It is incredible how many toxins can be found at the grocery store. This also applies to the health food stores as they try to expand their market reach to include MSG loaded soy foods and market them as low fat and healthy.

I used to buy Late July Organic crackers for my kids thinking that they where a healthier choice for them. What I did not realize was that they use soy lecithin and it was not “organic” soy lecithin. Soy is a GMO and highly dangerous.

My food shopping policy now is to buy 98% of my food in its original state and not in a box, bag or bottle with the exception of ecologically harvested canned salmon, organic tomato paste, vinigars and oils.

This video brings to light exactly how I feel when I go shopping. It brings to light what has happened to our food and what is added to our food..

• The amount of (GMO) soy
• The amount of (GMO) corn
• aspartame and splenda sweeteners
• food dies
• irridation
• aluminum pans
• food additives
• hydrogenated oils
• canned food
• hormones/nitrates in meat

Warning: this video contains some profanities.

Video by the Truthergirls Karen and Sonia.

I have my own thoughts on how this kind of food has ended up in out grocery stores and in our homes. One of them being that there is a lot of profit to be made from sick people. But that is my opinion.

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I am very lucky that I can do my grocery shopping without having to bring my children. The few times that they do come with me, the trip becomes quite stressful.

Why?

Let’s just say even though my kids do not watch a lot of commercials they are still very much attracted to the cartoon figures on the boxes of all the cakes, crackers, chocolate bars and cookies.

I had an experience with my youngest daughter the week before Easter. The store shelves were lined with chocolate bunnies and chocolate cartoon characters. It was crazy trying to get through the store with a child crying for all this junk food. My kids never have this kind of food and if I do let my kids have sweets it has to be homemade with good quality ingredients. This way they get to help, have some fun and learn how to read and follow recipes.

But nevertheless, even though this kind of food never enters our house – my dear daughter wanted junk food very badly.

In the grocery stores, it is the appeal of the box or wrapper that initially makes us buy the product. Kids are the same and are drawn to cartoons, yummy looking pictures, sweets and bright colors.

If your child asks for junk do you cave in and buy it? Do you bring it home and have a treat yourself?

One day I was walking through the aisles of the grocery store when I noticed a preteen girl putting junk food in her family’s grocery cart. As her mother was moving the cart down the aisle, she was putting all the junk food back on the shelves! Could you do this?

When my daughter had this little grocery store episode, our conversation went a little like this…

“Mom, can I have this chocolate?”

“No”

“Mom, can I have this candy?”

“No”

“Mom, can I have that bunny…?”

“No”

“Mom, can I have those cookies…?”

“No”

Then she came across some non food stuffs and asked to have a disposable camera. And I said “yes”.

This was totally unexpected and she was thrilled to have this disposable camera she could play with. With that camera in her hand, the junk food aisles disappeared in her eyes.

What do you think?

• How do you handle your child’s junk food cravings?
• What do you think about how food is being marketed to children?
• Do your kids have a say in what food you buy?

Feel free to share your thoughts,

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