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Anonymous wrote:With all processed goods, you have to weigh the risks vs. the benfits of convenience. Almost all processed foods have a downside. Besides plastics, researchers are learning more about the downsides of oils like canola and soybean oil, and these are seemingly in ALL processed foods.

I posted earlier that if that was the worry just make the food yourself. I totally agree with this. It's a balance between convenience and health. Telling you a convenience food is healthy is marketing.

I have 3 kids, work and still make meals from scratch. One ingredient cooking/diet is a legit diet. Eat whole unprocessed foods.

Mac and cheese is one of the easiest dishes to make. I never understood why people purchase processed Mac and cheese. It can never be as good as it is when you make it from scratch. Millions of recipes.

Some of us who usually make from scratch like having the convenience of packaged foods occasionally. For example, I make lunch every morning before or in between meetings while my daughter is out with her nanny (I like for her to get the outdoor time). If I have unexpected things come up at work and can’t cook (which happens maybe once or twice a month) I like to have some pre-made foods available. Like chicken nuggets, or boxed Annie’s.

You lost me at “when my daughter is out with her nanny”.

What is confusing about that?

The pthalates are in the plastic. So if you’re making your own Mac and cheese from scratch, you need to make fresh pasta using flour that came out of a paper bag rather than noodles packaged in plastic, milk from a glass container rather than plastic jug, butter that didn’t come packaged in plastic, and cheese that you made yourself from the milk because I’ve never seen cheese not wrapped in plastic.

All Annie’s food is just organic junk food. I love the Mac and cheese, but it’s no better for you than Kraft. Annie’s granola bars, Bunny crackers, fruit snacks, etc...all processed crap food.

Anonymous wrote:If you are that concerned why would you buy your kid prepackaged food. Why not just make some noodles and choose yourself. Pasta is just egg, flour and water add cheese, butter and heavy cream. I'm sure foods have tons of carcinogens but it's a risk you take for convenience.

Oh, naive superior one. No one is adding phthalates to food. It comes into food through growing and processing - the tubes the milk goes through while being pumped from the cow, the packaging in the carton of cream, contaminants in the soil in which the wheat grows. Buying organic does not address these problems either. Unless you are growing your own wheat in tested, virgin soil and raising your own dairy cow, these chemicals are a fact of modern life. It is a problem that needs to be addressed at the supply chain, not consumer level, so kudos to Annie’s for trying.

I’ve heard this is because of how cows are milked—the tubes have phthalates in them. So the problem is not necessarily solved by “making it yourself.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all processed goods, you have to weigh the risks vs. the benfits of convenience. Almost all processed foods have a downside. Besides plastics, researchers are learning more about the downsides of oils like canola and soybean oil, and these are seemingly in ALL processed foods.

I posted earlier that if that was the worry just make the food yourself. I totally agree with this. It's a balance between convenience and health. Telling you a convenience food is healthy is marketing.

I have 3 kids, work and still make meals from scratch. One ingredient cooking/diet is a legit diet. Eat whole unprocessed foods.

What does this mean?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all processed goods, you have to weigh the risks vs. the benfits of convenience. Almost all processed foods have a downside. Besides plastics, researchers are learning more about the downsides of oils like canola and soybean oil, and these are seemingly in ALL processed foods.

I posted earlier that if that was the worry just make the food yourself. I totally agree with this. It's a balance between convenience and health. Telling you a convenience food is healthy is marketing.

I have 3 kids, work and still make meals from scratch. One ingredient cooking/diet is a legit diet. Eat whole unprocessed foods.

Mac and cheese is one of the easiest dishes to make. I never understood why people purchase processed Mac and cheese. It can never be as good as it is when you make it from scratch. Millions of recipes.

Some of us who usually make from scratch like having the convenience of packaged foods occasionally. For example, I make lunch every morning before or in between meetings while my daughter is out with her nanny (I like for her to get the outdoor time). If I have unexpected things come up at work and can’t cook (which happens maybe once or twice a month) I like to have some pre-made foods available. Like chicken nuggets, or boxed Annie’s.

