Challenge effects: Less Sugar

Another positive effect of not eating out and cooking at home is that I can control my sugar content. One thing that can creep up in your diet in many ways is sugar. Because sugar comes in numerous forms from Ace-K to honey to maltodextrin, even if you think you aren’t consuming it, you might be. What can you do about it? Well, if you make the food at home, you will know how much sugar you are consuming and it won’t just creep in.

Simply remember if you didn’t cook it, it likely is in your food. Think about this, you cook at home, you know what all the ingredients you used are, what was cooked before, and how it was cooked. When you buy something, you know it has certain ingredients because it’s on the label or on the menu but you don’t know how it was cooked or what was cooked before so you might be getting hidden ingredients in your product. My advice is to plan your grocery trip with a shopping list and you’ll likely be able to avoid impulse buying and get items that you are likely to use thus avoiding spoilage as well as avoiding high sugar items.

Stay well!