This hasn't been mentioned over here yet so...

hippywife

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Wed Jan-28-09 07:43 PM
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This hasn't been mentioned over here yet so...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3710183

Makes me really glad we started reading labels and eliminating crap like this from our diet.

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NMDemDist2

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Wed Jan-28-09 08:39 PM
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1. i saw that

big shock eh??

HFCS is deadly

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hippywife

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Thu Jan-29-09 12:00 PM
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4. Not really.

Haven't been buying stuff with it for about three years now for other good reasons. This only justifies the choice.

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NMDemDist2

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Thu Jan-29-09 01:09 PM
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9. LOL I forgot the sarcasm smilie

:hi:

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Lucinda

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Wed Jan-28-09 08:43 PM
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2. We've become a lot more careful since my health problems kicked in but

Edited on Wed Jan-28-09 08:43 PM by Lucinda

I have been using Karo when I make sorbet. I need to try other alternatives. Corn Syrup is in sooooo many packaged foods, I'm glad we arent in the habit of eating a lot of premade stuff.

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hippywife

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Thu Jan-29-09 12:03 PM
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5. It really is amazing

Edited on Thu Jan-29-09 12:07 PM by hippywife

how many things you find it in! Bread crumb's for dog's sake! Alot of what's on the labels (and not required to be labeled) in addition to so called "natural flavoring" is what made me switch to doing so much scratch cooking and baking. I did some before but not it's nearly all of what we eat with only maybe a handful of exceptions.

I trust nothing anymore that's very far away from a whole food or a real ingredient. No artificial anything at all. And even then, I'm careful. It takes me hours to grocery shop.

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eridani

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Wed Jan-28-09 09:23 PM
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3. Honey is 40% fructose

Seems like you could use diluted honey in place of corn syrup in recipes requiring it.

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Tsiyu

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Thu Jan-29-09 12:16 PM
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6. It's crazy out there

in Manufactured Food Land.

Trying to figure out ways to educate the young person visiting me. She only buys really processed/overpackaged food.

I don't want to be a nag but I just don't like to ingest food made of fifteen ingredients I can't pronounce.

Thanks for the head's up

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hippywife

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Thu Jan-29-09 12:23 PM
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7. Try turning her on to

Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food if she's a reader. If nothing else, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser would even do it! It starts out as a history of the fast food industry and really ends up an indictment of the entire food industry.

Good luck! :hi:

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Tsiyu

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Thu Jan-29-09 12:45 PM
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8. Thanks for the suggestions

She's sensitive and I can be too blunt sometimes. Most of the kids know that and give it right back, but she is visiting so I am trying to withold my usual running commentary on the world. :)

The other night, my daughter came over. She is even more frugal/healthy diet/shopping choice making than I am. She started going off about her roomates and their wasteful, pre-packaged ways, so that opened the conversation.

I want to teach but not preach and it's damned hard when I have such strong feelings about the food I eat!

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Tab

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Fri Jan-30-09 06:29 AM
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10. I don't know how old you are

I'm 46. I remember in 8th grade my science teacher taking out samples of mercury so we could all check it out. It's a very cool metal, liquid metal at room temperature. We touched it, played with it, thought it was the neatest frickin' thing.

Probably like those old x-ray machines (flouroscopes, I believe) in shoe stores.

You won't see that happening anytime again.

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hippywife

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Fri Jan-30-09 07:13 AM
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11. I'm old enough.

Edited on Fri Jan-30-09 07:25 AM by hippywife

I'm 50 (you really didn't think I was going to put my age in the header, did you? LOL) and I don't recall any of my science teachers doing that. I do slightly recall an episode with a broken thermometer at home though. We couldn't afford to shop the high-end shoe stores so I never saw one of those x-ray machines, either.

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