We are thinking of making our diet and preservative and additive free as possible but I was just wondering how many families are actually trying to do what we are??
Is it as hard as what I think it will be or will it be easier then what I think it will be?? It is all so confusing!!
We are as low additive as we can get without being too restrictive. Google "Additive Alert" great website and book and "FAILSAFE" which is more restrictive. There are a lot of products out there you just have to reda labels carefully - it does get quicker the more you do it!!
It is actually VERY easy to do this.
The trick is eating as macrobiotically as possible. Basically, make everything yourself, do not use jars of sauces, processed foods and junk.
Whole grains, fresh fruits and veg and organic meats.
Not the cheapest sometimes but definately worth the effort
We go through phases with it. We will go completely additive free for a month, and low preservative which is including natural preservatives like salicylites, then we will allow some in but still restricted to low attitive.
I found it is easy to do, when we allow some in its generally when someone else buys something and brings it here, or if I am having people over and we buy a packet of biscuits that aren't good.
I just get used to what we buy and I make most of our food from scratch. We don't buy take out, but tonight we are getting a BBQ chook from our local free range/organic chook shop.... so I reckon it is the lessor of evils out there... with a salad and mashed potatoes. Thats the closest to take out we get.
If I feel that we are eating too many additives, we go off all of them for a month and detox that way.
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