Wow. Hard to believe it's Friday already. We have a welcome cool down in temps and it looks like it's going to be perfect biking weather after dinner!
I'm off in a few minutes to get my blood work done (from my April physical). I was supposed to do this a couple of weeks ago, but forgot about fasting until it was too late. Think I'll take along some strawberries to enjoy in the car, on the way home.
A quick tour of the garden this morning yielded one additional gardenia (with a couple of full buds waiting in the wings) and one of my tomatoes is turning light yellow. I can almost see the squirrels and birds circling the bush, waiting for what they think is
their crop to ripen! Also my little lace cap hydrangea is blooming. It had a hard winter, so I'm happy to see it growing well. I'll take pix later.
I heard recently that Americans eat 135 pounds of sugar per year. I wanted to check that statistic, because it seemed unbelievable. Don't believe it. Americans actually eat
156 pounds of sugar per year! That's in all forms. Twenty-nine pounds of that total is eaten in it's crystal form. 33% of it comes from sugar-filled sodas. Read about it
here. I cut way back on sugar a few years ago. I don't buy the 5 pound bag of sugar anymore. The 2 pound bag lasts us for several months. (Except when I made 9 batches of brownies around the time of my Dad's funeral!) I do have a "sweet tooth." I like the taste of sweet, but adding fruit usually satisfies that need.
How about you? How do you keep your sweet tooth satisfied without consuming 156 pounds of sugar each year?
