Moved from the Budget Board: anyone else eliminating High Fructose Corn Syrup

[jenrose66]

I would LOVE to do this. I haven't done it yet, but I'm anxious to hear from those who have.

 

[Mom-to-2-Princesses]

Almost all the varieties of Aunt Millie's home style bread have no high frutose corn syrup. The end of the loaf (which faces you in the supermarket) has a blue circle with gold around it (like an award) with a huge NO High Frutose Corn Syrup on it. I was so happy because my kids like the "softer" breads. We get the Cracked Wheat with Whole Grain, but I notice almost all the varieties had the circle.

We are in Michigan and I saw the bread is baked on Fort Wayne, IN -- I don't know if it is regional or national.

TTFN!

 

[IluvKingLouis]

I checked aunt Millies website and it is regional. Too bad, I checked the ingredients on their blueberry and coffecake muffins and both were without HFCS.

 

[Swimnoid]

I gave up Mt Dew a month ago for all sorts of health reasons. Then a couple of days ago I was at a restaurant with a serve your self soda machine with Mt Dew. I tried some to see if I had lost any of the taste for it since it is so sweet. Nope, still tasted great. Its like crack...just can't do it.

Also after reading this thread I went to the cupboards to see how much HFCS I had. Surprisingly, there wasnt as much as I thought there would be. But I checked my pizza rolls box (a gulity pleasure)...no HFCS but a list of ingredients as long as my leg that I couldnt pronounce! I dont see how ANY of it could be food! So no more of those either!

Shame on you all for making me more aware!

 

[kandeebunny]

I had to give it up due to a corn allergy...but my Heinz Organic ketchup says nothing about corn syrup...help LOL! That might explain a lot...

Glucose and Fructose syrups are USUALLY corn based it depends on the manufacturer.

 

[wowsmom]

I gave up Mt Dew a month ago for all sorts of health reasons. Then a couple of days ago I was at a restaurant with a serve your self soda machine with Mt Dew. I tried some to see if I had lost any of the taste for it since it is so sweet. Nope, still tasted great. Its like crack...just can't do it.

Good to know I'm not the only one who can't lose the taste for soda (although in my case, it's Coca Cola).

 

[FirstTimertoDiz]

This has been an interesting thread; I was on insulin for my gestational diabetes when I was pregnant with ds. Diabetes runs in my family, and I have been watching my blood sugars since my pregnancy 4 years ago.

I have been careful about sugar, but not about hfcs, but I am certainly more aware after spotting this thread about a week ago....seems this stuff turns up in the most unlikely places!

For example, I am on a round of clomid right now, and I have to take 4 tsp of Robitussin a day; I checked the bottle tonight, and you guessed it- HFCS!!! In cough medicine??!!?! I will have to go scouting to see if there are any that don't have it in.

Thanks to the op for starting this thread- it has been a real eye-opener.

 

[bumbershoot]

For anyone who might be in an area where there are Tully's Coffee places, they use a Ghiradelli chocolate sauce* for their cocoas and mochas, and it does NOT have HFCS in it.

We've had to stop getting Starbucks cocoa b/c DS's behaviour after having a kid's cocoa is atrocious (when I make him cocoa at home from good ingredients he is fine, it's not sugar that's doing it). I haven't yet asked them what brand syrup/sauce they use, but I would bet that it has HFCS in it.



*their white chocolate mix or sauce, however, DOES have it, according to the nice employee who helped me out.

 

[IluvKingLouis]

We're headed to WDW next week. I've been trying to figure out how to minimize HFCS while there.

I know it's in hamburger/hotdog buns, so I may be skipping veggie burgers (I may make an exception). From reading labels at supermarkets, it appears that tortilla's and wraps do not have this. So I'll be ordering a lot of wrap sandwiches on this next trip. I should be safe with salads if I can skip the dressings and get by with a squeeze of lemon. Should be ok with chili, any fresh fruit, hummus and the other grains in Morocco, and turkey legs.

Does anyone know how the hot pretzels might rate? I should try to swing by the grocery store and read up on the ones in the freezer.

