Started today 4/20

[audream]

Started Whole 30 today. Even got through easter brunch without messing up. 

 

One question, was going to buy these: http://www.amazon.com/Trader-Joes-Roasted-Coconut-Chips/dp/B009D5XU3C

 

but it says they are lightly sweetened and have 2g of sugar for 1/2 the bag. Should I stay away? Trying to figure out how strict I need to be. 

 

[Tom Denham]

No added sugar at all okay. Basically, if it ain't strict, it ain't a Whole30.

[melbournegirl]

It's worth being strict.... Once you know you have broken one rule, it often leads to another..ie the dried fruit that has some sugar added, the canned beetroot with some sugar, coconut yoghurt with cane juice etc and you'll miss knowing whether it ended up having an impact etc

[AmyS]

I couldn't see an ingredients list on the image, but the product information on the front lists sugar as an added ingredient.  That's what makes it out for Whole30.  You can find compliant coconut flakes, just not these.

 

Also, be prepared to find sugar in e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.  It's absolutely shocking when you start looking at what has added sugar.  (While you're at it, look for added soy, which is in most things that have sugar illogically added and in some other things like WATER-packed tuna.)

 

Prepare to be enlightened about why so many of us in this country are completely addicted to sugar.  It's. in. everything.

 

I remember when I did my first Whole30 and about halfway through it I realized that 90% of what was sold in my local grocery store did not, in fact, qualify as food under Whole30 rules.  Very, very eye-opening.