Allie’s Answers

There has to be a middle ground.

Waste-free lunches are a great way to be green, but what if you don’t have the time or kitchen skills to put together a completely waste-free, homemade lunch for your kids?  Or what if your kids are picky eaters, or are just begging for additions to their lunch that are more like what their friends are eating.

As someone who brought some pretty weird natural foods to school in her lunch box, and was ridiculed for them (In second grade, a kid in my class told the teacher I was eating puke at snack time.  It was hummus.), I can certainly appreciate that a little conventional looking pre-packaged food can go a long way in boosting a kid’s ego at lunch.  But it doesn’t have to be make-you-own or just cave in and send your kids to school with snack cakes full of partially hydrogenated oils and “fruit” snacks in neon colors.  There’s a good middle ground.

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My husband was looking for an afternoon snack to help him fuel up for his bike ride home, but a lot of the options in the grocery aisle didn’t pass my label reading test.

I did a little research, and here’s what I bought him on my last trip to the store.
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NancyPearlWannabe said:

“I want a diet soda that doesn’t have artificial sweetener in it. I guess that’s called Soda Water. Or iced tea.”

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Okay, so here’s the first installment of HFCS Free.  If you have a food you love and can’t find a good HFCS-free replacement, leave a comment or e-mail me at AlliesAnswers at gmail dot com, and I’ll try to find a substitute for you.  I’ll put up a new HFCS-free post every Thursday.

Noelle says:

“Bread was and has been the biggest disappointment for me. My grocery store sells a number of excellent local breads, but they don’t match the softness of the brand name breads. I’ll keep looking, though.”

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On Tuesday, when I asked for suggestions for my new HFCS-Free posts (first one coming up next), Noelle asked about High Fructose Corn Syrup free Ketchup.  Well, there’s an easy answer. (more…)

A lot of people mentioned having a hard time avoiding High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in foods.  I am really big on not eating HFCS, and have found tons of foods to replace the ones that list it as an ingredient.

If you have a food you love and can’t find a good HFCS-free replacement, leave a comment or e-mail me at AlliesAnswers at gmail dot com, and I’ll try to find a substitute for you.  I’ll put up HFCS-free posts on Thursdays.