Check The Bulk Food Aisle

April 25, 2008 ↓ Comments (4)

If you’re lucky enough to have a bulk food aisle at your local supermarket, check it out. I quite enjoy me some pay-by-the-pound cashews, peanuts, and even a few of the trail mixes.

But be careful! Lots of that stuff is sweetened with organic cane juice which is simply sugar. It will kick your butt!

The first time I saw a product sweetened with organic cane juice was in a health food store. It was Gorilla Munch cereal. I was so happy thinking I had found a natural alternative to sweets. I went home and ate the whole box. An hour later I crashed!

So, my advice for the bulk aisle is to stay unsweet. Try unsweetened carob chips instead of chocolate chips. Beware of grain sweetened stuff, it still packs a punch for anyone with sugar sensitivities.

Let us know if you find something good.

Comments · Check The Bulk Food Aisle

LoopDetector
Apr 29, 2008

I found some tasty fruit sweetened cranberries at my natural foods store (New Seasons) in the bulk aisle. They aren’t as affordable as the ones you can buy from Trader Joes, but they don’t have cane sugar in them and they are really tasty in fruit sweetened oatmeal cookies.

Natalie- recovering sugar JUNKIE
Jun 12, 2008

I found this awesome alternative to ice cream.
I am allergic to wheat and dairy, which makes choosing healthy food easy.
I still am a sweets-junkie though, and there are plenty of wheat-free sugar snacks (Like Gorilla Munch cereal)

There’s this soft serve, fruit sweetened frozen dessert, found at my local dairy queen.
It’s called: Wow Cow!
Ingredients include:

Water, Crystillne Fructose (Real fruit Fructose), Cultured Yogurt Solids, Guar Seed Gum, and dutch process cocoa.

There are 11g of sugar in 1/2 cup, but it’s fruit sugar, not high fructose corn syrup, or white refined sugar.
This stuff is low lactose, and delicious!
With only 50 calories in half a cup.
There’s over 300 calories in a lot of Ben and Jerry’s ice creams.
Wow Cow really is amazing stuff!!!!

I lost about 20 pounds, when I combined the forces of wow cow, with a healthy diet of mostly fruit and veggies.
(I will eat egg beater or brown rice bread/dairy free butter on occasion)

Enjoy! : )

nikki
Jun 08, 2011

How much is dried cereal in the bulk aisle usually? per 100 grams.

DavidVanadia
Jun 08, 2011

I don’t know off hand. I suppose it depends on the kind you get and where you get it.