a total disaster if the devil had said to me “Turn these stones into cookies.”
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Actually, that’s Margaret Mason’s opinion, and I occasionally choose to disagree.