Big people food time? Noooo!! It’s toxic.

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Everly has begun to let us know she’s not interesting in eating jarred baby foods anymore. I even brought one along for our trip to the Olive Garden on Saturday so she’d have something safe to eat.

She just whined and refused to take bites of the jar food but when N offered her a bit of his pasta she was all over it. She eats so darn much too! She ate like half his pasta, poor guy.

I get that she’s becoming more independent and that she’s adventurous with foods but now that she’s eating what we are eating I am even more paranoid about all the bad stuff we are consuming.

Most meats have this solution injected in them, they come from animals that are factory farmed and fed things they aren’t meant to eat… Our vegetables and fruits are splattered with pesticides, dyes and waxes. Some are even genetically modified to make things easier for farmers and less natural for us.

Convenience foods are laden with preservatives, flavor enhancers and colors so that they keep on shelves longer and appeal to more consumers. Then there is the major issue of BPA leaching with canned goods and bottled items.

Our food industry (the majority of it) has become nothing more than a money making venture that is overrun with greed, short cuts and wrong choices. Rather than being concerned with health and nutrition we (farmers, manufacturers and consumers) are all more interested in our pocket books and now all we have is crap on the shelves.

Right now Everly eats organic, no GMI, no BPA, MSG free and preservative free baby foods… Those are much easier to come by because they aren’t too costly and I can order them online. Did I mention natural foods are hard to come by here?

Like most parents I want Everly to have the best, safest foods. I know that we aren’t eating the best stuff ourselves but we are already all contaminated and ruined by the toxins. She is not.

Now that she’s only wanting to eat what we do it seems we’ll need to be switching our entire diet and kitchen contents over or we are gonna have to make peace with the shit foods that fill the store shelves.

Curious to learn about the food industry, you know the stuff they don’t want you to know? Watch this documentary on PBS 4/22/2010 or record it.

Now for a little quiz and some reader interaction! Which of these quick lunchtime foods is best when you take a look at the ingredient lists? Why do you think so? Tell me what you think!

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maiden53

I am soooo glad that my suggestion didn't make you guys mad at me! Wouldn't ALLL parents LOVE to keep our loved ones in a safe bubble! I have wanted to much more than I should.... it has been good friends - and sometimes my KIDS!) that have helped me to keep a better perspective on what is real and how harmful it is to our kids. I read a blog the other day about how we shouldn't keep our kids from failing... that failing is a great teacher. It was a good reminder for me as I head into the teenage world with my boys. The blog I am referring to is Backpacking Dad - http://backpackingdad.com/2010/04/teaching/ . His blog today is pretty funny, about babyproofing for your crawling child. You may enjoy it, too
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maiden53

Hurrah for you! I think eating the mac/cheese would be best too, because of the msg and salt. But to be honest, T, if E does not get some of the bad, she will have issues when she is actually put into the real world. No immunity built up for what is there and that can not be changed, unfortunately. When Luke was a baby, I kept him so clean. I would go visit a friend who had several boys. She would always run out to her porch and bring in a flower pot that was filled with just dirt and let Luke play in it. At first I was DON'T! But it did not hurt him at all. It built up immunities. When E gets to school, the lunch room will be preparing food for the masses, even at her job or any restraurant. I HATE it that the real world is full of these disgusting things but it is what it is. I applaud you, though... don't get that part wrong from me at all :-) She should be getting all healthy stuff for now - she is growing so fast in so many ways. But the bad should be introduced occaisionally. Miss you guys :-)
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Talina

Heather and Maiden53:

Good points and tips. Thanks! I have been having panic attacks each time she grabs for bites of what we are eating but you are right. Can't keep the trapped in a safe bubble forever. "unless we chain her to a wall in the basement" or something as N put it. LOL.

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Heather Jones

To answer your question I think its the craft maceroni as it doesn't have the msg that the other items have.

But to give you some tips on cut up foods for E, this is what I do. It sounds like you don't have a farmers market near you, so that really sucks. But I make a lot of the same foods Jaydon ate as purred stuff. I boil up sweet potatoes for J in canberry juice so they are soft. I boil up apples in a gerber fruit juice so they keep its flavor. Of course he has cheese, cottage cheese and avacado. But beans are really good for baby because of the protein. Pinto beans, black beans you name it. Also try edamame. They make Anne's organic macaroni and cheese. Jaydon likes the shell kind and Jaydon only drinks organic whole milk now. Of course when we eat dinner he may have corn or green beans from off our plates that are usually from a can, but its pretty limited.
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