Hi all,

This is a bit of a rant, so bear with me...

We try to buy ds foods with no/low added salt, sugar, preservatives, other additives. We also try to buy Australian made foods because we know the regulations here are better but also because of the whole "food miles" concept. Add to the mix I read recently on the Choice website that many canned goods are lined with a plastic that has BPA in it, and there is some toxic PVC softening chemical in some jar lids! So I make most food from scratch. My ethos is factory food = bad, but sometimes it can't be avoided, eg Tinned tomatoes are in lots of our curries and spag bol etc. And I've got a real bee in my bonnet now.

Tinned tomatoes - you would think hey, simple. But check the ingredients and many have sugar, salt, preservative, additive, blah blah. In fact most of the Aus made ones I pick up do, so I go against the Aus made ethos and buy the Italian ones. Buh bow, the ones I bought have the white plastic lining the cans.

So after trialing like 6 different brands of tinned tomato, I can't find one product that is...

Just tomatoes
Made in Aus
Not lined with BPA

We are seriously considering trying to grow all our tomatoes for next season (we have a small block so this would be hard, so far all I can grow is weeds and chilli)

Sooooo

Would anyone else be interested in starting a thread of "safe" foods?

* No additives
* Safe packaging
* Made in Aus

It doesn't seem like it should be this hard? Anyone else with me?

Tish
xx