It was a great experience that took us to visit family in Utah, Iowa, Las Vegas and my wife and I also took a quick 5 day trip to New York. We certainly enjoyed our time meeting family over there and spending time with them.
However the hardest thing we found throughout the trip was the food! Not that there was a shortage of food by any stretch of the imagination - in fact quite the opposite - there was too much food! It was really difficult to find good REAL foods (REAL as in not something processed that comes in a packet or a box) that we could eat (apart from when we were eating home cooked meals with the family of course).
It's like we were surrounded by all manner of wheat based products, fast foods, processed foods and of course soda. Kind of have a greater appreciation now for what all the other State-side health bloggers discuss in the various internet forums. I think this was no more evident than in the kids we saw while traveling around - when we were out and about we hardly saw a kid that didn't have some kind of soda, fast food, or candy in their hands!
It also has opened my eyes even more as to why these big companies have such huge success promoting these products and the power they have. On one of the flights we saw this on the napkins they give you when they offer you a drink of water or diet coke.... which supports heart health...
Even more unbelievable was that I saw so many people drinking diet coke or something similar - ALL the time - it was constantly having some form of soda drink with them. It was like soda was one of the essential items that go into the handbag when you leave the house!
Anyway, will blog more about the foods and sights and sounds of our trip next time - well the parts of it that have something to do with health and fitness anyway lol...
The "milk" they bought us for our breakfast one morning was called "non-dairy product" we took a photo of it for you, couldn't even pronounce the ingredients.
ReplyDeleteYeh cool Candice - you will have to send the pic of the 'milk' when you find it. Nothing is REAL over there lol
DeleteI can't handle everything being sweet - even bread. And no savoury spreads!
ReplyDeleteNot a fan of fizzy either. Never get it for the boys. We survive on water and milk most of the time - although my Mum is constantly giving us large bottles of juice and Ribena. But I love, love, love Bundy's sparkling pink grapefruit drink - there's grapefruit in there. Somewhere....right? :)
Good for you Ana - yeh keep the kids off the fizzy for sure! Will prevent so much sickness and disease later in life that's for sure - we do the same with our kids. They have it now and again when nana takes them to McDs or something like that but it's certainly the exception and not the rule lol. Yeh, I'm sure there is some grapefruit in there somewhere - or at least the flavour number that equates to grapefruit lol...
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