Milk Without Cookies

I wonder if this generation of women will be known as the Oprah generation.

Like her or not, this woman is a driving cultural force. She has made it her business to effect cultural change. She started with things like her Book Club, and this year, she has actually enlisted her viewers in catching sexual predators, and paid them healthy rewards for their participation.

She has been open over the years about her weight loss struggles, and recently she has taken on the Great American Debt Diet, encouraging Americans to get out of debt, and reach financial freedom.

Yesterday, her buddy, Dr. Oz was on talking about the evils of the American diet, including partially hydrogenated oils (which are in pretty much everything), enriched flour (that should be called un-enriched flour), and the American favorite high fructose corn syrup (liquid sugar).

So instead of hitting Aldi today, where I can find everything fast, cheap, and full of the above ingredients, I visited Aldi's granola big brother Trader Joe's. I bought all of the stuff the Dr. Oz recommended including Salmon, natural peanut butter, good oils, greens, etc. I was delighted to find that even the chips were free of the evil ingredients above.

Seriously, I couldn't help but wonder how many of the other members of the shopping throng were influenced by Oprah's show yesterday. It seemed awfully crowded for a Tuesday morning.