Just Say NO to Bread on Drugs!

So, I stole the title of this post from Dave's Killer Bread logo, but it all fits perfectly together....Picture this: Ryan and I running
around the grocery store examining and critiquing food labels before placing anything in our basically-empty shopping cart. Frequently, making a fuss or laughing about what we saw on the ingredients list. Less frequently, high-fiving one another and jumping for joy. Other shoppers glaring at us and completely confused. This would sum up our first shopping trip experience following Rule #1.

Overall, I must say this experience was a success. We spent $25, which says a lot if you know how much we normally spend during a single grocery shopping trip (probably double that at least). I think spending less is attributed to not being allowed to buy the products we have grown accustomed to purchasing. Yes, the soda aisle did temp us with their real cane sugar glass bottle cream sodas. And the beer and wine aisle we decided to come back to later this week after some research takes place (i.e. does some beer have flavor additives to get that certain taste? is sulfate-free wine okay?). We are not even going to talk about what the candy aisle did to me....too painful, must repress. Often, when we couldn't buy something, we decided to make it from scratch, to ensure that it would be "food." For example, bread was a problem area for us. Dave's Killer Bread looked to be the best, but it had one tiny ingredient we were unsure of (wheat gluten?), so we stayed away. Instead, we bought ingredients to make our own bread! Finding all natural yeast was a bit of a challenge, but when we found it, we were high-fiving one another in the aisle. Go team Orwick! We also found yogurt we could eat--Nancy's (but only certain flavors!). Another high-five! We are dorks. The strangest ingredient we saw in all of our label reading (yes, we are well on our way to becoming label reading experts by the way) had to be "enriched noodle product." Noodle product, who would ever eat that? We also learned that unsalted butter is a no-no (it includes some mysterious "natural flavors") but salted butter is golden!

Our goal is to start taking more pictures to post to this blog because everyone likes visuals. For example, Ryan found a frozen beef ribeye steak that looked perfectly square. If it weren't for the packaging it could have easily been mistaken for construction material. We tried taking pictures during this shopping trip but we had some technical issues. Pictures to come! Also, please send good thoughts to get me through Cupcakes Jones Day at my internship......cupcake jones is not food and I will stay away (my mantra).

Also, our homemade bread is currently baking and our house is smelling amazing! :)