The processed foods seem to always contain it but cooking from scratch means you can make sure you aren't getting any of that.

I believe it will be cheaper as well?

Good luck!

Then you will know precisely what is in the food you eat. Buy a Food Saver and vacuum seal and/or freeze what you yourself bake/cook.

I don't really agree with your assessment on HFCS, though I don't make a habit of consuming it.

Cook your own turkey - or if it's sausage, ask your butcher to grind some for you and make your own sausage; make your own muffins (they're pretty easy to make). In the end it will be cheaper and tastier than the prepackaged stuff.

Precook the sausage patties and assemble the sandwiches. Wrap them individually and freeze. They keep very well and you can microwave them just like the kind you buy. I used to make breakfast sandwiches for my kid all the time - once he hit his teens it was nice to have something in the freezer he could grab when he overslept on a school day.

Pick two.

Only the super expensive organic packaged stuff is HFCS free. Almost everything now, from flax seed, whole wheat bread to granola bars to yogurt to marinades to lunch meat, has some HFCS in it.

Best bet? stay away from anything 'packaged'. Everything from scratch is normally how I cook. I'm also a compulsive label reader when I shop.

Bake a potato, boil a couple eggs, eat fruit and veggies.

We didn't used to have all these convenience foods and we got along just fine. Nearly everything on the market will have HFCS. Even potato chips! Why?

I'm also trying to avoid wheat, as they are saying that the newer version causes lots of problems, including weight gain. So, the medical world tells you to eat whole wheat and grains. I eat them and gain for no apparent reason. It is maddening.

If you like broccoli, it is simple to nuke...same with caulifower, corn on the cob (wrap in Saran and nuke for 1 or 2 minutes. Fix your meat with rice, potato or whatever else you want, add a veggie and some fruit and you not only have a meal that is probably cheaper, but better for you.

We had snow all last week and I got hungry for fried mush. I made a batch, which ended up 2 loaf pans full and shared one with my neighbor. I figured up the cost...30 cents/loaf pan. It tasted SO good.

Though you would probably want to buy rather than make your English muffins. I just looked at a package of Thomas's English muffins in my fridge, and no high-fructose corn syrup is listed, though "sugar" is way down on the list. You would have to add a teaspoon or so of sugar to the yeast yourself if you made them from scratch. An English muffin has only 1 g of sugars, 1 g of fat, and contains 120 calories. Add some turkey slices and whatever else you like on the sandwich and you will be far better off than buying the Weight Watchers stuff. One package of English muffins and a package of high-quality sliced turkey (or roast and slice your own) will give you eight sandwiches, each one surely costing less than the pre-made one, and more nutritious to boot.

from scratch. If you check labels, you'll find it everywhere. I didn't realize how widespread the use of HFCS was until I watched "Food, Inc." in PBS.

Sugar is bad too, but it tends to have more satiety so people don't usually over eat or over drink it as much.

Anyway, I eat a lot of oatmeal. I love it I wish I would have discovered my love for it decades ago.

My favorite meal now is breakfast I make this a lot I don't know what to call it and a lot of people will think it's weird, but I love it:

1 cup oatmeal

2 cups water combined and I nuke it for 6 minutes

add a table spoon of nutritional yeast

half each of garlic powder and onion powder

some salt to taste

pour on some plain almond milk or plain soy milk. I also add a pinch of cayenne. If you need more calories you can add a margarine like Earth Balance.

You can have healthy, or you can have cheap. Shopping for non-HFCS foods added about $.50-$1.50 per item to my bill, as well as adding about 15 extra minutes per trip to my shopping experience while I stand and read labels.

I've just started buying ingredients and making most of my own stuff at home.

And they will usually advertise the fact on the bread packaging. I make sure to not buy bread with HFCS.