Subway, You Scare Us

Today things were a little crazy. We got back late last night and felt somewhat destroyed after watching the blazers get a butt kicking. We went straight to bed without cleaning the kitchen. We also have not been grocery shopping in a while. This morning neither one of us felt like battling the mess and scavenging a lunch. I think the fact that we have an "easy" rule this week did not help the lack of motivation. For lunch/dinner I picked up a noodle salad from Trader Joe's. I carefully read the list of ingredients before I decided on this meal item. Safe. Ryan decided to get a Subway sandwich. No, he did not follow our previous reader's advice who stated she worked at Subway and it is not food (shame on him). BUT, to his credit, he asked the sandwich master if there was high-fructose corn syrup in the bread and was informed "no," so he thought he was in the clear. I was skeptical. I googled "Subway High-fructose corn syrup" and sure enough an article about Jillian Michaels (dated March 10, 2010) stated that the Biggest Loser training star is pissed that Subway continues to use high-fructose corn syrup. Uh-oh. I then went to the Subway website and clicked on their ingredient link. Right to the source. And this is when we became scared. A long long long list of ingredients for their bread (after making homemade bread for the last three weeks I can assure everyone that amazing bread can be made with less than five ingredients). And with this long long long list high-fructose corn syrup is the THIRD ingredient. We were shocked to realize the only bread product that did not contain this dreaded ingredient was their White Bread! WHAT!?!?! The already unhealthy bread just sounded a little healthier. How counterintuitive is that? We also found many of their other products including meats, cookies, and sauces contain the forbidden ingredient. Subway eaters beware! Subway is some scary food-like substance. We shall abstain.