Since I am more inactive than ever with my boot I try to eat healthy. I also am trying to eat less. I try to keep calorie rich snacks out of the house except for company. Hubby now does most of the shopping and came across these chips at the market and knowing the I like sweet potatoes thought I would like these. I did not intentionally cut off the top word on the bag, but I think it was something about how healthy food "Should Taste Good." The tiny print in the very middle is what should have been read more closely. It says "All Natural Tortilla Chips." Unlike 99% of America, I am not a big fan of tortilla chips unless they are those light ones freshly made at the Mexican restaurant. I can eat a few of the bagged tortilla chips but not with much enthusiasm. These sweet potato chips didn't remotely taste like sweet potatoes. They were not light like chips but hearty and thick. I turned over the bag and read the ingredients.
Sweet potatoes are the third ingredient after corn and fat. I also find the euphemism of "Evaporated Cane Juice" just a little insulting! I hate when companies do this!
Sweet potatoes are the third ingredient after corn and fat. I also find the euphemism of "Evaporated Cane Juice" just a little insulting! I hate when companies do this!
I hate that too...you get all excited about a great flavor and then discovered it is chemically enhanced and not in a good way....
ReplyDeleteI often look at the snacks labeled healthier. Usually they have the same calories as the unhealthy ones and don't taste as good. Overall I don't do them often but when I do, I buy whatever sounds most delicious to savor until the next time I just can't resist a salty treat.
ReplyDeleteI am like Rain - sometimes I look at labels - but eat chips so seldom that I go for what taste the best to me.
ReplyDeleteMy weakness is ice cream, even though I eat yogurt - ice cream is my favorite - like daily :)
Fortunate that so far on this journey and now past middle 70's I can eat my ice cream, chips and candy and not gain weight.
Somehow the thought of the taste of corn and sweet potatoes together doesn't sound good at all. I like both but not in the same bite. I've seen them in the store but didn't stop to read the ingredients. Now I know not to try them.
ReplyDeleteI love potato chips. I am trying to love apples and oranges more. Occasionally I will buy a small bag as a treat - but would never buy a big bag of any kind of chips bacause I really don't have the self-discipline. Have you made Kale chips? Very very easy -oven baked and you get to control the oil and salt. They are really good! Really.Good.
ReplyDeleteGrrrrrrrr. That pisses me off no end. It's like the spaghetti sauces "flavored" with meat, which is one of my particular peeves. Either it's meat sauce or it isn't. Just because you dipped a pork chop into it at some point, you don't get to cal it meat sauce.
ReplyDeleteI don't bring any home, no self control,eat'em up at once. Reading the ingredients usually cures my desire to purchase. Discouraging too, is the small amount of calories listed on items, only to find its for one cookie, three chips, or 1/3 of a can of soup.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I gained weight while on vacation but I also know I needed the extra calories to pull it all off. I'm very fussy about my chips and only like two kinds, the first of which I could not find while traveling: Utz dark russet and Lundberg Rice Chips Sea Salt.
ReplyDeleteIf I can't read the small print of ingredients in the grocery store, I can at least see the amount. If there are more than, say two or three, it's suspect.
Corn seems to be in everything (crops are controlled and managed by the government) and they come up with very creative ways to hide the ingredient sugar.
ReplyDeleteReading labels is quite an education... it's a wonder we've survived this long!
ReplyDeleteOh my!! The label says it all!! Sucks
ReplyDeleteHugs
SueAnn
PS I hate these new word verification thingys...just saying!!
If it is salty and goes "crunch" I can eat it. And speaking of sweet potatoes, I ordered a baked one with my Valentine's meal and the waitress asked if I wanted cinnamon and brown sugar on it and I said no, butter and sour cream. I thought she was going to have a stroke. Is that really strange?
ReplyDeleteThey think you can't figure it out. LOL Don't be hard on your husband; he's thinking of you.
ReplyDeleteOh, NO....you have complected the word thingy. I can always get the first one, but the second one invariably evades me. Second try.....3rd try.....
Hi There, YES---reading the labels is so important. BUT--we don't take the time to do it as much as we should.
ReplyDeleteI'm working hard at eating healthy too --and trying to keep getting this excess weight off... Grrrrrrrr...
Have a great Friday.
Hugs,
Betsy
We had a dinner party last night. Guess who is having to finish the leftover nibbles that went with pre-dinner drinks.
ReplyDeleteI'd never dream of buying the stuff at any other time.
(But I do admit to enjoying these special treats one in a blue moon)
Ah, but I have a place ready. :)
ReplyDeleteI have always hated potatoe chips. They are so greasy and taste nasty. I heard this brand of Sweet Potatoe chips were very good and I thought they were amazing. No greasy taste and so sweet they are like dessert.
ReplyDeleteBut then I read the ingredients and DONE! No way could I pretend they were anything but bad for me. But they tasted sooooooo good.
I hate "Cherry" Juice with grape n apple juice listed ahead of it...
ReplyDeleteI need cherries for anti-inflamitory properties- fake stuff doesn't help at all!
Look at the bright side- They camoflagued the sugar ingredient, but it didn't conatain any High Fructose Corn Syrup! Yay!