My daughter had a practice after school today. I thought we would get home about an hour later than usual. I brought my water bottle, but nothing else. However, tomorrow is the first pep rally of the year, and after practice she got involved with helping decorate the gym. It was 6:30 when we left the school, and she had to run one errand on the way home. I was hungry.

The store where she needed to go was two doors from a little health food store. Hurray, I thought, I can run in for a snack. All of that food, but nothing for an O! It wasn't surprising that the cookies were made from wheat. And it wasn't surprising that the frozen products had dairy. What was surprising was how many foods I could have otherwise eaten were sweetened with corn syrup. Green tea (sweetened with corn syrup), sesame bars (corn syrup - second ingredient), wheat free protein bars (with corn syrup).

I was feeling desperate! At last I found a cranberry/grape juice with no avoids. It was delicious. But I left feeling it rather strange that in a health food store there was nothing healthy for an O.