Something Shiny!

Here’s something I bet you didn’t know about me (well, okay, some of you knew this, but most of you didn’t): I make our own cereal. The cereal we eat for breakfast most days of the week, I make every two weeks or so. We made the decision a couple years ago to stop eating processed foods and, more importantly, to know more about what’s in the food we eat (read In Defense of Food, yo, and never look at your grocery store the same way again). What we learned was more than a little alarming. The crap that gets put into the food we Americans eat (is it the same elsewhere? I honestly don’t know) is horrifying. And no, I’m not talking about fingers and whatnot, a la The Jungle, but it’s still scary. And to what end? To support the corn industry? Because it’s cheaper? Because the FDA can’t say no to Big Soy? (I’m making that up; I don’t know if there’s a Big Soy.) Whatever the reason is that there’s HFCS, for example, in just about everything, I refuse to believe that it’s because it’s good for us. The ingredients in most commercial processed foods was enough to push us to make a change. And we started with cereal. I like knowing what, exactly, is in the food we eat. I like knowing that we’re in greater control of what goes into our bodies. And I like providing for our family, as banal as that sounds. Anyway! I didn’t mean to turn this into a soapbox discussion; I was just blogging about what I’m doing right now. So! ::clears throat:: What are you doing?

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