Grocery Store Items You Should Never Buy Again (Plus the good alternative swaps!)Earlier this month on my Facebook page, I asked you to share your biggest “ah- ha” moment when you started to read ingredient lists. I asked this question because I’m curious about what opened your eyes to the processed chemicals the food industry is dumping in our food. There were over 1,5. Facebook to my question, and I tried to read every single one of them.
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I found your comments insightful, really encouraging, and some were really funny! I’m glad to see that so many of you are changing your eating habits and reading ingredient lists! I saw several recurring ah- ha moments (the same ones I had when I started my journey), so I am summarizing the top 1. You might even see your own ah- ha moment quoted below! If you didn’t already know about any of these major offenses at the grocery store, this will also give you tips for what to look out for next time you’re shopping. Grocery Store Items You Should Never Buy Again: 1. Same with everything that adds chemical for coloring.
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It’s just WRONG” ~ Sara“Pickles started a food change in my house when I realized my children couldn’t even eat a pickle without eating yellow #4 & #5. Totally changed how we eat!” ~ Tracy“Yellow #5 in my Pickles? Why on God’s green earth is that in there?!!” ~ Carrin“There’s Yellow- 5 in Mt Olive dill pickles!!” ~ Josh and Erika“Food dyes. It’s even in pickles! Couldn’t understand that one.
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Grandmas pickles were always green and she never used yellow #6” ~ Becky“This week it was Vlasic dill pickles, which we usually keep a giant jar of. Why do pickles need food coloring?” ~ Julie“Dyes. Especially items like food coloring in pickles.
Um, WHY?” ~ Heather“Pickles have yellow #6! Why??” ~ Amber“Why do we insist on putting artificial colors in everything?!! Pickles aren’t supposed to be fluorescent!!! Nature colors things beautifully on its own!” ~ Chels. Lyn“Food dye in pickles.
Tina“Relish. Blech!!!” ~ Kim“Omg pickles?” ~ Vanessa. Recently I looked at every single jar of pickles in a conventional grocery store, and only found one brand that didn’t contain artificial yellow food dye. Of course, there is no real reason to add dye to pickles, as it’s just used to make them look prettier and gives us no other benefits.
Artificial colors are linked to health issues and have been banned or require a warning labels in several other countries – so food manufacturers often take them out of their products in other countries. Most pickles contain Yellow #5 or #6, which have been shown to contribute to childhood behavioral problems. Seriously??? Hidden MSG in “healthy” soup?? Ugh!!!” ~ Andrea“High fructose corn syrup in canned and boxed tomato soup. I couldn’t find any available product without sugar, so I had to make my own!” ~ Sara“When I realized that the chicken bullion I put in my soup was basically a block of msg.” ~ Kelly“Just how awful most canned and boxed foods are. And how extensive the naughty list is.
I used to keep “cream of” soups in the pantry and use them in my casseroles. I just can’t bring myself to do that anymore.” ~ Christine“Campbell’s chicken and stars soup – shocked it has High fructose corn syrup and MSG! Never giving this to my kids again!” ~ Candice“Soy in 9. Melanie. MSG (aka Monosodium Glutamate) is a really common ingredient in packaged soup, along with hidden MSG ingredients like hydrolyzed protein and autolyzed yeast extract. These flavor enhancers trick your brain into eating more than you should and have been linked to headaches, obesity, depression, and mental disorders.
Here’s a recipe for one of my favorites – carrot ginger soup. They all have soybean oil!!! And basically how EVERYTHING has soy in it” ~ Sierra“Gluten in salad dressings” ~ Davi“Yellow food dye in Italian salad dressing. Why?!?!” ~ Neeka“Can’t eat salad dressings because of soy/canola oils. I now must get over it and make my own.” ~ Norma“MSG is in a lot of foods even salad dressings no wonder I was getting migraines!
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I’m highly sensitive to it” ~ Caroline“That nearly every salad dressing has Xanthan gum or guar gum in it.” ~ Susan“SOYBEAN OIL and/ or canola in every single salad dressing or mayonnaise!! We just make our own now.” ~ Melissa. This is why I make my own salad dressing. You might be surprised to know that even salad dressings that say they are made with olive oil (like Wishbone Olive Oil Vinaigrette) typically contain soybean oil as a main ingredient. Almost all store- bought salad dressings also contain emulsifier ingredients to help them stay blended on the shelf, but don’t do anything good for your health. Better Store- Bought Alternatives: Raw Foodz Salad Dressing (not available everywhere), Hilary’s Eat Well Salad Dressing & Wilderness Family Naturals Salad Dressing.
