A Lack of Food: Chapter Two.

The diet began on July 25; it has been 19 days since then.

If there is one thing I have learned over the course of these days, it is this: there is sugar in everything.

I went grocery shopping with my father--he’s on a diet similar to mine--and found that I really couldn’t eat anything else other than organic vegetables and freshly downed beast. My dad and I went to a more organic/healthy-centric grocery store and were unable to find a single can of tomato soup w/o sugar. In fact, the only can of soup that we were allowed to consume was titled, ‘Pea and Smoked Ham’, and even then, it had some kind of gluton in it, which we are not allowed on this diet.

You can forget ANY kind of juice too. Even Happy Planet contains some form of sugar; they probably disguised it with a term like “Cane Juice”; guess which cane they are referring to. There are many juices that advertise “NO SUGAR ADDED”, of course if you read the ingredients you will see that they use some kind of “concentrate” to create the incredibly sweet flavour. It’s such a sad state of affairs...

I have, however, found a couple saviors amongst all these treacherous foods:

1) The Peanut Butter Spoon: This is a coveted treat held by my family over many years, and it turns out that the kind of peanut butter I prefer has the following ingredients: Peanuts, Salt. Notice the lack of quadroHydrogenUctoseAted CarboFatenathos? That’s right; I am completely allowed to eat this.

2) Cheddar/Mozza Flavoured Loaf: I opted in for the No-Dairy diet alongside my No-Simple-Sugars diet and so had to say goodbye to the lifeblood of North American cuisine: cheese. However, the soybean has pretty much covered this base, offering me, and others, cheese-flavoured soy “loafs”. They taste pretty good, feel the same as regular cheese, and can even be grated, but the best way to hide the absence-of-cow-influence is to melt it.

I should also state that I’m not feeling that much better; I’m still tired.