For the most part I plan to enjoy myself and not get obsessive about this. But if given several appealing choices, I'd like to make the smartest decission.

 

[ZPT1022]

Did the poster with the yummy bread recipes ever come back to share the recipes? I would really appreciate it if he or she would

 

[Piffle]

For example, I am on a round of clomid right now, and I have to take 4 tsp of Robitussin a day; I checked the bottle tonight, and you guessed it- HFCS!!! In cough medicine??!!?! I will have to go scouting to see if there are any that don't have it in.


To this poster: You can take Mucinex. It has the same active ingredient, but is in pill form. It works even better than Robitussin for this purpose in my experience. (babydust****)

 

[Chicago526]

I only got half way through the thread, boy is this long! I just decided last week to go organic for fruits/veggies due to pestisides but now I think I'm going to attempt to eliminate HFCS and "diet" stuff like pop and artificial sweeteners. I'm trying to get pregnant and DH is type II diabetic so we've got a real incentive.

I just wanted to mention to those that are having trouble find products in the stores, that Alton Brown's show "Good Eats" on the Food Network makes a lot of home made goodies. He has had shows on making granola (his oats show), jam and jelly (his preserves show) chocolate syrup and home made hot coco mix (one of his chocolate shows), bread (his bread show) and a lot of other things. Start taping his show or look up his receipes on www.foodnetwork.com. His show is lots of fun to watch, too!

Anyway, I made my first shoping trip looking for organic stuff last weekend at Trader Joes, and I'm happy to report everything we tried was really good! Their organic yogurt has natural sugar, the organic granola was very good, so was the organic milk and oj. Their organic rasberrys were excellent (expensive, but soooo good! espeicaly added to the yogurt and granola!). DH picked up a corn salsa that he said he liked, and the organic frozen veggies are very good too. Trader Joes is a longer drive (15 minutes vs 5 minutes to Jewel) but I think it will be worth it, especially if I plan my trips well. I can't wait for Whole Foods to open near me. Well, "near" being about 30 minutes, but it beats not having one!

So, I think I'm hooked! I've already got a list going for my second trip to Trader Joe's, I may go tonight because we're low on milk already.

 

[Princess_Michelle]

Anyway, I made my first shoping trip looking for organic stuff last weekend at Trader Joes, and I'm happy to report everything we tried was really good! Their organic yogurt has natural sugar, the organic granola was very good, so was the organic milk and oj. Their organic rasberrys were excellent (expensive, but soooo good! espeicaly added to the yogurt and granola!). DH picked up a corn salsa that he said he liked, and the organic frozen veggies are very good too. Trader Joes is a longer drive (15 minutes vs 5 minutes to Jewel) but I think it will be worth it, especially if I plan my trips well. I can't wait for Whole Foods to open near me. Well, "near" being about 30 minutes, but it beats not having one!

So, I think I'm hooked! I've already got a list going for my second trip to Trader Joe's, I may go tonight because we're low on milk already.

I know, isn't Trader Joes GREAT??? Do you have a Whole Foods Market near you? Most of their stuff is pretty pricey, but a lot of it is the same price as regular stores. I just gor milk from there the other day for the SAME price as my local store. The eggs are all cage free, so they are b/t $2 and $3. I spend more money there, but the stuff is SO much better for you, and they have such a wide variety of stuff.

 

[Chicago526]

I know, isn't Trader Joes GREAT??? Do you have a Whole Foods Market near you? Most of their stuff is pretty pricey, but a lot of it is the same price as regular stores. I just gor milk from there the other day for the SAME price as my local store. The eggs are all cage free, so they are b/t $2 and $3. I spend more money there, but the stuff is SO much better for you, and they have such a wide variety of stuff.

They're opening up one about 30 minutes from here in the next year I think, at least that's the rumor I heard, I hope it's true! Meanwhile I should do okay with TJ's and the organic section of Jewel and Dominick's.

