Thursday, January 14, 2010

Mucho Matcha

What a week this has been,my youngest has just recovered from a stomach virus which made its rounds to my oldest.I am writing this in the evening and it seems by then any witty thing that crossed my mind was only passing through for a visit,so this will be short,like me.

I found out something so terrible,so vile,that my hands don't dare type it...but I must.My favorite green tea has hidden sugar!Yes hidden sugar! They put a green tea powder in called Matcha and I have found I have an affinity for Matcha.I was told by one of the baristas there was no sugar in my drink but Starbucks,being the great company it is, put out a new nutritional flyer with all the info you could possibly need to see every hidden calorie you may not know you are consuming,so last week when I was ordering the biggest tea I could, thinking there was no sugar I was actually consuming about 25 grams per cup!Goodbye Matcha,you have been a friend of mine.So if something taste too good to be sugar free,it probably is!

I blather on about my Matcha to say this,we must be honest in our pursuits,if it is an eating plan ,we may have to be a little aggressive in finding out the truth or feel a bit embarassed asking questions but it is worth it to know,no one is going to just randomly tell you.

I climbed on my elliptical 2 days ago for some exercise and it fell apart!No,I wasn't over the weight limit,it just needs a special tool to tighten it up but there were a few fat jokes swimming in my head.Sooo I headed to the Wii and boy,was that fun, I played tennis and liked it so much I played again last night.They say [yes,its the infamous"They"again]exercise should be fun sometimes,to the point you don't even realize that is what you are doing and Wii definitely did that for me.

Did I say I was keeping this short? Uh oh my tummy is rumbling...

4 comments:

Cheri said...

Hope y 'all feel better over there!

JAC said...

Me too! Thank you.

Lisa B. said...

Sorry to hear that. Matcha itself has no sugar. You can take the very healthy matcha tea and prepare it with your sweetener of choice and make your own beverages at home. The Starbucks blend has a little matcha, plus the fillers needed for their blended drinks.

If you ever want to venture back into the matcha world, www dot threetreetea dot com sells straight matcha.

JAC said...

Thanks Lisa! I will have to check it out.I already miss my Matcha.

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