Not Your Grandma's Cookies

Grandma's Cookies
With a name like that, you might think it is clean and unjunky. But you are WRONG. Look at this:

 Does this look like your Grandmothers cookies to YOU?

No is the right answer. It is a pile of sugar, HFCS, TBHQ, Caramel Color and Artificial Flavor. The chocolate chip Grandma flavor even has 0.5g trans fat!

Cookies I recommend

Homemade

Newman O's

Tate's

Bye!

Oreos + recipe

Oreos are the #1 bestselling cookie in America. But how bad are they? Let's look: 3 cookies are 14g sugar and a whopping 0g fiber. And the ingredients:

INGREDIENTS: UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, PALM AND/OR CANOLA OIL, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SALT, SOY LECITHIN, CHOCOLATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR.

HFCS: Likely HFCS-90 which can cause liver damage
Artificial flavor: Hidden chemicals.
White flour: Lacking any nutrition.
Sugar: Why use sugar when you have HFCS

Instead make these

Homemade Oreos:
You will need
Cookie:
Whole wheat flour 1 cup
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp chocolate chips
1/3 cup cocoa powder
3 tbsp oil of choice
2/3 cup water
1 egg
Creme:
1/4 cup half and half
1/4 cup water
7 tsp sugar
Instructions:
Combine all the cookie ingredients in bowl
Combine creme ingredients in separate bowl
Cut cookie dough and poke holes
Assemble sandwich cookies (you should have 24 fully assembled cookies)
Bake until crunchy
Enjoy!
Nutrition:
185 calories
9g fat
3g saturated
25g carbs
12g sugar
3g fiber
4g protein

A visual of ketchup

This was taken by me. What you see is a tablespoon of ketchup and a teaspoon of sugar. Comparison here

Ketchup 14g
Sugar 4g

Almost 1/3 sugar!!!
And you use two and a half squirts so here:

Ketchup 35g
Sugar 10g

10g sugar is the same as:
10 bowls of Cheerios
1 bowl of Trix
1 peanut butter cup
5 slices bread
4 jolly ranchers
1/4 cup ice cream
And compare to mini wheats (21% sugar) ice cream (20% sugar).
In conclusion, stick to the serving size.

Skippy P.B. Bites. Read to be surprised!

First, I love peanut butter but Skippy was never my go-to (Jif was). But I appreciate Skippy. But, Skippy you shocked me with your P.B Bites. Look:

Nutrition Info

• Serving Size: 
  30g
• Servings per container: 
  varies

• Amount per serving
• Calories
   160

• Total Fat
   10g
• Saturated Fat
   7g
• Cholesterol
   5mg
• Sodium
   120mg
• Carbohydrates
   14g
• Fiber
   0g
• Sugar
   8g
• Protein 
  5g

7(!!!) grams of saturated fat in a SNACK.

For comparison a hot pocket has 6g saturated fat.

And the ingredients:

• Ingredients: Peanut Butter Flavored Center (Sugar, Wheat Flour, Peanut Butter [Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil {Cottonseed, Soybean and Rapeseed Oil}, Salt], Glycerin, Palm Kernel Oil, Whey Protein Concentrate, Peanut Flour, Corn Starch, Natural Flavor, Soy Lecithin),  Peanut Butter Coating (Palm Kernel Oil, Sugar, Peanut Flour, Nonfat Milk, Peanut Butter [Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil  {Cottonseed, Soybean, Rapeseed Oil}, Salt], Whey Protein Concentrate, Dextrose, Cocoa, [Processed with Alkali], Mono- and Diglycerides, Whey, Whole Milk, Salt, Soy Lecithin)
• Palm kernel oil: 80% saturated fat, not good
• Mono and digycerites: Trans fat
• Glycerin: A chemical
• Whey Protein : A protein additive.
• Well this is a processed junk.

Low fat Lemon squares

Serves 6

Ingredients

1/2 cup lemon juice
1 lemon
2.5 tbsp sugar
3 packets sweet additions stevia
1 can pumpkin
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg yolk
3 honey maid cookies
6 servings whipped cream

Directions

1. Combine salt, stevia, sugar.

2. Combine lemon, juice, pumpkin and yolk.
3. Cut cookies into halves.
4. Add the mixture to cookies
5. Bake for 12-18 mins.
6 Add whipped cream
7. Enjoy!
Nutrition:
1 square 83 calories 16g carbs 2g fat 1g fiber 9g sugar

Pumpkin? Don't believe the marketing.

