ditto on the reading-ingredients thing, but when you're new to this you don't always grasp this right away. Like, at first, when I heard someone say, "FF saltines are safe [smiley here]" I thought, hey, it says "safe" AND it has a smiley, this means I can go out and buy them. I didn't realize that I had to go out, make sure they didn't have HFCS, and THEN buy them. (Most FF saltines have HFCS, which really irritates me, because I hate paying $2.19 for a lousy box of saltines when the cheap kind are $.59.) I haven't looked at that list in awhile, but I seem to recall a lot of the items on that list are items that are frequently not safe (i.e. most angel food cake mixes containing dairy). But, doesn't the list also have a disclaimer to the effect of making sure you double-check the ingredients? Or is it the snack food list I'm thinking of?
So, after 16 months of doing this, I do have a tendency to sort of think someone's an idiot for complaining about the nonfat dry milk in the angel food cake mix she bought thinking it was "supposed to be safe", because it's easy to forget that this diet isn't something you immediately grasp 100% on day one. You don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure it out, no, but it's a lot to take in all at once. I did a lot of REALLY dumb stuff the first week or two, and I bet everyone else did, too. And I am a reasonably intelligent person who knows all about the standard encoding of a T1. I didn't inflict my dumbness upon anyone on the boards because I have enough sense to lurk for awhile before posting, but at the same time, I feel bad when someone new posts a question and gets a response like "Do a search. Aren't you taking a SFS?" I mean, we were all new and dumb at one point. I just wish we could all be a little nicer.
Whoa. Sorry. That totally turned into an after-school special response. Back to your regularly scheduled program ...
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