Comments on: Processing Food, Inc

By: Still Processing Food, Inc

Still Processing Food, Inc — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:18:45 +0000

[...] shared with you that I had finally watched the movie Food, Inc. I am still processing it. Still trying to figure out how we will do things differently. Take [...]

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:39:04 +0000

Haha Em, that is so wrong!!!

By: Em.

Em. — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:37 +0000

My dad still insists on cubed Kraft singles on his tacos. It makes me nauseous to think about, but your post reminded me.

The change from processed hell to real food is a challenging one, but I think any steps we take are worth it.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:27:01 +0000

Wow, tons of information to sift through. I know I am not the first one to think through this and I will be far from the last. It’s not the processed foods I struggle with, it’s the meat. I can control the processed foods by not allowing them in the house. It’s the meat that we eat way to much of that is the problem.

By: Milehimama

Milehimama — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:12:28 +0000

I struggled at first with “real food” too, but actually my food bill has gone down. I blogged last year, 40 weeks of food for less than $2 per person per day. Cutting out the processed food was a huge help to our budget (you can find my old shopping lists and menu plans under “Food Stamp Challenge”.

It does take effort. I live in Houston, not exactly on a farm. My HOA won’t even let me grow veggies in the front (as though I could grow anything here in July anyway!) Making a lot of things from scratch has helped too. A big thing that helped me line out my budget is that I made my own “food rules”, or priorities.
http://www.milehimama.com/2009/12/30/real-food/

So, now I spend a lot more on meat (previously, I would never pay more than $2 a pound for meat; now I think anything less than $5 a pound is a deal because I buy the antibiotic/hormone free pork, poultry, and beef!) But other areas of our food eating adjusted down. I don’t buy a lot of chips or crackers anymore. My kids eat fruit for snacks and I almost never purchase cookies or popsicles. It’s a trade off, but it can be done!