Quick grocery shopping

[colormist]

Usually I'm pretty tedious with my grocery shopping and reread the labels I've already read a 1,000 times before, but I realized as I got to the checkout that I had forgotten cream of mushroom soup. I told my husband to go ahead and check out and I'd run and grab the soup.

I grab the very last can on the shelf, forgo reading the label, and manage to get back to the checkout right as my husband is ready to pay.

Last night I went to make mushroom casserole. I didn't check the label again. Made a huge portion of it. (Leftovers!) Gave myself a huge bowl full of the casserole. Ate one bite. Set down the bowl. Picked up the can. Read the label. Sugar. Threw out everything. Such a waste of money. My husband has gluten intolerance, so he wouldn't touch it even if he was starving.

I had Rold Gold Cheddar Pretzels for dinner instead (not healthy, but very delicious and the only Rold Gold pretzels that seem to be fructose-free). Around midnight I was reading and my blood sugar dropped very quickly. I ran out into the kitchen, ate olives, sweettarts, tortilla chips, and a glass of milk before forcing myself to stop. I was still ravenous, but I'm really trying to reign in my low blood sugar binge habits (not easy).

The cream of mushroom soup was an off brand (which was typically safe), but I happened to grab a can that was misplaced. It was the low-sodium, low-fat soup--which they tend to add sugar to make it taste less gross. It still tasted really gross--something like glue. It didn't taste sweet at all.

[charlie]

Oh dear, poor you, that sounds like something out of a sitcom! Just goes to prove how important to read the label every time. I've been caught out when they have suddenly changed the recipe too, or the packaging which they do regularly here to make you think it is a new product.

They have also been highlighting more here how bad these supposedly healthier, lighter products are, with added sugar surely that is just as harmful as more salt or fat.

there is a saying here in Britain "Do in haste, repent at leisure" sounds like you fell foul of it. LOL

[colormist]

It was amusing because as I was grabbing the can I was thinking "I REALLY should be reading the label..."

I have really bad luck.

And ditto on the supposedly-healthier foods not being healthy at all.

[Tammy]

A pack of hot dogs is what got me one time.
Only it takes Regina 2 or 3 days to have a reaction. That makes it extremely "fun" to try and track down what she ate a few days ago!
I have enough trouble remembering this morning!

[kim55]

Yikes! I've had similar things happen to me. The last thing that got me was a package of naan (Indian flatbread), which is always OK when I order it in a restaurant, but the stuff sold at Walmart has sugar. I was sure I checked the ingredients the last time I bought it and didn't see sugar listed, but when I got it home I checked it again, and the sugar was there. A BIG disappointment.

[kim55]

I am OK with Campbell's mushroom soup but I think I remember that the store brand (Kroger) had sugar, or at least there is some reason I don't buy it.

My husband is on medication for cholesterol, and for a while when he was doing the grocery shopping (we take turns), he was buying low-fat versions of things like Bisquick, etc. So then I'd take one bite of something that had always been safe, and it wasn't safe any more. After a while he gave up on the low-fat stuff.