avoid high fructose corn syrup

so it’s easier to avoid HFS. I just eat so much less processed food, and rarely eat out.
Avoiding all kinds of sugar is extremely hard as well, especially when looking in the canned foods section. But we persevere.

Traveling made eating very difficult – I couldn’t really do much about the bulk of the food eaten out, except try to choose healthy main dishes. But the condiments were almost entirely flush with High Fructose Corn Syrup. Alas.
Ironically enough, only the gourmet mustard (of which I’m not a fan generally) was HFCS-free. D’oh!

I spent my last trip to the grocery store grumbling under my breath and mouthing a lot of curse words. Argh! My entire trip to the frozen food section was stymied by the dread high fructose corn syrup. I was so incredibly frustrated to find it in seemingly-random products ranging from frozen pizza to “natural” fruit juice.
Must learn to cook.

I had a terrible pain under my ribs for the last few days, which my acupuncturist explained was hypochondriac pain (hypo=under, chondriac=ribs) – fun with etymology!
Anyway, we speculate that the high fructose corn syrup (and/or trans fats) in the office hot chocolate that I started sucking down the moment I had steady work again is the culprit.
So, no more of the office-issued crap, and I have to be a real stickler for checking my labels from now on.