My Little Rant

Stand by for a little rant…

But only because I know you guys get it and can understand my food freak language that annoys most of the rest of the world.  This includes my sister.  I was at her house last week when one of her adorable little day care kids was there, a baby boy who was eating some “breakfast” his mom sent.  It was these little pink marshmallow looking “fruit” snacks.  PINK means red 40 food coloring (scroll down through these posts if you're not convinced yet on the dangers of food dyes) and I can't even imagine what the ingredients were in those little blobs of nastiness.  When I verbalized something similar to that, my sister said, “Wow you must be annoying to live with.”  I cracked up, but also was reminded of how blessed I am that Kent is the same way, so we basically just annoy our kids together!  Here's the thing, though, please do not think that I am judging this mom, because I fed my kids the same junk before I knew better.  And Saturday when I had to take a turn working concessions for our son's soccer team, I didn't judge then either, when I'd see the steady stream of kids coming up with their parents to buy the most disgusting stuff that I used to think was “food”.  Things like nacho chips and “cheese” sauce.  Or brightly colored candy.  Here was the worst:  frozen corn dogs that would get warmed up IN the plastic wrapper IN the microwave.  Gads it was torture not to say anything but I kept my lips zipped.

“Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago...” “Years from now we'll say, ‘I can't believe we let them get away with that'.” Have you seen this trailer for “Fed Up“?

My only complaint about this trailer is that they're focusing only on sugar as the problem, but it's also all the OTHER stuff in processed food that's making our country so sick.  Things like chemical preservatives, seed oils (vegetable oils like canola, soy, corn), and food dyes!

We just can't do better until we know better, which is why I keep writing this blog, hoping to help more along this journey that was really tough in the beginning.

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