What is the Easiest Way to Avoid a Sugar + Grain Combination?

…Avoid Sugar!

Sugar is not a health food. It spikes your blood sugar, negatively affects your metabolism, and has nearly zero nutritional value. Staying away from refined sugar all together is a win-win and does wonders for the body.

Avoidance is easy, with endless keto and whole 30 recipes, as well as so many sugar replacements, from honey to maple syrup.

The most challenging part of staying away from sugar is when it sneaks into processed items. Jams, sauces, vinaigrettes, roasted nuts, breads, crackers, sodas, iced tea, kombucha, commercial wine, etc. It feels like sugar could be in almost anything, and that is true. Read labels, and go to town with homemade goods so you can control sugar avoidance.

Drinking soda with your burger and bun? That is a sugar grain combo. Jam with your toast? Sugar Grain. Thai Sauces with Rice? You guessed it. Sugar Grain.

Should you have a day when sugar is inevitable (your kids birthday cake, or a cocktail out on the town), simply abide by your separation time, eating that sugar item ___ hours away from grains, and you will be just fine.

Foods:

Wheat

Rye

Barley

Oats (and Oat Bran)

Corn / Corn Starch / Corn Oil

Flax

Sesame

Sunflower

Buckwheat

Bulgur

Millet

Malt (and Malt Vinegar)

Distilled Vinegar

Rice (all types)

Sesame Oil

Flaxseed Oil

Quinoa

Kamut

Amaranth

Spelt

Semolina

Seitan

Wheat Germ

Wheat Bran

Additives:

Dextrin

Hydrolyzed Food Starch

Modified Food Starch

Wheat Germ