Processed food. If I go to Giant or an American grocery store and buy what I “need”, I end up with a cartload of crap and spend over $100. If I go to the big Korean store down the street and get everything I want, I end up with a cart full of fresh meat and seafood, fresh vegetables, curry ingredients, rice and noodles and spend $60 maximum.
Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing:
 Serving size, 2TB (yeah, right!)
 14 grams of fat
 140 calories
 260mg of sodium
Kirkland Meatballs from Costco:
 Serving size: 5 meatballs
 20 grams of fat
  270 calories
 610mg of sodium
That is just insane! I power-walk for 45 minutes on the treadmill to burn just under 500 calories. I predict a dramatic change in what goes into the refrigerator from now on.
We already do pretty good, since we eat Filipino food with rice every day and heavily emphasize fresh vegetables, etc. However, its the small things that are killing me. A soda or two, regular dressing on the salad, and these fake meatballs in the spaghetti are wasting the time that I spend working out.
Of course, if you think that 610mg of sodium is a lot, check out the amount of sodium in regular soy sauce sometime. 1200mg per tablespoon, almost half of what you should have in a day, is not unusual!
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