Guess The Product

Anyone up for a game? I'll admit right away I am not the inventor of this game, but find it loads of fun. In Sally Fallon's cookbook (that I have learned quite a bit from), Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, she lists in various spots throughout the book, lists of ingredients to well known products and you read them and try to guess what product she's talking about. It's amazing when you isolate the ingredients, without knowing the product, that it's sometimes challenging to figure it out, but also it makes you THINK about the ingredients, what is really in food, and makes you second guess buying it ever again. Well, unless you're sick as today's post will indicate.

Sooo...here's your challenge for today. Actually this one's pretty easy, but fun nonetheless.

Water, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, cane sugar syrup, natural and artificial flavor, citric acid, locust bean gum, guar gum, ascorbic acid, carrageenan, natural and articifial color (may contain one or more of the following: annatto, turmeric, caramel, blue 1 & 2, red 3 & 40, yellow 5 & 6).

I'll give you a few minutes.

If you're not sure, I'll give you a few clues as I explain why I'm using this particular product.

My family has spent the past week passing cold germs to each other and it hasn't been fun. I don't sick too often and usually not severe, but this cold really did me in! I could feel my glands popping out of my neck and was desperate for something cold on my throat so I asked my husband to please pick up the above product because I needed something to help! I knew the basic ingredients of this product but it wasn't enough to stop me from eating one.

OK, three. AND letting my kids eat one.

OK, two!

And yes, if you haven't guessed yet, we're talking about popsicles!

I threw the rest out after I remembered the yummy slushies from Laura at

heavenlyhomemakers.com. Check out her blog sometime. She has amazing recipes (that I think she comes up with on her own...amazing woman!) for homemade crackers, soft pretzels, dinners and lunches, all kinds of good healthy stuff. And a great series called "Getting Real With Food" that I enjoy reading. Here's the link for the slushies. Oh, and you can leave out the spinach and use whatever fruit combination sounds good to you! After remembering them and realizing we had frozen strawberries and peaches from the summer, we made some and they felt fantastic on my throat. Then I got the brilliant idea to turn them into popsicles by putting the slushies in little dixie cups. We have a juicer and were making our own popsicles with fresh orange and pineapple juice but these are great because they're already partially frozen and you can put the popsicle stick in right away and not have to remember you have a tray of frozen juice in the freezer.

So try them sometime. You're in for a treat!