It's that time again! Fall!
Aka pumpkin season
But don't believe it!
Look at the sugar counts

PSL: 12.5 tsp Grande with whip
Pumpkin spice mini wheats: 3 tsp (1 cup serving)
Pumpkin spice Milano 2.5 tsp (2 cookies)
Pumpkin cheesecake Ben & Jerry's 6 tsp (1/2 cup)
Pumpkin pie Larabar 5 tsp (1 bar)
Pumpkin donut 5 tsp (1 donut)
Pumpkin pie cliff 6 tsp (1 bar)
Pumpkin spice instant oatmeal 2.5 tsp (1 pack)

Pumpkin season more like sugar season!
But!!!!
Pumpkin can be healthy.
I will post a lemon square recipe that uses pumpkin
as a fat substitute. So look out later today!

Why Halloween candy is a nightmare

Let's look at some classics per .7 oz serving:
M&m's:

• Calories95
• Total Fat4 g
• Saturated Fat2.5 g
• Total Carbohydrate14 g
• Dietary Fiber0.4 g
• Sugars13 g

Gummy bears:

• Calories70
• Total Carbohydrate16 g
• Dietary Fiber0.0 g
• Sugars                                      11 g

Kit Kats:

• Calories105
• Total Fat6 g
• Saturated Fat                              4 g
• Total Carbohydrate13.5 g
• Dietary Fiber0.5 g
• Sugars10 g
• Protein2 g

York:

• Calories70.
• Total Fat1 g
• Saturated Fat1 g
• Total Carbohydrate16 g
• Dietary Fiber0.5 g
• Sugars13 g
• Protein1 g

Mounds:

• Calories90
• Total Fat5 g
• Saturated Fat4 g
• Total Carbohydrate11 g
• Dietary Fiber1 g
• Sugars9 g
• Protein1 g

Why is this a problem? you may ask and it is a problem because you are consuming multiple servings.

And this will happen:

2 mounds 180 calories 10g fat 8g saturated 18g sugar

2 Kit Kats 210 calories 12g fat 8g saturated 20g sugar

2 packs of gummy bears 140 calories 22g sugar

1 pack of M&Ms 95 calories 4g fat 3g saturated 13g sugar

1 York 70 calories 1g fat 1g saturated 13g sugar

That adds up to 695 calories 31g fat 20g saturated (a day's worth!) and 86g sugar

So what do I give?

Snyder's of Handover mini pretzels 60 calories 12g carbs 120mg sodium

Unreal Dark Chocolate peanut butter cups 80 calories 6g fat 2.5g saturated 5g sugar

Graham cracker pouches

Fruit (risky)

Here are some ingredients from junky brands: 

M&M's

MILK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE, SKIM MILK, COCOA BUTTER, LACTOSE, MILKFAT, SOY LECITHIN, SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), SUGAR,CORNSTARCH, LESS THAN 1% - CORN SYRUP, DEXTRIN, COLORING (INCLUDES BLUE 1 LAKE, YELLOW 6, RED 40, YELLOW 5, BLUE 1, RED 40 LAKE, BLUE 2 LAKE, YELLOW 6 LAKE, BLUE 2), GUM ACACIA.

Why so many artificial colors?

Butterfinger:

corn syrup, sugar, ground roasted peanuts, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa, molasses, and less than 1% of dairy product solids, confectioner's corn flakes, nonfat milk, salt, soy lecithin, soybean oil, cornstarch, natural flavors, monoglycerides, TBHQ and citric acid (to preserve freshness), annatto color

Multiple sugar ingredients and what are dairy product solids + trans fat

Whoppers:

SUGAR, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, WHEY, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, PALM KERNEL OIL CORN SYRUP, COCOA, MALTED MILK, SORBITAN TRISTEARATE, LECITHIN, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, TAPIOCA DEXTRIN, CALCIUM CARBONATE

Is this food?

So that's it pick some of my alternatives if possible.

See you next week!

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