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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whew sorry, let me try again, I'm so incoherent! Ok, I have general anxiety with our food supply...
Meat- I read "skinny bitch" when I was younger, and though I never became a vegan, I'm always haunted by the descriptions of cruelty and the low health standards in American slaughterhouses. I've cut way back on meat because I always remember the author saying that the animals, before they die, are terrified and suffering, and you are consuming that terror and suffering. She also goes into the hormones fed to the animals, as well as the antibiotics. This protein issue of mine also crosses over into anything dairy. 
Rice-I've noted the arsenic issue, and also read that bleached white rice is devoid of nutrition and just empty calories, and same with bread and pasta. And all these grains have gut irritants. And crap-gluten-gotta be honest, I don't know what gluten even is-but it's bad for me right?
Fruits-now I'm hearing FRUIT is bad for you because it has too much sugar?  And pesticides of course. 
Veggies-yay someting we all agree is ok! Except for the pesticides of course. And corn-bad bad genetically modified corn. 
And of course everything "processed". The yogurt, pasta sauce, etc with the added sugar, chemical additives, shelf stabilizers... 
All in all I feel like the baby and I should just be drinking kombacha all day. And eating veggies-organic-of course. [/quote]

I get it, OP.  I'm right there with you.  But there's a line where you can worry about this and be sane/insane and where you let things go for awhile.  Dial it back to a point where you're sane and healthy.  Look at us... we're using the microwave (we hadn't in 5 years before DD), buying frozen dinners, and letting her eat that microwaveable mac and cheese.  And we're attending dinner parties and potlucks without having anxiety attacks.  It's not where we'd like to be, where we know how to be, but we're functioning and sane.  And fed.  Before DD, I could wipe myself out after 24 hours of not being near food I thought was acceptable to eat, because it took so damn long to prepare everything by hand. [/quote]

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