Musings on Clean Eating and Half & Half

Over the years since surgery I have started practicing Clean Eating as much as I can.  I funny thing happened with the Half & Half I buy for my coffee.  Normally I buy Organic Valley brand Half & Half.  Ingredients (not surprisingly) reads: Milk, Cream.

Recently we had a guests over for dinner and Panna Cotta was on the menu and to reduce the cost of the meal I got store brand Half & Half which, one would expect was Milk & Cream, right?  Nope: Milk, Cream, Sodium Citrate, and Disodium Phosphate.  I don't know about you, but I just don't get enough Disodium Phosphate in MY diet.

I don't know about you but after surgery I'm struck by the difference between food and "edible food-like substances."  I eat less now, I might as well try and make it the best.

Yeah, it's a real eye opener when you start (or get back to) reading labels...My husband has become a real label reader and questions EVERYTHING! So we're a team on my eating. His eating has changed a bunch too. I think it takes us (well, him) a month to eat a loaf of bread now. And it's alot more expensive too because I don't buy the cheap stuff. I buy the GOOD stuff even if I'm not going to eat it.

I loved whta you said "edible food-like substances." I'm going to use that more!

omg.... you are hitting the nail on the head w/ this post!

We are talking about just that in the nutrition course im currently taking.
Because of that - it's got me looking at the the INGREDIANTS - not just the Nutritional label.
Did you know frozen veggies are chuck full of sodium?? i didnt, until last night when i was searching for something USA or LOCALLY grown (which i guess we dont grow anything here as everything i checked out was a product of Mexico - except the greens of course - event the "organically grown" was a product of Mexico!!) which was disappointing, so i switched over to the frozen veggies only to find them loaded w/sodium & other stuff that you would never think would be in veggies!!!

Its very frustrating indeed.