Small ways to cut sugar from your diet

Guess what! Sugar is not only consumed in chocolate and ice cream! True story. It is hidden in the little things we eat every day too. Reading labels is the best way to find out if what you are eating has sugar in it and if it does how much is in there.

Here is a short list of foods that contain sugar, how much is in there and what you can eat instead:

• Ketchup has 3 Grams per Tablespoon / Mustard has ZERO
• Tomato soup has 8 Grams per cup / Chicken noodle soup should not have ANY
• Honey mustard salad dressing has 5 Grams in 2 Tablespoons / Ranch has about 1 Gram
• 1 Chocolate chip muffin has a whopping 43 Grams / 1 Chocolate glazed donut has 16 Grams
• 1 Mocha latte has 18 Grams / 1 regular latte has ZERO
• These numbers were taken from an article in Eating Well Magazine.

On a side note:
The liquid flavor additives you may have added to your morning coffee drinks do contain sugar. They do offer "light" options, and by choosing those you are then adding "fake sugar" into your body, which is actually worse for us than the real thing. If you must choose between sugar or an unnatural sugar alternative, choose sugar...unless of course you have been instructed by your Doctor to choose otherwise