Thursday, September 25, 2014

Cutting out High Fructose Corn Syrup.....

After reading and hearing more and more about how High Fructose Corn Syrup is bad, our family decided to make an effort to cut it from our diet.

Wow!!  It that easier said than done!

What may surprise you is where you find this!!  It is in almost EVERYTHING!!!  Bread, dressings, snacks, soups!  In places you wouldn't think of!!

As we tried to cut this out of our diet - it became more about eating healthy unprocessed foods.  Foods that didn't have all the yucky stuff in them.  When you start reading labels you start wondering what is in my food and WHY????

It may start to freak you out when you start this journey and you start thinking you will not be able to find foods that are okay unless you make them from scratch!!

It is difficult - - but not IMPOSSIBLE!!!

One of the first things we discovered was Ketchup.  Of course you can make your own - but if you are a busy family like us - we found :

Simply Heinz


Ingredients

DISTILLED VINEGAR, NATURAL FLAVORING, ONION POWDER, SALT, SPICE, SUGAR, TOMATO CONCENTRATE FROM RED RIPE TOMATOES

Our kids really did not notice a difference with this when we first started using it.  They liked it the same as any other Ketchup.  After using this for a while, they do notice they don't like the sweet varieties as much!!!


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