Step #5: Less is More!

Less is More! No artificial sweeteners, artificial colors, artificial flavors, or preservatives EVER!

Our “foods” today are riddled with artificial flavors, colors, and sweeteners. Many ingredients we can’t even pronounce. Ingredients who owe their existence to laboratories and chemical reactions versus dirt, water and sunshine.

Did you know that even refrigerated biscuits have food coloring in them? I didn’t either. Makes you wonder what color those white fluffy biscuits were before they added Red #40.

Here's a recap on the "more" you would do better without:
Artificial Preservatives: Sulfites, Sulfates, Nitrites, Nitrates, BHT, Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)

Artificial Sweeteners: Saccharin, Splenda & Aspartame. Sorbitol, Manitol, and Xylitol are sugar alcohols-there is a bit of controversy on these. I'll let you decide. As for me...I'll pass on those.

Food Color: FDC # any

Hormones: rbGH

Partially hydrogenated oils

We may not be able to fully control what's in the food we eat at restaurants, at someone else's home, or unfortunately at school, but we can decide what stocks our own refrigerators and pantries.