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food, healthy eating, natural, organic, preservatives, real food, whole food
I don’t have a lot of “free” time these days. I can usually be found at a gym, at work organizing & printing the latest coupons (no, that’s not my job but I never have anything to do there so that’s what fills the time!), chasing kids, kids classes or frantically surface cleaning my house. I haven’t talked on the phone to someone in so long I’m pretty sure my friends have forgotten my voice!! So I don’t have a whole lot of extra time reading nutrition labels on every food item I purchase.
Have you read the labels lately? They are awful. I was so pissed off when I left the grocery store today. Try and find a reasonably priced food item that doesn’t contain a ton of “filler” ingredients and/or preservatives. How did we survive before this crap? Did we just look at the food and it was spoiled? Was it so expensive that no one could afford it? I bought lemon juice. Lemon juice. It said 100% real lemon juice. Apparently that means, what juice is in this product is 100% lemon juice. It says nothing for the other crap. I’m wondering what percentage of this bottle is actually “juice” and the rest corn syrup and preservatives as those are listed in the ingredients?? Why in God’s name do we need to “fill” lemon juice bottles with junk and make it last 10 years? WTF?!
Every damn thing I bought was filled with something and had preservatives in it. OK, there were a few exceptions, but still. If it’s on the shelf, it’s going to be made to last 10 years in your pantry. Gross.
I’m determined to find me some real food and a way to do without all this crap. Looking for information… feel free to leave me some in the comments!!
Wow, I have been complaining about the stupid prices for months. I spent $150 last week and left with 4 little bags of groceries! Yes, the preservatives are horrible for America that is why we are all dying at a younng age! The crap is killing us.
Really, the only way to eat healthy is to grow your own food! Truly. It’s amazing how many people have died from Ecoli on lettuce or spinach purchased at a grocery store. Now, I am scared to purchase lettuce or spinach because the farmers are growing the lettuce right across from the cow pastures! The feces runs with the rain into the lettuce and spinach fields. (perhaps tmi)
I love salad, but refuse to purchase it from the grocerty store now. Kids have died due to eating a salad! Wish I had the land to have a garden. We are thinking of moving, just for that reason alone.
Great Post! Makes us readers think about what we are putting in our mouths every day.
BTW – you already know this, but maybe your readers do not. The less ingrediants in any food the better. Like peanut butter, eggs etc. I eat a ton of peanut butter, and only buy true BUTTER. Did you know animals will not eat Margarine, only real BUTTER. That says something!
Great Post.
I can not wait to start our garden again. I’m trying to figure out how I can have one all year long!! I LOVE our garden in the summer. We all eat so healthy and the kids love all the fresh, crunchy veggies 🙂