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I try to keep my grocery shopping about 99% fresh produce, meat, eggs, and dairy, and dry goods like rice and pasta, and baking staples. I also buy popcorn, but plain kernels for popping...not microwave packs. I don't do frozen prepared foods at all, but sometimes get frozen vegetables if what I need can't for some reason be found fresh. I don't typically buy deli or prepackaged lunchmeat.
Of the prepackaged foods, I will get jarred peanut butter, commercially baked bread and bagels, canned beans (I also get dried beans, but I tend to use the canned ones more) and canned tomatoes when good fresh ones aren't available. I don't really ever buy convenience foods, because my go-to convenience food is a peanut butter sandwich.
I remember that stuff from the mid-60's. That has to be the worst tasting soft drink in the history of soft drinks. I never knew anybody who liked it, although I'm sure it had it's followers, but they were a small number. Tab was one of the first, if not the first, "diet" or "low calorie" soft drinks in the history of soft drinks. If I'm not mistaken, it was before Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke. Seems like it was made by Coca Cola, making it their first version of a diet soda. I remember they gave away free samples in a 12 ounce paper cup at the grocery store the first week when it came out. It had the nastiest taste to it but I drank it anyway. I remember I threw it up on the way home. I believe it was sweetened with cyclamates, which the government banned a few years later when it was discovered cyclamates can cause cancer.
Never had a Tab since and hardly ever gave it another thought. But I do remember it making me sick. I'm not a doctor, but I bet it was my body rejecting the cyclamates.
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I think saccharine (pink packets) is what made it taste crappy - Tab went through a saccharine phase. Cyclamates were much closer to sugar in flavor, but induced bladder cancer in rats fed huge amounts of it.
As a child I loved that stuff, could not get enough of it! ! Boy does that bring back fond memories!
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