I read an interesting article yesterday about how to cut processed foods from our diets. The first tip discussed how quitting cold turkey may not be the easiest for everyone. That's me for sure. I've done well heading in that direction but processed foods still make it into my diet. For example, I have not yet been able to give up my Bailey's coffee creamer. I just LOVE it! But, I did purchase a bottle of the Coffeemate Natural vanilla. So once I open it we'll see if I find it to be just as good. The list of ingredients is definitely shorter!
But I digress. Back to the article. One thing it said for helping to move in the direction of cutting processed foods is to look at your foods and decide which ones are "real", "almost real", "barely real" and "not real". More specifically, they used orange juice as an example: freshly squeezed being "real", juice not made from concentrate "almost real", juice made from concentrate as "barely real" and orange flavored drinks and sodas as "not real". Then, when you are shopping, try taking one step to the "left" in your decisions to head toward better foods and away from processed foods.
So I'm going to start using that tip in my menu planning and shopping. Maybe I can find myself heading to the left and improving my diet even more!
There were 4 tips in the article, but I really liked this first one. If you'd like to read the entire article, here is the link: http://www.naturalnews.com/039249_processed_foods_diet_tips.html
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