Food Additives & Kids

I *try* to feed DS organic food, mainly becuase of allergies, but also becuase of all the additives that are in food these days. No wonder so many bubbas have allergies, ezcema etc with all the crap thats in our foods these days!

Oh wow Kel that's awesome! I'll look for that book too :-) And I can pester you with questions :-)

ABSOLUTELY!

You know how I went to Oz on hols, my friend with 3 kids saw Alia & went wow she's so good now & has cut out all nasty's out of their diet & is rapt how her kids are now. Last time Alia & her daughter absolutely destroyed the little girls bedroom, they were both as bad as each other.

Oh wow thanks :-) I know for certain that some foods make my kids go nuts in a major way - one that I am aware of is Mc Donalds. It's either the food or something in the Keri Juice but they bounce off the walls and get so alert from the stuff. So obviously there are some additives that cause obvious reactions but there must be so many causing milder reactions that aren't noticable until eliminating them.

I was even shocked to learn white sugar is processed with chemicals and that raw sugar (most natural form of sugar) has some substantial nutrition - for sugar that is!

Yes that's the one Jazzy!

Yes it does - heaps of recipes! I found it quite interesting - it has certainly reopened my interest!!

I told DF last night I will be making several changes that will affect him too and he was cool with that. It actually won't be much of a shock either to be honest. We don't buy fizzy drinks etc but it will effect cooking using flavour bases, ice creams, etc... anything overly processed.

I imagine there will be a lot of canned foods to avoid too but I will still keep a stockpile for our survival kit that I am still yet to make!!

Wow thanks for that list, I don't even think about these things (we don't have fizzy drinks though and DD only drinks milk or water). Have sent the link to DH to print out for me.

Yeah we did it, mostly, I started when pregnant with S then got better when his allergies came to light and have kept it up.

It's important to remember it's not about missing out on things just doing things different. Like make your own ice blocks with fruit and juice that you know is ok, buy organic yoghurt instead, it's not that much more expensive if you buy big tubs. We still have sweets, we just get the natural confectionary ones and so on (that's the treat they have for doing wees on the potty).
Also some brands of meal bases/sauces are ok. Dolmio for example took all the crap out of theirs a few years ago and the woolworths select ones are sometimes ok as well, depending you do need to check, their whole range isn't ok.
Lots of the canned stuff is ok, although I actually worry about the stuff they line the cans with rather than the contents themselves, but I still use tin toms and baked beans and I have some soups as well. Watties do seem pretty good, there soups don't have any additives in, but probably still not as good as home made soup. Tinned fruit always annoys me, if it's fruit salad then it has colours cos they colour the cherries I mean really do they need to be glowing red!

I would say make the big changes first and then iron out the little stuff, that's what we did, just slowly building on it, I think if you try to do one big switch all of sudden it can be too hard.