kirkor wrote: »

Ya, seems like sugar or soy are in every damn thing.

I can't believe all the stuff soy is used in. Nearly every label has it listed somewhere. There was a conversation a couple days ago about twizzlers, I know none of us eat those frequently, if at all, but my sister used to eat a bag a day, then she had to go gluten free, I was stunned to find the second ingredient after corn syrup is wheat flour.

Truly shows how little attention I paid to this stuff before this woe.

I grew up on Jif creamy peanut butter (with the sugars and all). I remember when they first came out with Reeses Peanut Butter and I found molasses on the label. It actually gives it a wonderfully different flavour and also a touch of iron. I would thereafter seek out peanut butter with molasses in it.
I can't remember when, but at some point, I started buying natural peanut butter. I was scared of it at first because it looked all gross and separated in the jar. Nobody ever taught me how to prepare it for use. I finally discovered that you could turn it upside down on the counter for a while then mix it up with a knife or spoon, and put it into the freezer to help solidify it in its mixed state. That same process works for almond butter, too, which I had started having sometimes instead...and now I actually prefer plain almond butter over any other nut butters.
Of course now I rarely eat any nut butter because my carbs are SO low, but when I do, I have the almond or macadamia nut butter. Mac nut butter pretty much ONLY comes in "natural" separated state.
Fun times.

MSG...oh man yes.
Pick up a bag of flavoured pork rinds / chicharrones. Read ingredients. Weep, and grab the plain bag instead with a dish of Daisy sour cream.

-T.

I'm a celiac so automatically a good 80% of processed foods aren't safe for me or my family. I get annoyed when it says "May contain gluten" on nuts though. Ugh. It's in many sausages, sauces (soy or worchestershire), beef jerky... Why does beef jerky need gluten?!

It does make the cereal aisle easy though. There is only GF Rice Chex or the "healthy" flax/chia type cereals.... My boys don't even bother asking anymore. LOL

I was complaining about the company Hampton Creek showing an EGG in their logo..so eco groovy a mayo..but there is NO EGG..and they are being sued for the marketing sneakiness by Hellmans.

I KNOW most mayo is not real anymore, they all have soybean oil....and dont buy it. It is what it is ..so I am free to choose.

But to IMPLY/INFER your product is so healthy, etc..and it be a marketing lie really ticked me off.. I complained to them, and tell everyone. ..boycot if you like. My HFS stopped selling it. ( oh and the tricky part?..they don't SHOW a real egg..the label has a die cut "egg shape" in the plain brown wrapper label..to indicate 'goodness and eco healthy, we're anon commercial" Mayo..which is even worse in my book.
http://time.com/money/3578338/just-mayo-hellmanns-mayonnaise-lawsuit/

REPLY: Helen Cox <wecare@hamptoncreek.com>
Thanks for the feedback , So sorry if something was misleading, definitely not the intent. << really? why not square shape then?

Twizzlers- licorice..so disappoiting. NO real licorice in any of it..all wheat and HFCS and junk dyes.

ceciliaslater wrote: »

I was at my parents' house over the weekend and looking for something quick and easy for a snack. I saw a jar of peanut butter--it's the cheap/generic stuff--so I picked it up and looked at the label. I was not the least bit surprised to see corn syrup on there. Regular peanut butter always has either corn syrup or sugar. What did surprise me was a tad farther down the ingredients list: molasses! Really?! Molasses?! Why??? Needless to say, I kept on searching.

What items have you found to have surprising ingredients?

My sweet son got me some "natural! No sugar added!" PB the other day. I sure love him. But... Sweetened with honey. Lol. Well, he likes it anyway.

We got snowed in several years ago at a friend's house. When my then-4 year old daughter requested a snack of banana and peanut butter I warned her that it wasn't the peanut butter she's used to (she never tried anything other than natural). She tasted one bite and made a disgusted face and refused to eat it lol.

ceciliaslater wrote: »

I blend the oil back into nut butters using a hand mixer--scrape it into a bowl, mix it up, then pour it back into the jar and refrigerate. I don't have the patience for hand stirring it, and some brands are definitely more challenging to hand stir than others.

This is genius!

carom wrote: »

minties82 wrote: »

We don't have sugar in peanut butter in New Zealand, so it always surprises me to hear it does overseas.

Hi Nzer!
I live in chch and there is sugar in lot of the peanut butters here in NZ. You have to read the labels all the time. At the moment I have a jar of Pics peanut butter, it is delish. no sugar.

I don't eat the stuff, it's gross, but never seen anything other than nuts and oil as an ingredient? I think I have pams and eta in the cupboard for the kids.

My natural pb says to refrigerate. Is it necessary?

Flaxseed mayo? I think I'll stick with the egg, myself.

I tried making my own mayo with EVOO once... definitely DO NOT recommend! I think I will try avocado or camellina oil next.

Labels??? We don't do no stink'en Labels!!! Most foods I like don't have them anyway.

2Poufs wrote: »

Sugar in all its forms is always what amazes me. A gastric bypass literally bypasses the portion of the upper intestine that does most of the sugar processing. Ingesting more than a little sugar (5g or less) in any form, including natural, has some... extremely unpleasant consequences. We'll leave it at that, but you can Google "dumping syndrome" if you're interested.

So yah, anything my body recognizes as sugar or breaks down into sugar... cane, beet, maple, date, hfcs, agave, honey, glucose, fructose, galactose, dextrose, sucrose, maltose, and even lactose, rice, corn, potato, and coconut sugars if I ingest it in high quantities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_dumping_syndrome

@2Poufs thanks for the info about the "dumping syndrome". I did not realize gastric surgery could make low carb eating a required way of life for some. No wonder it can lead to weight loss.

Sugar is in everything. I gave up refined sugar for Lent a couple of years ago. I couldn't eat 95% of the stuff in the grocery store anymore. That's when I learned how to "shop the perimeter", you know, where all the non-processed, healthy stuff is.