Join a Food Club

Here's an interesting idea I was reading about just yesterday:  a food club.  What's a food club?  A food club is a group of friends, family and/or neighbors who contribute a certain amount of money per month into a kitty so that natural foods can be purchased from distributors and local farmers at a wholesale price.  By pooling a little bit of time and finances, hight quality and healthy food can be purchased for an overall savings of 25%.  The food is delivered weekly to a central dropoff location and each member gets their share of the goodies.

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  Natural and healthy food is expensive (just go to Whole Foods for sticker shock).  If you and your friends would like to form your own food group, it's not that difficult and can be a lot of fun!  Check out foodclub.org or localfoodclub.org today and start your own foodie group!

Food Colorants, Sugars and Children with Attention Disorders

Recently, it has been theorised that children who are hyperactive should not eat foods containing artifiicial food colorants (just go to a candy store or the cereal aisle of any grocery store - a sugar and artificial 'everything' nightmare). The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has proposed that the  FDA ban color additives as well as require warning labels on the packaging until a ban can be put into practice.  Every Day Health has just published a list of foods that contain artificial colorants.  These foods have been listed because one might not think there would be 'bad' ingredients in them.  I thought it prudent to share this information with you.  Please pass it on:
Grocery Items
Hunt’s Snack Pudding, Vanilla (Yellow 5, Yellow 6) Yoplait Whips Light & Fluffy (Yellow 5, Blue 1) Quaker Oatmeal to Go, Apples & Cinnamon (Yellow 6) Post Honeycomb cereal (Yellow 5) Eggo Blueberry Waffles (Blue 2, Red 40) Betty Crocker Cheesy Lasagna with Beef (Yellow 5, Yellow 6) Oscar Mayer Lunchables Pizza & Treatza (Blue 1, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Red 40) Lean Pockets Ham & Cheddar (Yellow 5, Yellow 6) Hostess Blueberry Streusel Muffins (Blue 2, Red 40) Edy’s Classic Real Strawberry Ice Cream (Blue 1, Red 40) Minute Maid Lemonade (Yellow 5) Pillsbury Flaky Cinnamon Twists with Glaze (Yellow 5, Red 40) Duncan Hines Whipped Frosting Chocolate (Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1)
Restaurant Items
McDonald’s Spicy Buffalo Sauce (Red 40) Burger King Mott’s Strawberry Flavored Applesauce (Red 40) Wendy’s Dill Pickles (Yellow 5, Blue 1) KFC Sweet and Spicy Wings (Red 40) KFC Potato Salad (Blue 1) Subway Red Wine Vinaigrette (Red 40, Blue 1) Jack in the Box Mozzarella Cheese Sticks (Yellow 5, Yellow 6)
Courtesy:  Eating Well Online

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  Children don't need candy, it's full of sugar, rots their teeth and then you can't figure out why they have no attention span while they're on a sugar high.  Processed foods and foods with added sugar shouldn't be in the cupboard or refrigerators.  Bake your own cakes and muffins, make your own lemonade...the food will taste better, you and and the kids will eat better and you will have better control of your product and the sugars in them.  Muffins should not be green...if you want coloring, buy some crayons.