Freaked out about added sugar in everything and American standard diet

[Anonymous]

As I take LO into solid foods, I'm really freaked out by the basics-even rice, pasta, bread, and milk have so much EXTRA sugar added to them. It wasn't like that when I was growing up. I'm scouring labels trying to find stuff that has the least amounts of added sugar. I make things like marinara sauce from scratch but I'm a normal person and I don't bake my own bread or make my own pasta. Anyone have a website or resource or store recommendation for groceries that are less processed/have less sugar?

[Anonymous]

Sugar in rice? WTF are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Where are you shopping? The staples we buy, rice, pasta, bread, and milk, also meats, cheese, fruits, vegetables, do not have extra sugar added to them. The "Standard American Diet" is not what many/most DCUMers eat or feed their children.

[Anonymous]

Rice has sugar added?

[Anonymous]

MILK has sugar added? Cow's milk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MILK has sugar added? Cow's milk?

The Horizon milk at Barnes and Noble comes in chocolate or vanilla, both with sugar added. The only way to get plain milk is to ask for it in a cup, made by the barista.

[Anonymous]

Even regular Wegman's store brand wheat bread lacks an added sugar these days... what are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MILK has sugar added? Cow's milk?

The Horizon milk at Barnes and Noble comes in chocolate or vanilla, both with sugar added. The only way to get plain milk is to ask for it in a cup, made by the barista.

Although I hope OP is not planning on transitioning her baby to vanilla Horiizon milk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MILK has sugar added? Cow's milk?

The Horizon milk at Barnes and Noble comes in chocolate or vanilla, both with sugar added. The only way to get plain milk is to ask for it in a cup, made by the barista.

Buy milk @ grocery stores? Why would you be buying milk at a book store?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MILK has sugar added? Cow's milk?

The Horizon milk at Barnes and Noble comes in chocolate or vanilla, both with sugar added. The only way to get plain milk is to ask for it in a cup, made by the barista.

So you're planning to feed your child solely on flavored milk from the Barnes and Noble cafe? The good news is that they won't be around for much longer. Disaster averted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MILK has sugar added? Cow's milk?

The Horizon milk at Barnes and Noble comes in chocolate or vanilla, both with sugar added. The only way to get plain milk is to ask for it in a cup, made by the barista.

That's the ONLY way? They expect you to ask for it? What is wrong with them? Why do they make it so hard? And what do you mean, "made by the barista"?

[Anonymous]

Ah crap I'm sorry. I'm mixing my sugar woes with my woes about the food supply. For milk, I'm freaked about about growth hormones in cows. For rice, I'm freaked out about arsenic content. I'm sorry ya'll.

[Anonymous]

Your child will eat what you eat. For better or for worse. The notion many people have that they need to keep their child as a tiny pure cherub subsisting only on the most innocuous organic foods is rubbish. Let them eat what you eat. Or the closest approximation of it you can find that's suitable for their teeth/digestive abilities.

Release your child of the burden of needing to be "pure" and unspoiled by sugar. He's a modern American. he needn't eat like an Amish farmboy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your child will eat what you eat. For better or for worse. The notion many people have that they need to keep their child as a tiny pure cherub subsisting only on the most innocuous organic foods is rubbish. Let them eat what you eat. Or the closest approximation of it you can find that's suitable for their teeth/digestive abilities.

Release your child of the burden of needing to be "pure" and unspoiled by sugar. He's a modern American. he needn't eat like an Amish farmboy.

That's the problem...modern Americans are nutrient deficient, obese, sick, sugar addicted, etc

[Anonymous]

Buy organic, shop at Whole Foods, read all labels.