Healthy food gone bad

One item on my grocery list today was rice cakes for the kids. Rice cakes are empty food: not much in them nutrisionally or calorie wise. Sort of styrofoam packing material with a little bit of salt for flavoring. At least thats how they started out.

Today on the shelf I found 'cool ranch flavor, spicy jalapenos, cracker-jacks, peanut butter, caramel chocolate chip, white chedder and extra buttery popcorn flavors. But no plain ones. Besides the extensive list of chemicals, some of them had more calories than potato chips. What was originally a sort-of good idea had gone completely off the deep end.