Blegh!

I went to the grocery store today for the first time in a few weeks (I do a good job of making my food last!). I'm so disgusted with how bad food products have gotten. I've always been an advocate of home cooking--got that from my mom, the future cook in the celestial kingdom :)

It might have been the fact that I watched Food, Inc., or it might be the fact that I've been feeling like crap lately and I know exactly why--processed foods.

I'm sitting here watching an episode of Unwrapped on the Food Network and they're making Grandma's brand chocolate chip cookies. They had the audacity to call them homemade! Seriously...tell me how ANY part of those cookies is homemade. If you add ingredients we can't even pronounce and they last for 3 decades, THEY'RE NOT HOMEMADE!

When you go to the grocery store and buy a package of oven roasted turkey (on sale this week 2/$5.00) do you realize that only like 1% of that "meat" is acually meat? Or, when you go to the deli and have them slice "fresh" turkey that's in the shape of a large ice cube--that's not real meat either!

I browsed the meat section to see what was on sale, and I almost bought a pork roast...until I saw on the label "contains up to 20% salt and other nutrients for taste". So, you're buying 80% (maybe) meat and 20% a whole lot of other crap your body doesn't need.

I'm not trying to criticize anyone for buying this food, I'm guilty of it, too! But, why is that the norm now? It literally makes me sick to buy food like this now. If even find myself questioning if the "whole wheat flour" I buy for my bread in the nice 5 lb. bag is REALLY whole wheat flour. I'd try to buy it from a local farmer and grind it myself, but how do I know they didn't spray the plants with some kind of harmful chemical to keep bugs away?

I don't know. Call me paranoid, but I think this world has become WAY too naive for our own good.