So as you head to the store today to get items to make your favorite foods for tonight and tomorrow do yourself a favor and read your labels!
This is why I read everything now and use the Yuka App on my phone. It tells me what products are good and bad by reading the bar code.
We all do it. We go to the store and to save a buck or two, we opt for the store brand. Please please please stop doing it. Here is something most of you don’t even think twice about.
Sour Cream.
I asked my kid to get me sour cream at the store, and should have told him to look at the label and make sure to get me HEALTHY sour cream. I don’t think he realized just how bad Kroger sour cream is.
It’s rated 7 out of 100 on my Yuka App. 7!!!!!!
When you use the app, you have to click on the additives for all the food products. The app is a little misleading when it comes to fats, in my opinion. I happen to believe in good fats and the use of REAL salt so I tend to look at the man-made ingredients it lists and if it’s high in sugar.
I challenge you to start taking the time and read your labels in 2025. It’s not about just shopping the perimeter of the store anymore. Companies are trying to make products last longer and go further by adding this SHIT to our food, even the food found in the perimeter. (do you notice that dairy foods are in the perimeter now? They AREN’T what they used to be though!!!)
The cool thing about that app….you can now send a pre-written email or call them out on X with the touch of a button. I did this with the sour cream.
I know many of you say “I have to do this to save money for my family.”
Start by eliminating one of the processed food items you normally buy your family. Use that money to buy something more healthy that costs a touch more.
I completely believe that my colon cancer was the product of my Coffeemate Coconut coffee creamer that I religiously used every day at least twice a day. That shit is HORRIBLE for you….any version of it. Practically all flavored coffee creamers are horrible btw.
Remember, if you start small that is better than not doing anything at all!
