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Natural foods
We have been eating more "natural" and I was wondering what things you have found to be tasty that are more natural. We have gotten away from a lot of the boxed/bagged type things and are trying to eat brown rice, whole wheat pasta. I like the Quorn products, but still have not gotten DH on board with those. I am not going to go hardcore or stop eating out, but just want to take small steps in a more natural direction.
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Re: Natural foods
Clomid + Met = BFP#1 12/27/10, missed MC discovered 2/9/11, d&c 2/11/11, 10w3d
Natural cycle (just Met) = BFP#2 6/3/11, Baby A arrived 2/16/12
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We do most of our shopping around the perimeter of the store - produce, meats, dairy, frozen foods (like bagged veggies).
Really, I just look at ingredients - if something has a million ingredients that I can't pronounce, I might skip over it for something else. And I don't really fall for the whole organic / natural / healthy for you type labels. They can be really misleading. Go for foods that have whole grains (listed as the 1st or 2nd ingredient) instead of whole wheat, etc.. Buy things like steel cut oatmeal instead of instant, barley, etc.
On labels, I put less stock in "low fat" and more into food that has lower sugar and salt. Often, when they lower the fat in something, they make up the difference by upping the sugar content - not good.
Look at the ingredients in regular old Hellman's mayo. Then look at the ingredients in the low fat mayo. I'll be using the regular mayo, thanks.
If you're trying to go natural, you might want to read the book Skinny B*tch. It's a quick read and gives a lot of hints and tips about what ingredients to look out for and which "organic" labels to trust (spoiler: the USDA label isn't the one to trust)
The end dictate of the book is to go vegan, but my H and I adopted just a portion of the suggestions and we really noticed a difference in how we feel. I think any effort to avoid artificial foods is commendable! One of the cheap and painless things we did was buy free range organic eggs and milk.