• maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Try removing sugar from your diet, like sucrose sugar. It is frighteningly hard unless you’re cooking everything you eat yourself.

    I’ve had times where I start liking something a lot which I normally wouldn’t suspect of having lots of sugar to realise “wait a minute, I like this because they’ve added lots of sugar don’t I!?” … and I check and yea there’s way too much.

    It’s a problem.

    • JockJam DoorSlam@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yes, I’ve been cutting out sugar (or trying to at least) and I’m amazed at how many products include it that you wouldn’t expect to have it. I do love to cook so I do a lot of things from scratch, but somethings are just too cost prohibitive to make regularly/sometimes we just get too busy and need some premade elements for a dish, etc. and sugar is just overloaded into products it isn’t even necessary in. It’s so frustrating.

      • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I found frozen veggies and a cheap protein like ground beef I can buy in bulk is quite affordable. Also now that eggs have gone down we always have a lot of that. Not having kids though we can afford shrimp and steak and pork etc.