 

[FirstTimertoDiz]

For example, I am on a round of clomid right now, and I have to take 4 tsp of Robitussin a day; I checked the bottle tonight, and you guessed it- HFCS!!! In cough medicine??!!?! I will have to go scouting to see if there are any that don't have it in.


To this poster: You can take Mucinex. It has the same active ingredient, but is in pill form. It works even better than Robitussin for this purpose in my experience. (babydust****)

Thanks so much for the tip! I will have to check into that! Thanks for the babydust too....I can use all the help I can get.

 

[christinadei]

I know exactly what you mean!

What I find really difficult is finding a healthy snack I can send with my son to eat at school - he eats breakfast at 7:15 and doesn't get lunch until 12:30 or so and tends to have hypoglycemia, so a quick, portable snack is a necessity. I've been sending the chewy granola bars, even though I know they aren't the best choice, but they fit easily in his gym bag (nutrition break is right after gym) and he can eat them quickly. I should probably try to switch him to the Kashi TLC granola bars...not sure if he'd go for them or not...and then there's the fact that a box of 6 Kashi bars costs about $3-4.

DS likes the Kashi granola bars, and I found them BOGO at Publix yesterday. I got 4 boxes and 4 boxes of Kashi cereal, also BOGO. Sam's also has big boxes of the Kashi granola bars. Hopefully this helps!

 

[wowsmom]

DS likes the Kashi granola bars, and I found them BOGO at Publix yesterday. I got 4 boxes and 4 boxes of Kashi cereal, also BOGO. Sam's also has big boxes of the Kashi granola bars. Hopefully this helps!

Thanks, I've been picking up extra Kashi bars when they've been on sale at Target. We've been working on eating up the rest of the regular granola bars we'd been buying and then I'll have DS try the Kashi ones. I also bought some ClifZ kids bars (I think that's what they are called) for him to try.

 

[christinadei]

I want to thank everyone for their contributions to this post (and especially the OP for starting it). I read it when it first started and decided to look up info about HFCS. I have already cut out trans fat and have been thinking about cutting out HFCS as well. I am not interested in feeding chemicals to DS and I bet if I switch to a more natural diet, I'd probably lose some weight too! Well, I had a parent teach conference last week and the teacher thinks DS7 may have ADD. I did some reasearch and it's the calmer form of ADD, which causes kids to have a hard time concentrating. After thinking long and hard and doing reasearch on ADD treatments, I've decided not to get him tested (for now) and to try to change his diet instead. I would not put him on meds if I didn't absolutely have to, so even if they said he had ADD, this is what I'd try. Plus, it's good for all of us and certainly won't hurt. We already follow a lot of the other behavioral type treatments, so we'll continue those as well. So yesterday I stocked up on tons of healthy stuff at Publix. I got a heaping cart full of stuff for $140 and a lot of things I got 4 of, because they were bogo (100% juice, Kashi, etc.). I was so schocked at what included HFCS! But I am feeling great today after eating so healthy and natural.

 

[Sehsun]

DS likes the Kashi granola bars, and I found them BOGO at Publix yesterday. I got 4 boxes and 4 boxes of Kashi cereal, also BOGO. Sam's also has big boxes of the Kashi granola bars. Hopefully this helps!

I also took advantage of the BOGO free Kashi granola bars and bought 2 boxes! I would have bought more but I have quite a bit of homemade granola at home. This time I tried Peanut Peanut Butter (I have only tried Honey Almond Flax), and it is pretty good - not super sweet like your typical granola bar.

I bought 6 boxes of Kashi cereal - 4 boxes of Heart to Heart, my favorite (as I already mentioned on this thread), and a box each of Go Lean and Autumn Wheat.

Kashi cereal doesn't have sales very often, so when there is a sale, I tend to stock up a lot. I love their very healthy ingredients - never any hydrogenation or HFCS. I saw that the granola bar ingredients do not mention sugar - only things like rice syrup and molasses (and probably other things, but I can't remember right now).

 

[mom2grace]

Where are you guys finding the Kashi on sale?

I LOVE the cherry chocolate chewy granola bars!