I borrowed a couple of foods from my roommate to read the ingredients and found that in Rice Roni there are 30 ingredients and of those, more than half are chemical ingredients. The other food I looked at was Special K Cereal Bars, which have 41 ingredients and all but 10 were chemicals.
Because of all of the chemicals that are put in foods today it has become increasingly difficult for American's to eat healthy. I personally find it difficult to eat healthy at times, but because I am aware of the terrible things that are being put into foods, I try very hard to stay away from processed foods and eat only foods that I cook. I grew up in a household where we had family dinners and breakfast everyday and the only food you would find in the refrigerator or pantry were real foods with the occasional junk food. So once I moved out I found it easy to continue my eating habits that were instilled in me by my parents. From time to time I have weeks where I will get lazy and eat poorly rather than taking the time to make food, but the result of eating this way literally makes me sick, which puts me right back into the regimen of eating healthy once again.
I'm the same way. I agree it is very difficult to find good tasting food that isn't processed and filled with a lot of chemicals. I try and avoid these foods because like yourself, I am aware of how unhealthy these foods are for me. Especially when I just got home from a long day, the last thing i want to do is to take the time to cook a healthy dinner, so microwaving food seems like the better option. Very good post, it was interesting for me to read!
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