{"id":1694,"date":"2007-06-12T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenbooks.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/12\/its-in-what\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T13:22:00","slug":"its-in-what-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2007\/06\/12\/its-in-what-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s in what??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:3px;\"><b>Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/\">Jen&#8217;s Corner<\/a>. You can comment here or <a href=\"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2007\/06\/12\/its-in-what\/\">there<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been trying to read food labels more lately; basically trying to avoid food from China, and high fructose corn syrup.  My $DEITY, that crap is in everything.  I&#8217;m also less enamored of artificial sweeteners too.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jif peanut butter?  HFCS.  I bought organic.  Hope I like it.\n<li>Smuckers jelly?  HFCS.  I bought HEB brand More Fruit &#8211; it&#8217;s got a minimum of ingredients.\n<li>The husband likes Smart Start cereal.  High Fucking Fructose Corn Syrup.  o_O  I bought him Cap&#8217;n Crunch Crunch Berries instead &#8211; fewer calories, less sodium, and I <em>think<\/em> less fat, though it does have a lower vitamin percentage.  No HFCS though.  I bought myself some Cheerios instead.  Lucky for me, with the exception of Lucky Charms, I prefer plain cereal:  Total, Cheerios, Grape Nuts Flakes.  No HFCS in those, although the Lucky Charms does have corn syrup.  I probably should avoid that as well. \n<li>Campbell&#8217;s Tomato Soup?  HFCS.  I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> disgruntled about that.  I love that stuff.  Got nine cans of it in the pantry at the moment.\n<li>All of the brand name &#8220;maple&#8221; syrups?  HFCS <strong>and<\/strong> corn syrup.\n<li>My <em>bread<\/em> has HFCS &#8211; Sara Lee Whole Grain White (yeah, yeah, I know).<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m appalled, and shocked, though I shouldn&#8217;t be.  It&#8217;s really kind of weird sliding more and more towards organic foods.  Last month I decided to give organic milk a shot.  Now, I don&#8217;t really like milk &#8211; I never have.  I use it in cooking a lot, and for cereal, but drinking it is a rarity.  Before the husband, I&#8217;d buy it in quarts and it&#8217;d still go bad before I used it.  Rob likes to drink milk at meals, so now I&#8217;m buying gallons.  Anyhow, I bought some 2% organic milk, and tried a glass.  It was actually almost good!  I mean, it was still milk, but it tasted 100% better than the milk I&#8217;ve always had before.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I gotta think about getting to my hair appointment now, so I guess that&#8217;s all the griping about HFCS I&#8217;ve got for today.  I&#8217;m going to try to slowly cut that crap out, and buy food with ingredients I can understand.<\/p>\n<p>Bread.  What in the bleeding hells is it doing in <em>bread<\/em>??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published at Jen&#8217;s Corner. You can comment here or there. So I&#8217;ve been trying to read food labels more lately; basically trying to avoid food from China, and high fructose corn syrup. My $DEITY, that crap is in everything. I&#8217;m also less enamored of artificial sweeteners too. Jif peanut butter? HFCS. I bought organic. Hope I like it. Smuckers jelly? HFCS. I bought HEB brand More Fruit &#8211; it&#8217;s got a minimum of ingredients. The husband likes Smart Start cereal. High Fucking Fructose Corn Syrup. o_O I bought him Cap&#8217;n Crunch Crunch Berries instead &#8211; fewer calories, less sodium, and I think less fat, though it does have a lower vitamin percentage. No HFCS though. I bought myself some Cheerios instead. Lucky for me, with the exception of Lucky Charms, I prefer plain cereal: Total, Cheerios, Grape Nuts Flakes. No HFCS in those, although the Lucky Charms does have corn syrup. I probably should avoid that as well. Campbell&#8217;s Tomato Soup? HFCS. I&#8217;m really disgruntled about that. I love that stuff. Got nine cans of it in the pantry at the moment. All of the brand name &#8220;maple&#8221; syrups? HFCS and corn syrup. My bread has HFCS &#8211; Sara Lee Whole Grain White (yeah, yeah, I know). I&#8217;m appalled, and shocked, though I shouldn&#8217;t be. It&#8217;s really kind of weird sliding more and more towards organic foods. Last month I decided to give organic milk a shot. Now, I don&#8217;t really like milk &#8211; I never have. I use it in cooking a lot, and for cereal, but drinking it is a rarity. Before the husband, I&#8217;d buy it in quarts and it&#8217;d still go bad before I used it. Rob likes to drink milk at meals, so now I&#8217;m buying gallons. Anyhow, I bought some 2% organic milk, and tried a glass. It was actually almost good! I mean, it was still milk, but it tasted 100% better than the milk I&#8217;ve always had before. Well, I gotta think about getting to my hair appointment now, so I guess that&#8217;s all the griping about HFCS I&#8217;ve got for today. I&#8217;m going to try to slowly cut that crap out, and buy food with ingredients I can understand. Bread. What in the bleeding hells is it doing in bread??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49,54,70,9],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-food","tag-hfcs","tag-much-ado","tag-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}