Positive Ingredients, Better Certifications, and Cleaner Choices for Our Family So far in this series, we have talked a lot about what to watch out for. We have talked about greenwashing, natural flavors, marketing claims, and food ingredients our family tries to avoid. But clean living is not only about what we say no to.Continue reading “Day 5: What We DO Look For in Food”
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Day 4: Food Ingredients We Choose to Avoid
Our Family’s Personal “No List” and Why We Read Labels Carefully When I first started reading food labels, I felt overwhelmed. I would pick up a product that looked healthy on the front, flip it over, and suddenly see a long list of ingredients I did not recognize. Some were artificial sweeteners. Some were dyes.Continue reading “Day 4: Food Ingredients We Choose to Avoid”
Day 1: Why I Started Reading Labels
I did not start this journey because I wanted to become picky, difficult, or afraid of everything. I started because I had to. For years, I dealt with different health struggles that made me begin asking deeper questions. Gut health issues. Hormone issues. Learning about my MTHFR gene mutation and realizing that my body mayContinue reading “Day 1: Why I Started Reading Labels”
Living Life with a Purpose 