Your top additives/foods to avoid with children

[razzle]

Grapes contain natural msg and strawberries are high in salycilates.

There are a whole list of foods that contain natural msg but the main ones we avoid for DS1 (10) are tomatoes, grapes, brocolli, sultanas, soy sauce, vegemite and tomato sauce.

We avoid all artficial colours, flavours and additives as well as all preservatives. We also avoid the natural food colouring annato 160B which is used in a lot of yoghurts and icecreams.

[boomba]

Tiny teddies are the devil! Ds had them once and was so uncontrollable and hyper! Never again!
We try to aviod anything artificial, its hard but we try.

Will lok up the Sue Dengate site sounds interesting! Thanks!

[Lisa]

We avoid 211 which is a perservative in liquids (like soft drink & cordials)
It is very nasty and can alter your DNA. We now buy organic, home made cordial for our kids, and the occasional store bought one without 211.

[Lulu]

There is a shocking one in custard powder too....

Thanks Razzle, thats the info I was trying badly to get across!

[lilima]

DS once had a hotdog and went nuts! I think it must be the red

[~Raven~]

I've stopped buying:
all snack foods like museli bars, le snacks, chips, shapes etc.
those continental side dish things.
meat that is already flavoured ie satay sticks as they are a chemical ****tail.

As yet I haven't gone as far as eliminating with fruit and vegies but will look into it soon.

I bake a lot more for lunchbox snacks. Muffins, cookies or cakes. I've been making my own bread too. I love it straight out of the oven for lunch so that keeps me motivated lol

Am nak atm so don't have book with numbers sorry. Fed Up is Sue Dengates book. I've found it to be very informative.

[Pandora]

strawberries - 1-2 max a day and only once a week.
dried fruit, especially aprocots. sultanas seem ok not sure why.
icy poles - DS thinks the hydrolyte icypoles are great so I keep those in the freezer instead of the normal sort.

fruit juice, especially citrus is limited in this house as well.

custard powder depends on the brand. There is on called birds i think that comes in a tin, which doesnt have as many colours as the others. I cant have 123 or 124 so we dont get a lot of anything that has those in them, and I reckon we dont have custard more than 1 or 2 times a year anyway.

DS mostly likes to eat fruit and with most of it he is fine.

[Nelle]

Ohhh man. So all the lazy food is bad? Please tell me apples are fine...Riv is in love with apples and mandarins, I will cry if they are bad..

ETA: What if I make my bread in the bread maker using bread mix? How many times can I say bread in this ETA? I wonder if bread mix has bad stuff....