Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get Food Additives Out
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Today we continue our unique take on spring cleaning with Katie from Kitchen Stewardship’s Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the Junk Out. This week’s topic is eliminating food additives from our diets.
Head on over to Kitchen Stewardship, where Lenetta from Nettacow is sharing information and resources about common food additives and why you may want to avoid them.
I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I truly am a kitchen dunce. I have the unique ability to ruin one of our family’s favorite meals the 15th time I’ve made it even though I’ve never had trouble before. I over-think every aspect of cooking (which is why I love the blog Cooking for Engineers!), and that often results in disaster.
Unfortunately, that means that we eat more processed food than I care to admit. While we’re making changes to the type of skin care and beauty products we use and even the ingredients we buy, I know I still have a long way to go.
So today I want to share with you surprisingly easy make-from-scratch recipes that are helping me in my journey to cook more and better for our family (but for the record, my kids are eating mac ‘n cheese from the box right now):
:: Homemade Pizza in 30 Minutes or Less from Money Saving Mom
**I mentioned this one over the weekend, but we really, really love it. I substitute 1.5 cups of white flour with whole wheat flour, and I hope to continue to increase that as we get used to it.
:: Homemade Pancakes
**I’ve also started substituting more than half of the flour in this recipe with whole wheat flour.
:: Homemade Tomato Sauce from Simple Bites
:: Homemade Alfredo Sauce from All Recipes
:: Homemade Muffin Mix from Simple Bites
:: Easy Homemade Granola from Hillbilly Housewife
Lenetta is also sharing tips for eliminating food additives from your diet. No matter where you are in the process, she’s got tips for you! While there, you can link up your own story, recipes or questions.
Next week, we’ll talk about CAFOs with Kelly from The Kitchen Kop.
Do you have a surprisingly easy from-scratch recipe to share? I’m all ears!
Thanks for the links. I have been wanting to try homemade granola. We have been cutting back on the boxed foods. I still make some, not as much as I used to. I’m trying to do more fresh foods. It’s all in the planning.
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I can’t wait to check out the Cooking for Engineer’s blog! Thanks for sharing.
I too have been trying to do better at what I buy. My husband is a complete packaged food freak, so when he does the shopping that’s all he gets. I went shopping yesterday, spent $150 on stuff to actually MAKE meals with and he tells me that he couldn’t even tell I went to the store (b/c the cabinet isn’t overflowing w/boxes I’m sure).
Part of my reason for trying to steer clear of packaged goods is because of the sodium. Packaged food has so much sodium in it as a preservative. I have been having ringing in my ears and hearing problems for several years and my ENT said I have to limit salt in my diet to help with the fluid imbalance causing it. Funny as it sounds (no pun intended), I really can tell when I’ve had a good salt day or not! Sodium is only one additive, and I wish I could do better at adding in whole grains & wheat. Maybe that will be next once I get my hearing straight!
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Thanks so much for linking up! I actually have an entire category for “kitchen incidents”… sigh. :>) And thanks for the reminder to visit Cooking for Engineers – it’s been a while since I’ve poked around over there!
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I too appreciate the links. Homemade pizza sounds heavenly!
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