Five Easy Changes To Get Hidden Sugars Out of Your Diet
We all know that candy and cookies and pancake syrup are full of sugars and high fructose corn syrup. And if we want to get healthy and treat our CARB Syndrome, we’ll have to give ‘em up, but what else? Where are sugars hidden in your diet?
Here are five easy ways to knock the hidden sugars out of your world.
5 easy changes you can make in your diet to get the sugar out
1. Don’t drink sodas. If they’re not laced with HFCS, they’re punched up with sugars or artificial sweeteners which can trick your body into thinking it’s had sugars. Ixnay to all of it. Drink lemon water instead. That’s simply a glass of iced water with a squeeze of lemon, and stevia if you must.
2. Pass the aisles in the grocery store with all the salad dressings and sugary condiments. Say no to ketchup, pasta sauces, canned soups, and do learn to make your own salad dressing. A bit of extra virgin olive oil, a shot of red wine vinegar and a tad of mustard makes a better salad dressing than you can buy.
3. Prepared oatmeals. You know the ones. They’re sold in the little packets and labeled “Maple flavored”, or some such. The Some such is nearly always sugar or HFCS. You want oatmeal for breakfast? Choose old fashioned plain oats and splash some blueberries in. You want cold cereal? No you don’t. All of them have hidden sugars.
4. Salsa and Chips? You’re kidding right? There’s no sugar in that. Read the labels. Many salsas are sweetened with HFCS and chips too.
You want a crunchy snack? Try celery sticks and Boursin cheese or plain almond butter. But read the labels on all nut butters. Lots of brands dose them up with HFCS.
5. Finally, say YES to whole, organic foods, the ones that don’t require a “list of ingredients”, because that list, in today’s world so often hides sugars and HFCS and you don’t want that. Not now. Not ever. Visit Farmers’ Markets. Join a CSA. Get out of the grocery store as often as you can.