This week in recipes + an update on “no added sugar”
Since we started the week with no groceries, I didn’t exactly set myself up for success! I had no options to add to my coffee except my pumpkin spice almond creamer, and I was so damn tired after flying home from Atlanta Monday morning, going straight to work, then going straight to or anniversary dinner Monday night that there was NO way I wasn’t drinking that coffee!
I buy the Silk brand – it’s actually a pretty good product overall. It’s really tasty, and carrageenan free, dairy and gluten free, and has no artificial color… but it does have cane sugar. 1 Tbsp has 4g of added sugar – which is 1/6 of the total recommended cap on added sugar for women. Obviously, this can be part of a healthy diet – but the point is that it’s hidden everywhere. I also used Trader Joe’s Sweet & Spicy Mango Vinaigrette one night (again, we had it and I don’t want to waste it), and guess what? Cane sugar!
And it didn’t stop there. I had Trader Joe’s pastrami-style smoked salmon, because it sounded interesting (cane sugar!) and Costco turkey bacon (don’t have the package but I can’t image it not having sugar). And on Friday I definitely drunkenly ate some gingersnaps. See, that’s why this is so much harder than Whole30 for me, even though it’s far less limited. Whole30 is so black and white that it makes it easy for me not to cheat. AND by eliminating alcohol, it eliminates lowered inhibitions that may lead to pretending you think gingersnaps are crackers, just because they’re next to the cheese.
That reminds me, have you ever tried gingersnaps with blue cheese? It’s something I learned in Sweden, and it’s very good!
Anyway, I still did pretty well this week. I said “NO” to a lot of things! Like pie (with whipped cream!), a team cookie break, the candy jar, *A LOT* of Halloween treats, and any sugar and whipped cream in my coffee. And ironically, it was the latter that I miss most. I’m pretty good at saying no to work treats. They’re there so often that I’m pretty selective. But I’d gotten in a pretty bad habit of satisfying my post-lunch sweet tooth with mediocre chocolate and funneling sugar into my coffee, and this has definitely helped me break those habits!
Did I mention I really miss whipped cream?
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