Monday, February 25, 2013

Healthy Dinner - NOT!

So my husband, who is not vegan, in fact, he's a strickly meat and potatoes kind of guy, comes home from the grocery store, very proud of his "healthy" dinner - says right on the label FujiSan -  "a trend to Healthy Eating".  Just for kicks, I checked out the ingredient list:

Rice: Water, rice, vinegar, sugar, salt)
Imitation Crabmeat: (fish Protien, pollock, and/or whiting, water, wheat starch, sugar, egg whites, modified food starch, sorbitol, aspartame, natural and artifical flavors, sodium tripolyphosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, maltodextrin, hydrolized soy protein, wheat flour, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, soybean oil, carmine, soy lecithin, color added, avocado, carrots, seaweed, mayonaise, oleoresin, brown sugar, sesame seeds, Yellow 5, Blue 1, EDTA, soybean oil, high fructose corn syrup, monoglycerides, sodium lactate, sodium diacetate, sodium bisulfite (preservative) sodium metabisulfite.... tired of reading this label, but the rest are more like the above and phenylketonurics, phenylalanine.

I see a couple of ingredients that might be construed as healthy, this is far from it! Now granted it might be a step above a 20 oz T-Bone with a loaded baked potato, but would probably be cheaper to just pour the salt shaker and sugar bowl down his throat!  Not to mention all those preservatives I can't even pronounce.  I sat there quietly eating my salad (pictured in the very back, organic fresh herb salad) watching him consume the entire pack of preservatives and sodium, while reading this!  By the time he was done, I didn't have the nerve to tell him what he just ate (not sure he would care as much as I did anyway!)

Guess it just irritates me when something is packaged as "healthy" and is really not.  Not too many people have the time to try and read the fine print at the grocery store, they only see what's bold on the front of the package. 

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