Watching the news has me more than a little paranoid about the world we live in. Who wouldn’t be?! It’s almost as if we’re creating a checklist of ways to screw up our habitat.
Massive Oil Spill? Check.
Hormones in our food? Check.
Leaching plastics? Check.
BPA in receipts? Check…wait, wha?! It’s true.
There are so many things to worry about when it comes to food, I might as well add overwhelmed mother to that list. So what’s a mother to do? The best she can, of course. You do what you can, when you can do it and try not to lose too much sleep over everything else. Easier said than done, right?
Here are some hints from around the internet to help:
- plant a garden. (ok, that’s not directly from a website but it’s kinda a no-brainer)
- try to avoid these 7 Nasties (c’mon, did you really think microwavable popcorn was good for you?)
- buy organic when your pocketbook permits (keep a Dirty Dozen/Clean 15 cheat sheet in your wallet)
- go outside, run around, play! (get your body moving to help release environmental toxins found in your system)
- make your own food (As Michael Pollan said “Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.” Mmm, homemade magic shell.)
What are some of your survival strategies? What do you decide to worry about and what do you let slide?
What a great topic! It is sad what we’re doing to our environment and to our food supply. I try to buy locally so I can purchase from farmers find out more about their farming methods. I also use natural cleaning products. If it has “call poison control” on the label, I’ve stopped using it in my house. I’ve switched to environmentally safer soap & cleaning products and switched to buying more natural products for our flooring & furniture. Carpet, new car seats and furniture give off noxious fumes because they are treated so heavily with chemicals so I have greatly reduced buying new for these products. Buying used can prevent exposure to all of these chemicals and treatments that are part of production now. After several years of use, the chemical content is greatly reduced and you’ll have less exposure. I think buying organic bedding, mattresses and sleepwear is really important due to the amount of time and close contact we have with these products. I don’t want to curl up with flame retardants every night. I have 5 working smoke detectors and 2 escape routes from every room in the house. I’d rather the risk the small chance of a fire in my bedroom versus exposing myself daily to that toxic material. Oh, I could go on and on :-) You’re right…it is so overwhelming!
[...] Pingback: Dirty Food | Indie Shopper [...]