One of the dietary changes I’ve been trying to make for all of us here at the house is a lessening in the amount of HFCS or high fructose corn syrup that we seem to be constantly consuming. Tonight our supper was HFCS free. We had hot dogs with buns, steak fries fried in natural blend oil from Crisco, Hunt’s 100% Natural Ketchup, Miracle Whip, and Kool-Aid. None of our items that we ate tonight had HFCS in them and none of them tasted badly despite not having the HFCS in them.

I was checking on mayo and Miracle Whip the other day at the grocery store. Most of the brands of mayo or “salad dressing” had HFCS in them. My question is why would mayo or salad dressing need HFCS in it? Miracle Whip & Kraft Mayo are both made without HFCS and taste great. They even have light varieties that taste great and still have no HFCS in them.

Hunt’s has started producing a ketchup without HFCS in it, and I believe that Heinz has also now created a ketchup called Simply Heinz that is also HFCS free. So that is a good thing as well.

I am not completely against HFCS – just in things that it simply doesn’t belong in. There is no need for HFCS in ketchup, mayo, salad dressing, etc. When there isn’t a need for it, it shouldn’t be there. So from now on, we’re reading labels. If we see HFCS in an item, we look for a brand without it. If we can’t find out, we decide if it’s an item we could possibly make for ourselves, if it is, we will. It’s time to remove some of the crap from our diets and we’re starting with HFCS.

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