You lost me at “when my daughter is out with her nanny”.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all processed goods, you have to weigh the risks vs. the benfits of convenience. Almost all processed foods have a downside. Besides plastics, researchers are learning more about the downsides of oils like canola and soybean oil, and these are seemingly in ALL processed foods.

I posted earlier that if that was the worry just make the food yourself. I totally agree with this. It's a balance between convenience and health. Telling you a convenience food is healthy is marketing.

I have 3 kids, work and still make meals from scratch. One ingredient cooking/diet is a legit diet. Eat whole unprocessed foods.

Mac and cheese is one of the easiest dishes to make. I never understood why people purchase processed Mac and cheese. It can never be as good as it is when you make it from scratch. Millions of recipes.

Some of us who usually make from scratch like having the convenience of packaged foods occasionally. For example, I make lunch every morning before or in between meetings while my daughter is out with her nanny (I like for her to get the outdoor time). If I have unexpected things come up at work and can’t cook (which happens maybe once or twice a month) I like to have some pre-made foods available. Like chicken nuggets, or boxed Annie’s.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all processed goods, you have to weigh the risks vs. the benfits of convenience. Almost all processed foods have a downside. Besides plastics, researchers are learning more about the downsides of oils like canola and soybean oil, and these are seemingly in ALL processed foods.

I posted earlier that if that was the worry just make the food yourself. I totally agree with this. It's a balance between convenience and health. Telling you a convenience food is healthy is marketing.

I have 3 kids, work and still make meals from scratch. One ingredient cooking/diet is a legit diet. Eat whole unprocessed foods.

Do you really make your own pasta and bread?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all processed goods, you have to weigh the risks vs. the benfits of convenience. Almost all processed foods have a downside. Besides plastics, researchers are learning more about the downsides of oils like canola and soybean oil, and these are seemingly in ALL processed foods.

I posted earlier that if that was the worry just make the food yourself. I totally agree with this. It's a balance between convenience and health. Telling you a convenience food is healthy is marketing.

I have 3 kids, work and still make meals from scratch. One ingredient cooking/diet is a legit diet. Eat whole unprocessed foods.

Mac and cheese is one of the easiest dishes to make. I never understood why people purchase processed Mac and cheese. It can never be as good as it is when you make it from scratch. Millions of recipes.

Anonymous wrote:With all processed goods, you have to weigh the risks vs. the benfits of convenience. Almost all processed foods have a downside. Besides plastics, researchers are learning more about the downsides of oils like canola and soybean oil, and these are seemingly in ALL processed foods.

I posted earlier that if that was the worry just make the food yourself. I totally agree with this. It's a balance between convenience and health. Telling you a convenience food is healthy is marketing.

I have 3 kids, work and still make meals from scratch. One ingredient cooking/diet is a legit diet. Eat whole unprocessed foods.

Anonymous wrote:I understand they found the highest levels in cheese products, but I’ve often wondered about plastic packed produce, fresh salad tubs, frozen vegetables and fruits in plastic bags. Even the tetra paks have plastic in the inner lining.

Any info on those?

Yes, in general the others have it. We try to buy things that aren't packaged in plastic and also bring our own produce bags.

With all processed goods, you have to weigh the risks vs. the benfits of convenience. Almost all processed foods have a downside. Besides plastics, researchers are learning more about the downsides of oils like canola and soybean oil, and these are seemingly in ALL processed foods.

I understand they found the highest levels in cheese products, but I’ve often wondered about plastic packed produce, fresh salad tubs, frozen vegetables and fruits in plastic bags. Even the tetra paks have plastic in the inner lining.

Any info on those?

Anonymous wrote:This is why my kids got kraft and or Velveta. LOL

Hm...... you are funny. We need funny. Since you are not smart then at least you got gift of making others laugh.