Do you avoid processed/packaged foods...

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Tue, 10-03-2006 - 5:37pm

Do you avoid processed/packaged foods? Please elaborate.



  • Yes
  • No
  • If I can afford to


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Tue, 10-03-2006 - 5:40pm

I would like to avoid packaged foods a lot more so I can tweak things just a bit so I can have vegan things. Like mac n' cheese for instance. I'm guessing, as conveient as buying Annie's mac n' cheese might be, that I'd be able to afford it better if I made mac n' cheese from scratch using soy cheese.

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Tue, 10-03-2006 - 11:32pm

I would choose "sometimes". Over the past year, I've really learned a lot about processed foods and hydrogenated oils, etc, and I would love my diet to be 100% free of those ingredients. But, it's hard! Whole foods tend to be more expensive, and realistically, it's hard to eat that way all the time. Especially if you eat out, or are at friends houses etc. I've been shopping around lately at a "whole foods" store and I have found that their own store brand is actually pretty cheap. I can get "cheetos" there, for example, that have no hydrogenated oils, and they are sooo inexpensive!

So, with anything, moderation is the key. (In my opinion.) I try to get whole foods and avoid processed/packaged foods, but it's difficult to do all the time.

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Wed, 10-04-2006 - 9:44am

I think that "I can't afford it all the time" is a large part of why I don't really think of myself as vegan. I think many vegan ideas are very good, but you're right. It is so expensive. Especially when it comes to eating over friends' or at restaurants. I really like to avoid being an "obnoxious" vegetarian as so many of the people I regularly come into contact with have bad impressions of vegetarians because they've known too many stereotypically obnoxious vegetarians.


And moderation is definitely the key, in everything in life I think

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Wed, 10-04-2006 - 2:24pm

I am so like you in that I don't want to be the "obnoxious" vegetarian either, lolol!! I hate making it the topic of conversation because then I get all defensive and start spouting off all the reasons why everyone should be vegetarian cuz of environmental reasons, etc..blah blah blah, and by that point, because they all think I'm weird anyway, I've just confirmed their thoughts, lol!

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Wed, 10-04-2006 - 4:04pm

I really like keeping the "reasons why" conversation away from the table, or wherever eating is happening lol. I'm a recovering anorexic and am extremely troubled by anything that makes eating stressful. Like I sometimes have problems eating at restaurants if they're too loud.


lol @ "confirming their thoughts". I feel that way a lot with my family. homeschooling, multilingualism, vegetarianism, pacifism... just seems like I'm always adding another -ism or something that makes me further different from my family

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Fri, 10-06-2006 - 9:12am
It has taken me several years to convert but it seems really easy now. Packaged food tastes so gross to me now. Although I admit the annie's mac n cheese is SO yummy, it's an exception. I did break down last week and bought a boxed food, pregnancy cravings ya know, I bought some granola bars.
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Fri, 10-06-2006 - 9:36am
I still eat it when I make it for the rest of the family, but I can't get over the color of powdered cheese that comes in mac n' cheese. Definitely the first thing to go if/when my dh gets a real raise :D but since he's still working at Walmart, I don't really expect that any time soon
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Fri, 10-06-2006 - 5:46pm

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Fri, 10-06-2006 - 6:47pm

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Fri, 10-06-2006 - 7:18pm
What a great article. Lots of very important information. I want to send her the article. Thanks for doing what you do regarding all that information to get people "out there" aware.

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