Grocery Shopping

I was bored this morning, so I decided to go do some grocery shopping with my mom. Typically my parents do all the food shopping and cooking. In return, I pay all the other bills for the house, including property tax and all the utilities. Not sure if that is fair; my payments are about $1,200/month, mostly for property tax.

Before going to the market, we stopped by the Santa Ana Raising Canes for a quick lunch. I only got the chicken fingers so to avoid extra carbs from the fries and Texas toast. I was looking forward to this since it has been several months since I ate there, but it was very disappointing. There was actually a line and a good 10 minute wait for the chicken fingers. Because of the delay, I was expecting fresh (hot) chicken finger, but they were just kinda warm and a bit soggy. Next time, I am going back to the Tustin branch .

The next disappointment was at Albertsons. We went to a different store that was on the way home. This store was bigger than the one closest to our house, so I was expecting them to have more stock. The most important item to get was the Pepsi Zero Sugar Mango. Both Pepsi and Coca Cola 12 packs were 3/$10.99. However, there was only regular Pepsi Zero Sugar on the shelf. I did see regular Pepsi with Mango, but that will definitely spike my blood sugar. Anyway, long story short, I ended up getting some Diet Coke, and a 12 pack of Diet Dr. Pepper. I know Dr. Pepper is the go to beverage for a lot of people, but I was never really into it. Ever since picking up diet soda again for the phosphorus, I have been looking for more variety of flavors so I thought I would give it a try.

In total, I spent about $50 today since I also got some more frozen entrées and other stuff. I also found some no sugar ice cream from Breyers. There must have been over a hundred types of ice cream in the freezer aisle, but this the only diabetic ice cream I could find. I thought there were a lot of diabetics in the US. Is there no demand for the special ice cream, or are people just eating regular full-sugar ice cream?

Nutritional information for the flavor I bought: vanilla chocolate strawberry. The ice cream is sweeting using sucralose, which is what is in Splenda. The important numbers are: 17 g of carbs, 0 g of added sugar (8 g of sugar alcohol), and 150 mg of potassium. Their regular vanilla chocolate strawberry ice cream has 20 g of carbs, 15 g of added sugar, and 170 mg of potassium. There is also twice the amount of fats and cholesterol. Hopefully it tastes ok.