Being a self admitted sugar addict who has been off the hooch for five weeks means I have to look extremely carefully at all ingredients when I buy "health" food.
I'm not real bad, you know. It's not like I chug Aunt Jemima maple syrup while I hide behind my kitchen cupboard. (No self respecting east coaster would eat syrup made with corn syrup.) I don't pack white sugar in between my gums and lips. (Mostly because it gives me shivers down my back when I mistakenly chew on it.) And, I certainly don't eat flat Hershey candy bars. However, kisses, especially with almonds, are a different creature all together!
My gal pal, Dayna, and I have talked about this. Sugar is like cocaine. One small square of 75% plus of dark chocolate is not bad for the average person. Unless you are an addict. Nibbling on one square turns into popping the whole chunk in your mouth because you want it to "melt" on your tongue. Yeah, right.
Before I know it, a second square is magically in my hands and since it's broken off from the family, it has to be eaten. Somehow, in a matter of less than a day, that 4$ bar of chocolate has one square left that has to be eaten because the paper is messing up the cupboard.
The whole progression is ugly. It leaves me feeling like ants are crawling around on my head and my pores are clogged with sugar crystals. That's why it totally pisses me off to find sugar, in whatever disguise it is wearing, in my healthy purchases. And, it really pisses me off that I have recently discovered that reading the ingredients on most packages requires me to squint and, or, hold the packages away from body in order to focus on the words. WTF!
But, it is worth it. Every bloody expensive cent is worth taking the time to look for the foods that make my body sing with happiness and free my mind of the scourge of sugar guilt.
.......I am still annoyed about the tiny print on the packages.........
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I told my wife I need readers. She said I was old. I reminded her that I am a year younger than she is. I sleep on the couch.
I have the same issues with Pizza. It is not sugar but it may as well be crack. I cannot resist the stuff. Luckily pizza is not hidden in every product. But if were then it would be a very wonderful world.
Women are smarter than men....I sleep in a bed. Pizza is the halloween costume for sugar. Evil.
hmmph... what's wrong with sugar? TB
I 'heart' sugar! I just can't make it a bedfellow.
I'd be watching for the evil step cousin... the high fructose corn syrup devil. Now that's worth skippin'. Been shown in research to give mice high blood pressure... lucky we aint mice!
I don't make eye contact with that character.
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