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I want to eat a baked good. I'm in a very large mall but all the ones they have are . . . bad . . . Damn them!!!! What's wrong with people?

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I can only eat less than 5% of the baked goods where I live. On the day I wrote that I wheeled through an upscale bakery where the products were at nose level because I was using my wheelchair. They smelled and looked wonderful but they all contained hydrogenated oil. The innocent customers thought they were in Disneyland, but I can't eat that stuff. I wished the products would have magically been reformulated because they would be so wonderful: danishes, ham, cheese, onion and spinach rolls, croissants, leige waffles, fan tan rolls, and and rows and rows of buttery goodness only it wasn't. I went upstairs to the Japanese food court and picked up a suspicious looking custard tart. The ingredients listed were natural but several were missing. I bought it and took it to the bookstore because I was so hungry for pastries. Sure enough, I could taste the hydrogenated oil and bitter, shell-treated, supermarket eggs. So much for that. I didn't really want one but I bought a macaroon from the bookstore to staunch the cravings.

Late at night I went to a supermarket. I was craving multi-grains at that time. I bought a multi-grain nut and seed loaf for seven dollars. It tasted pretty good but it did not agree with my me. For the next few days I kept farting. All that healthy whole-grainy goodness fermented in my belly. I somehow started having sweet and beer cravings. I put honey in my yogurt and started drinking almond milk hot chocolates.

Several days later I got to a small neighborhood bakery that has pure stuff. I bought a loaf of raisin bread for $4.00. They charge twice that elsewhere and I won't pay it. I bought two mini-baugettes and some blueberry danishes. They're in the car. I feel better now. I located cinnamon rolls in the drugstore that don't have hydrogenated oil for a later time and found out when they are delivered.

Why is it so frickin difficult to make decent baked goods? They do it in Europe every day. I guess I am going to have to make the effort to go to special places to buy them. Whole Foods isn't one of those places. A lot of their stuff is previously frozen or crazy expensive.