What You See Isn’t What You Get In Processed Food

6 March 20161 January 2022 ~ Carrie

Whipping_Cream_Carrageenan What in the world is carrageenan doing in heavy whipping cream?? When we buy “heavy whipping cream”, we expect that it contain only that – heavy whipping cream! Apparently, that’s just a fantasy in today’s food culture.

When the runt of Ava’s litter needed hand-feeding, we ran out to the local grocery store to buy the needed supplies. This was a store that offers “natural” and organic food, along with a heck of a lot of conventional food. Fortunately, goat milk was available (though not raw, of course). No organic heavy whipping cream was available, though several other conventional ones were. Continue reading “What You See Isn’t What You Get In Processed Food” →

Our Convenience Culture Precludes Cooking

16 February 2016 ~ Carrie

In this profit-driven, “keeping up with the Joneses” world of insensate consumerism, we sometimes (maybe even often) end up doing things without really considering whether those things are sensible or good for us. Many people eat processed food now, almost exclusively, and the primary reason is convenience. We buy bread from the grocery store rather than making it, even though homemade bread is less expensive and, lacking the additives and preservatives of store bread, healthier. And the fragrance of fresh-baked bread…heavenly. Continue reading “Our Convenience Culture Precludes Cooking” →