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so if you avoid 'processed foods'...

groovygrlgroovygrl member
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I'm curious about your definition of processed or what you choose to eat/not eat.
E.g.-

Do you consider anything that is premade from multiple ingredients in any form processed?

Do you consider most things in a jar, can or frozen (not including just frozen fruits or veggies) processed?

Do you consider only things that include fillers, preservatives, long words you can't pronounce, additives like corn syrup or other things like that processed?

If you saw a frozen burger and the ingredients listed were all things that someone could actually make a burger out of themselves at home, would you avoid it or still eat it?

Obviously most ppl probably allow for some leniency and variety here & there but I'm just curious...everyone seems to throw around "avoiding processed foods" and I feel like it can be defined or interpreted a lot of different ways.

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Re: so if you avoid 'processed foods'...

  • RaeAntRaeAnt member

    We try to avoid things with corn syrup,HFCS, nitrates/nitrites and tons of food particularly red and yellow which seems to be in everything.

    We still use frozen or jarred but not canned. For the frozen and jarred it has to be just the fruit or veggie or the like. not added "crap". Most you can still find with water or using fruit juice or straight up. It's impossible....ok not impossible, but very difficult to avoid altogether especially if you eat out so we do make concessions  from time to time. We normally do pretty good about choosing healthy fresh and whole foods.

    That said, we feel that if we are too restrictive, the kids will just go hog wild when they are at a friends or on their own so we look for healthy alternatives like Pirate Booyt for conventional cheese puffs. I think we've found a good middle ground because,at least for DS, when given the choice he still picks the fruit over ice cream  and so on.

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  • penguingrrlpenguingrrl member
    Generally I include all frozen foods to be part, but I have never looked at frozen foods enough to notice what ingredients there were. The per lb price of premade frozen things is so high I wouldn't consider it for that reason.
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  • cpmichcpmich member
    imageRaeAnt:
    We try to avoid things with corn syrup,HFCS, nitrates/nitrites and tons of food particularly red and yellow which seems to be in everything.We still use frozen or jarred but not canned. For the frozen and jarred it has to be just the fruit or veggie or the like. not added "crap". Most you can still find with water or using fruit juice or straight up. It's impossible....ok not impossible, but very difficult to avoid altogether especially if you eat out so we do make concessionsnbsp; from time to time. We normally do pretty good about choosing healthy fresh and whole foods.That said, we feel that if we are too restrictive, the kids will just go hog wild when they are at a friends or on their own so we look for healthy alternatives like Pirate Booyt for conventional cheese puffs. I think we've found a good middle ground because,at least for DS, when given the choice he still picks the fruit over ice creamnbsp; and so on.

    This exactly, even preferring fruit to ice cream.
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  • kcisthebombdotcomkcisthebombdotcom member
    imageRaeAnt:

    We try to avoid things with corn syrup,HFCS, nitrates/nitrites and tons of food particularly red and yellow which seems to be in everything.

    We still use frozen or jarred but not canned. For the frozen and jarred it has to be just the fruit or veggie or the like. not added "crap". Most you can still find with water or using fruit juice or straight up. It's impossible....ok not impossible, but very difficult to avoid altogether especially if you eat out so we do make concessions  from time to time. We normally do pretty good about choosing healthy fresh and whole foods.

    That said, we feel that if we are too restrictive, the kids will just go hog wild when they are at a friends or on their own so we look for healthy alternatives like Pirate Booyt for conventional cheese puffs. I think we've found a good middle ground because,at least for DS, when given the choice he still picks the fruit over ice cream  and so on.

    this is pretty much what we do.

    Also, while we do avoid we don't completely ban. I don't lose sleep if my kid eats a lollipop at the bank twice a month.  

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  • flyingsaucerflyingsaucer member

    We try to avoid foods with chemicals in them... I prefer real food ingredients whenever possible (ex. When buying whole wheat bread I get "all natural" as opposed to those with corn syrup, etc).  But this is just what I strive for... I don't get too nuts about it (so we will have Oreos from time to time).

    i will get frozen veggies, but I cook most things myself so its not that hard to do this.  I don't generally buy prepared or frozen meals etc.  If an item is frozen (like a burger but made with 100% beef... Although I don't eat meat) then that's fine. Even "natural" and organic frozen and canned foods can have a high sodium content so I try to avoid them since I have high blood pressure

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