DAY 3: MACHINE GUNS AND ANGRY DUCKS

Day 3 and I'm still going strong - food and fart wise. Farts that resemble machine guns firing and angry ducks quacking.

Food wise, I'm still doing pretty well; there have been moments when I REALLY craved to have a small cookie alongside my coffee. Instead, I'm sitting here with a coffee and a Nakd bar. I swear I'm not being sponsored by Nakd - it's just, I'm still desperately trying to find sweets and snacks that don't have any added sugar. Obviously dried fruit and nuts have offered some relief but I'm still keen to try other products that do not have any added sugar and/or artificial sweeteners. In the meantime, I think the Cocoa Mint and Apple Pie flavours are my favourite.

Speaking of which, tonight I was so desperate for sugar free mayonnaise, that I ended up having to make my own. Every mayonnaise I picked up in Waitrose tonight had added sugar to it. I thought Waitrose being Waitrose (a grocery store that likes to think of itself as "posh"), would have some sort of healthy homemade-type mayonnaise without sugar. Not so. So, instead, I had to make my own and seriously, WHY HAVEN'T I DONE THIS BEFORE? Maybe it's because of the two cups of oil that you have to add to make mayonnaise, I'm not sure (*gulp*). Nevertheless, I wanted sugar-free mayonnaise so I decided to make my own and make it to my own tastes. Needless to say, it was super garlic-y. 

I also added fresh thyme, whole grain mustard and white wine vinegar. Not only is it sugar-free but SO MUCH BETTER than store-bought stuff. 

Anyway, before dinner I traipsed to Waitrose in an effort to try and stock up on sugar-free food. It actually proved a lot more difficult than I thought. Perhaps it's my local Waitrose, here in Glasgow, but it seemed somewhat limited in selection; I couldn't even find almond butter ("Almond butter", I hear you cry? YES, BUTTER FROM THE ALMONDS).  Then again, perhaps it's from years of living in Toronto - where people are way more obnoxious about "healthy living" than I am - but I couldn't help but feel a wee bit let down. Before moving to Glasgow, I couldn't throw a tempeh slice without hitting a health food store in Toronto. In Glasgow? Not so much; we're more chip shop than health food grocery stores. 

Nevertheless, a Whole Foods (yes, an actual branch!) opened up almost a year ago on the Southside of Glasgow, that my boyfriend and I are going to scope out, in the hopes that it has more options. Sadly, it's a wee bit out of the way - like most of the Southside of Glasgow (and I'm allowed to say that because I used to live there), but since I recently joined City Car Club, we'll drive there, like the way the piss poor city planners intended. 

I hope to experiment with more sugar-free cooking/ baking on the weekend. My main meals aren't so much of a challenge, to be honest, because I've always been fairly healthy in that regard (bar, of course, my dependency on mayonnaise). It's actually just dessert and sugar-y type snacks I am struggling with. Perhaps it's just a matter of weaning myself off sugar and sugar-y crap for good but to be honest, what sort of life is that?! I NEED SOME SORT OF SWEETS/ REWARD! And thus, Nakd bars have been a saviour. 

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Boyfriend made breakfast for me this morning; I dictated that I wanted oatmeal with a mashed banana, 100% cocoa, coconut and coconut oil. Boyfriend thought it was too bland (he wanted cinnamon rather than cocoa) but I stand firm: cocoa in oatmeal is super chocolaty tasting - minus the sugar. 

COFFEE with evaporated milk 

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Oh, man. I ate a lot today. Here goes:

Covent Garden Leek and Potato Soup (I had to pick up three different soups before I found one without any added sugar)

Raw broccoli (pure addicted to this stuff - perhaps the culprit behind my angry farts?)

Small packet of cashews

Melon, mango, and pineapple slices

small plain yogurt

Nakd cashew cookie bar

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Nakd apple pie bar

Quinoa (another favourite of mine) with puy lentils

Steamed broccoli and carrots, drizzled with homemade mayonnaise

Nakd Cocoa mint bar

COFFEE with evaporated milk