If you are a Food Babe Eating Guide subscriber, you’ll get a new (and easy) salad dressing recipe every month as part of the plan. Check it out here. Food manufacturers use the ingredient as a commercial dough conditioner, meant to change the texture of breads and baked goods.” ~ Arthur“High fructose corn syrup in bread.” ~ Sean“Color and corn fructose in my 1. Argh” ~ Vanessa“GMO corn syrup in bread.” ~ Krystl“High fructose corn syrup in “light” wheat bread.” ~ Katie“Bread!
Such a simple food is now a health hazard if purchased in most grocery stores.” ~ Farmhouse Blues Interiors“High fructose corn syrup and the long list of ingredients that go into bread.” ~ Arushi“Once I started noticing all the products (Baked items/Breads) that have Azodicarbonamide in them. Since quitting eating foods with that my respiratory issues have gone away. SO glad I found out about that horrible, unnecessary ingredient being put in food.” ~ Trae“Bread! It should have maybe 5!
Egh!” ~ Jacqueline“How about store bought bread?! Can you believe all of the “stuff” that is in it?! Homemade is sooooo much better for you. Time consuming, yes, but way better for you!” ~ Darcy. It’s nearly impossible to find bread at the store without dough conditioners (like the yoga mat chemical azodicarbonamide), added sugars, artificial colors and GMOs – which is ridiculous because it really only takes 4 ingredients to make bread. Although I don’t eat a lot of bread, when I do I don’t want to be subjected to unnecessary and harmful ingredients.
Here’s a list of more clean ingredient breads. Omg???!!!!!!! Switched to organic half and half this week.” ~ Homaira“Coffee creamer. So gross to even think about how much of that I’ve consumed!” ~ Julie“Coffee creamer. I now make my own with all organic ingredients and couldn’t be happier!” ~ Cara“Coffee creamer! I was drinking it every morning in my organic coffee creamer!” ~ Kate“Creamers with carrageenan!!” ~ Brandi. When I found out that Coffee- Mate Non- Dairy Creamer’s primary ingredient was partially hydrogenated oil I was disgusted. Millions of people are dumping deadly trans fat into their coffee every morning.
Sure, they only use a bit in their coffee, but would anyone pour themselves a full glass of it? Of course not. Yet, they’ll eventually consume the entire container. This is the perfect example of why I think the motto “Everything in Moderation” is bogus. A FDA loophole allows Coffee- Mate to claim that it has no trans fat because it contains less than 0. According to the CDC, trans fats are linked to 7,0. Better Store- Bought Alternatives: Coconut milk – it’s thick and creamy and most only contain 1 or 2 ingredients if you stick to the culinary version like Natural Value and Native Forest. You can also make your own coconut milk by combining 1/4 cup coconut manna and 4 cups water into a blender.
Blend on high for 1- 2 mins and keep milk in an air tight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. I was so upset I gave my kids this after I read what’s in it.” ~ Jennifer“Baby formula. For some the first ingredient is high fructose corn syrup. Ugh !” ~ Mary“Baby formula really made me angry when it had to become my daughters main source of food!!” ~ Krista“Corn Syrup in organic baby formula” ~ Carolina“Baby formula!
Poor little ones! The victims of industry.” ~ Alle“Domestic baby formula. After I stopped breastfeeding at six months I wanted to find an organic formula that was free from ingredients that I discovered infants should not ingest.
I was disgusted by what was included in the ingredients – even organic formula. I now purchase a formula from the U.
K. Even organic formulas aren’t perfect, and can contain carrageenan, synthetic preservatives, refined sugars with detectible levels of arsenic, and DHA extracted with hexane. As put in this guest post by Nutrition expert, Charlotte Vallaeys other options include donor milk and this recipe from the Weston A. Price Foundation. Better Store- Bought Alternative: Baby’s Only Organic Formula and Hi. PP Organic Formula.
Wtf.” ~ Hillary“I can’t believe gmo corn and soy is in everything!!! Please look at tuna. Why does it need soy?” ~ Christie“Tuna “packed in water”–which is actually broth, which contains soy!” ~ Diane“Soy in everything!! Even my tuna! WTH???” ~ Linz. Tuna is not a main staple in my diet because the practices largely used in the industry aren’t sustainable and are endangering marine species. Couple that with the fact that mainstream tuna brands typically pack their tuna in a soy- based vegetable broth, and not actually in “water” like it says on the front of the can.
If you like to occasionally eat tuna, seek out a brand from a sustainable fishery that uses pole & line (and troll- caught) fishing methods, preferably from North American waters and packed without additives in BPA- free cans. When tuna are pole & line caught they are younger and much smaller, so they do not have the high mercury content that is found in most regular tuna. Better Store- Bought Alternative: American Tuna (brand) MSC Certified Sustainably Caught Albacore Tuna and Seafare Wild- Caught Tuna. Went cold turkey 4 years ago and haven’t been tempted once since that day.