Entry September 11, 2004, Saturday

I feel pretty good today. Appetite is good. Energy is fair. Strength is improving. Of course all that will disappear next week. I can't wait to get the last cycle of chemo over with.

Starting to get the kitchen in line with the new eating plan. Last night we visited Trader Joe's in Media for the first time. We were surprised at how much of the food they sell there is already prepared. It's not a grocery store, but more of a specialty gourmet shop. The food there is good stuff, and mostly well priced. I'd go back, if only to buy more Orangina (that stuff is so hard to find).

We're cleaning out our pantry getting rid of anything that is overly processed and full of bad ingredients. Bad, evil ingredients include:

• Sugar (white sugar, high
  fructose corn syrup, sucrose, etc)


• MSG


• Partially Hydrogenated Oils


• Animal fats


• Artificial food dyes and
  colorings


• Cottonseed oil


• White rice


• White flour


• Raisins (more about raisins
  another day)


• And any other chemical additives
  that we can't pronounce.

Pasta, although a processed food, is still good because of simple, unadulterated ingredients. (Thank You!!!!!!!!)
Most jarred pasta sauces are not good because of all the crap they throw in there, including sugar and hydrogentated oils.

You'd be shocked at the variety of products in your home that contain sugar. Most of them honestly don't need sugar, and if you were making them from scratch you wouldn't even use sugar.
A big surprise was tortilla shells. Very simple bread, they can be made using good ingredients, however, most of the big-name brands contain sugar!

Oh well, I'll rant more about our pantry later.
Anyone want some free food? Come on over.