 Here's what's going on in the New Jersey area supermarkets this month Hey there and J route 22.com here with another supermarket kind of news chat discussion for the supermarkets in the Northeast primarily in New Jersey and PA and and so on We got some observations. We're gonna make this month and there's no rhyme or reason here But we do it anyway number one is that we started noticing the Holiday eggnogs out in full force this month. It's actually back in October late September They just bring this stuff out. They got to get there. They got a muscle for shelf space But you look at the eggnogs any of them. They're like really high in sugar and we don't touch them But eggnog is a sign of the times Also interesting to note is that shop, right and like many other supermarkets and another big chain stores They're venturing out into their own house brand, which means they get some big company to I guess it's called white labeling or something like that where they Some other company makes it for them and they put their name and brand on it They never put their they put in fine print. It says shop, right? But the shop right has something called bowling basket and another one that I'm talking about here is this house brand of paper products called paper bird or something like that and They have nice minimalist design. It looks kind of like some sort of I can't Describe it exactly, but we do not Vouch for these products. We don't like them. They're a fairly high on the price Side and the value is crap because the quality sucks Shop rate if you're watching this Improve your product get a different supplier. They're awful awful awful products. I don't like them especially paper towels They're rougher than sandpaper And the next Thing I need to point out I didn't know this my whole life Campbell's soups those condensed soups like cream of mushroom for instance we were going to make some sort of casserole and I looked I was ready to buy a can of Campbell's condensed cream of mushroom soup soup and I looked at the label like MSG Monosodium glutamate was one of the primary ingredients I put it down and I found some organic crap on the other side of the aisle, but no wonder everybody used to love these Stuffings that they made and all the kinds of Casseroles they made with these condensed soups. They're highly addictive read the label on these things It's you got to watch out no matter how cheap it is You're going to shovel it down and get sick and overeat. Don't do it and My last little tidbit for today is we've been watching the low carb of ice cream Trend there was one like six months ago's rebel ice cream. It was the only keto high-fat zero or very low sugar low-carb Ice cream and it was made with one of those natural sweeteners I think I'll writh or tall and monk fruit were the sweeteners and now the enlightened brand started Coming out with a keto collection version. We tried them and I should put a little asterisk here footnote We think we're on the verge of saying or have said that eating anything sweet Even if it's a healthy sweetener is probably not a good thing because the human body is not meant to eat such Quantity of sweets. There was a reason at the climate tree to get an orange Back in the caveman days and and I don't know we just don't think so but that we should be eating it But there are now like like at least half a dozen or more of these low-carb ice creams and One we picked up a couple pints today It's called Sola brand and that's a massive brand with all sorts of different low sugar or Product breads, too, and they they want to replace our memories of the standard American diet And maybe or maybe these low-carb sugars are good. I don't know I'm kind of on the fence with this, but I haven't tried these these new ice creams yet Apparently, they're the most like Old ice cream of days past I'll say one thing about these low-carb ice creams that the texture is not quite the same as regular ice cream They're either two Crystallics I think xylitol causes some sort of crystallization ice crystals. It's not as smooth as Sugar-based ice creams, but apparently this new one. There's two new sweeteners, too. One is allulose Which apparently is really? Good from from some people's perspectives and another one called tag a toast which is a Dairy-based sweetener that's in these Sola ice creams that we bought We'll report back at a future time on what these ice creams taste like but and they were actually a good price They're only like three bucks a pint Compared to some of the six dollar seven dollar pints that these there's a keto brand which is Awful and you got to watch out these new low-carb ice creams. They're stepping up the carb count per serving and That means some of these pints are getting up into the 20 30 40 50 grams of carbs levels Whereas rebel ice cream only had anywhere between four and maybe seven grams of carbs per pint Which is very low. That means you can shovel the whole pint down and not spike your blood sugar So that's it for this month's supermarket observations just You know open your eyes look around walk down isles you don't normally go and and just see what's going on in the Food world you got to monitor these things to make sure especially those plant-based things, you know But that's it hit the subscribe button like and all that stuff and I'll be back next month with another collection of observations Have a good day