Why is it not wise to tell secrets in a cornfield?

There are too many ears!

Okay, enough with the CORN-y jokes. But a week without corn? Now that's the joke. Especially if you eat at TDR.

I did not eat a kernel of corn. I passed on the corn bread and the corn-based tortilla. My pasta was wheat and I ate a lot more salad, fruit, and vegetables all week. But as I still have a meal plan, it was extremely difficult to gauge my progress. As for the salad dressing... was there corn oils inside? I ate a chocolate muffin--- the zillion uses for corn page tells me that chocolate products use corn. I didn't drink soda all week-- I've been trying to eliminate it completely from my diet for a while now anyways, but I knew that drinking it would be a big No-No this week.
There is corn starch in baking powder as I learned from "corn-derived food ingredients I avoid." On Sunday was an event I organized and led called "Shaping Cookies, Shaping People," which was basically a cookie bake-off. Needless to say, I ate numerous cookies as a judge for this competition. I am sure that their baking powder was not of the potato-starch variety.
These, and many others I ate throughout the week, are more obvious in the fact that they contain ingredients made from corn. But the lists were so overwhelming, I did not even know where to begin, especially since I do not prepare a majority of my own food. What oils does TDR use when it lathers its food in grease? What are mannitol, methyl gluceth, methyl glucose, methyl glucoside, methylcellulose, microcrystaline cellulose, modified cellulose gum, sorbic acid, sorbitan, sorbitan monooleate, sorbitan tri-oleate, sorbitol, hominy, and so many more ingredients?? And are they in my food? I noticed that gluten is on there too. The bagel I ate probably had corn in it too.
All-in-all, I know that there was no way I made it through this entire week without eating corn. If I cooked my own food I could have been more successful. For this week, I tried to limit as many products that I could directly identify as products of corn ingredients, while also trying to limit my environmental impact still having the images of last week's videos and readings in my mind.