cut down on eating processed food

I was texting my mom today and she said that she is going to try the Daniel Diet. I was curious and looked it up and it sounds like a great way to start cutting out processed foods! I think I’m going to read up on it some more and give it a try!

I was in a siuation where I had to eat but only had a microwave and no time to cook in advance- so I bought a Lean Cusisine. When you’ve been eating less processed food, the sheer length of the ingredient lis is surprising. And the contents rather depressing. It didn’t taste too bad, though, and had lots of vegetable and fiber.

when you stop eating microwave plastic tray foods and takeout and cook all your meals. I hate doing dishes!

I thought, how bad for me could a salad with low fat dressing be? I don’t know about the nutritional aspects,
It was NOT good tasting . Some gloppy weirdly textured “chicken” that was hot ( who wants hot chicken on a salad?) and made the lettuce wilt. Soggy red peppers, dried out carrots, and I don’t want to know what sort of chemicals they added to the pea pods, but they tasted metallic and horrible. If I hadn’t gotten it to go, I’d have asked for my money back as I did not eat it. Why do I have to keep being taught the don’t go to McDonalds lesson?

I am going out to eat chicken wings, onion rings, and many gin and tonics. I don’t think that the organic yogurt and organic fruit I had for lunch balance this out.

Right now I am drinking Trader Joe’s Green Plant juice. It is fruit juice with different kinds of plant and vegetable matter. I never would have purchased it if I had not tried it in the store ( they’re good at that at TJ’s) due to the off-putting olive green color. It tastes much better than it looks, but I am drinking it out of a coffee cup so I don’t feel like I’m drinking algae. The texture is a little thick, too, but manageable. I guess I’ve had my RDA of chlorophyll for the day.

I bought and consumed – in one day- an entire box of Little Debbie snack cakes. Sickeningly sweet, full of hydrogenated fats and chemicals…and I ate every one. I can’t say I enjoyed them , though, which would have made the whole thing less sad. Even as I was eating them I thought about how much more pleasure I’d get from a piece of real cake, but $1.09 a box and no effort overcame my misgivings. Now I am full of regret and calories.

Peanut butter- or at least the kind I buy- is pretty healthy and has no scary additives, but it is not healthy if you eat 4 PB sandwiches, as I did today. Even if they were made with 8 grain bread. I just cannot control myself around peanut butter and I need to stop pretending that I can. Salt, fat, mmmm….

It is amazing how many products contain high fructose corn syrup and trans fats ( or both), and these are 2 things I want to concentrate on eliminating.

organic all natural pop-tarts ( excuse me- ” toaster pastries”) are still junk! I must not buy these anymore- maybe after 2 boxes I’ve sated whatever childhood nostalgia had me craving pop-tarts.