Some people suggest that we are addicted to the foods pushed upon us as a society, such as grains/wheat, corn, sugars, and whatnot. I'd hyperlink stuff to those words if I were a highly motivated blogger, but oh well. In any event, I think it's hard to say whether or not someone is truly addicted or dependent on something like corn...but by golly I think I might be close to it when it comes to high fructose corn syrup.
Today Lisa and I were really wanting something sweet. Just...anything. Sweet. We've been chomping down on things like fruit and whatnot, and the maple cream has been absolutely delicious, but we've been trying to save that. So we went to the store and found this cool organic section (I never fathomed that I would be excited to see an organic section) and bought lots of expensive organic stuff. We had to have something sweet that somehow fit within the boundaries of the paleo plan.
So we went home and made pumpkin muffins and chocolate chip cookies. I'm sure Lisa will provide the recipes for the stuff and explain how it fits within the rules of the plan. Anyway, we made the stuff and it was...okay. The pumpkin muffins were about 100x better when the maple cream was spread on it (akin to butter on a regular muffin). The chocolate chip cookies were...dry. And dark. We had to use unsweetened chocolate, which is baker's chocolate, which tastes like a bitter brick of disappointment unless you sweeten it with something. So Lisa melted the chocolate down and added some honey to it which helped a lot. But the cookies are still nothing like regular chocolate chip cookies. It took me a while to finish my cookie, which was palatable...but in the time it took me to eat that one, I could have eaten around 5 regular chocolate chip cookies.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that we are looking for something that simply didn't exist in the paleo world, literally, which was high fructose corn syrup. That sugary substance is so delicious and so ubiquitous that perhaps I am addicted to it. And I had to have it. Or just something sweet. Because I actually was satisfied after I had the muffin and cookie...just not satisfied in the same way as a regular muffin or cookie. And truly HFCS did not exist more than 100 years ago (I think), which means we may never enjoy the same quantities or qualities of sweetness that we had on a daily basis before engaging in this plan. Dealing with the tempting whisper of sweetness might be the greatest challenge for this month. But I guess that sounds pretty obvious when I type it out like that.
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