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Are any of you watching Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution? Wow. That's all I can say.
Over here at "the Tub" we are label readers. Mike is a pro - he does most of the shopping - and has a long list of things to avoid when buying food for our family.
The other day I took the boys to the grocery store mid-week to replenish our fruit supply. Anyway, we decided to try and find some fruit snacks for the boys. Every single box Quinn brought to me had high fructose corn syrup in it. So much so, that he started to find that ingredient himself on the packaging. After awhile, he stopped checking fruit snacks with cartoons on them saying, "I know this will have corn syrup in it, because the Curious George ones and the Nemo ones and all the other ones for kids had it in it." And so he started looking at the more "healthy" looking boxes - all of which had the HFCS in it. We settled on freeze-dried fruit. Not as fun looking... but all that's in a package of freeze-dried bananas and strawberries are, believe it or not, freeze-dried bananas and strawberries (about one banana and 4 strawberries). And it's not as though we manage to keep the HFCS out of everything - our ketchup and relish has it.
I will admit, we are not the best example of the "Best Foods" to eat or feed your family, but I'm proud of the awareness we've taught the kids. We try our best, but at the same time our kids are allowed to eat snacks and desserts - especially when we're out visiting other people.
Quinn's been sick. Honestly, we've all been sick, but today was Quinn's day to feel the worst. After dinner I offered him one of the sugar cookies we made the other day and he turned it down... he said, "No. That's just like candy. That's not going to help me get better. I should have some fruit... maybe an apple with the skin on?" Uh. Okay.
What a weirdo.
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I'm loving that show but Alice is driving me nuts! Relax, lady, it's not a personal attack on you. Geesh.
But, yeah, the only fruit snack I've found without HFCS is from Annie's Organic line of goods and they use organic tapioca syrup, which I read is worse than HFCS.
What a sweet boy to ask for apple with the skin.
Okay, don't watch that (we don't have cable, argh), but am also a label watcher. No HFCS here. And good for you for raising a child to turn down a cookie. Wish I did that ;-).
Hi. I'm new to your blog and lovin your post...I can't wait to see more of the Food Revolution!
Marketing can take forever...it's great that your hubs does it.
Bethany asked me to stop drinking beer. She said, it will make me fat.
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