Breakfast

I have a dilemma. My girlfriend, wonderful cook that she is, likes to prepare a week's worth of breakfast in bar form. She bakes a tray of granola bars loaded with nutrients: cheese, peanut butter, apple, bran flakes. But for binding purposes, she uses...honey. Now, technically, honey is not a sugar, but it technically is as well.  I don't want to skate by on a loophole in my own rules.

Now, I love to eat, and these bars are fantastically tasty, and so packed with all sorts of healthy stuff that they're quite filling too. I commute back and forth a lot and it's important to be able to have quick to go food for breakfast.

The long and short of it is, I have been eating them, honey be damned. It's a small amount in a large tray, and I don't even use ketchup right now, for goodness' sake! (For the record, they do not taste sweet. I mean, no sweeter than the apple in the bar would when baked into anything).

Another thing my girlfriend like to do is vary the recipe from week to week, using different sorts of apples, cheese, or greens like kale or spinach. We like to discuss the different tastes and how one batch differs from another, what we liked and what we didn't, and so on.

Today, while having our weekly bar discussion (jealous?), she let it slip that had run out of honey when she was making the bars and had added as a substitute simple syrup.

Which is essentially sugar and water.

Needless to say, I was a little shocked. She told me she had said this while making them, but I was caught unawares. You know when someone is talking to you but you are also thinking about something else and only half comprehend what they are saying? A lot of that. But also not listening.

Suffice it to say, I will not be eating any more of the bars now, knowing what I know. But what is an appropriate punishment to rectify this? I can't quite decide if I should start over again or something to that effect. I suppose I'd better sleep on it. Until then!