Grocery Shopping Take 2

This was my second grocery shopping trip (entirely for myself) that I was mindful of looking out for HFCS and honey (which apparently is terrible for me, which I learned the hard way with granola).

Exciting things:

• Pepsi Throwback (and Mtn Dew & Sierra Mist Natural) are made with sugar!
• Boylan Root Beer is made with cane sugar! (So is Faygo in the bottles.)
• Kraft has some cheeses (mostly the block ones) that have 0g of lactose! (I'm assuming it has a minuscule amount of lactose, but not enough to make me sick.) Ones I've bought: pepperjack, cheddar, and shredded Mexican 4-cheese. hooray for cheese!

Not-so-exciting things:

• Most cereals I wanted to buy have honey in them. UGH!
• Most wheat breads I looked at had HFCS or honey in them! Ditto hamburger buns. I ended up buying fancypants Meijer Organics bread that's like 1/4 the size of a normal loaf.
• A lot of lunch meat has honey in it. Even the non-honey-ham ham. :(
• Boca burgers except the vegan ones have cheese. :(

Coasta Costa Rica

I went to a warm place for spring break this year, after having spent my last two spring breaks in the bitter cold of the lovely city of Chicago.

Costa Rica, like many countries not-the-US, doesn't use HFCS in EVERYTHING. Soda? Con azúcar! Damn you IOWA and your corn subsidies!

End result? A week of basically no tummy problems. (Occasional nausea possibly from too much boozing or drinking foreign water.) Costa Rica FTW. (The 80-degree weather, beaches, and ziplining in the rainforest helped, too.)