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I am not going to ask you to go meatless or fatless or calorie-less anything like that. I am going to ask you to choose brands carefully so you avoid extra chemicals.
Take chick peas, if you use them. (Good with pasta, as in pasta e ceci, good in soups and, of course, if you make hummus. Lots of uses). You can use dried instead of canned. Much cheaper, but slightly more trouble. Or you can use a brand that does not add chemicals to preserve color, like Pastene. The chick peas are ever so slightly paler than the brands that add a color preserving chemical. Big deal.
Haagan Daz ice cream--in most flavors, no chemicals. I love the rum raisin, the coffee, and the strawbery.
I love homemade soups, but when I need to grab a canned soup for speed, Progresso Lentil and Progrsso mac and bean are the cleanest I've found in my supermarket.
Buying a popcorn popper is a great investment, imo. But you can find potato chips with no chemicals pretty easily. For pretzels, I've found only Newman's Organic, but my market is usually out of them.
For tomato product, Rienzi brand canned tomatoes has no chemicals.
Bonnie Maman preserves are chemical free, at least in the flavors that I buy (apricot and orange).
If you have no fresh fruit handy, Dole mandarin oranges are okay on chemicals. Not much flavor, but I think the same is true of all canned mandarin oranges, so you may as well skip the chemicals.
I had been buying Dole peaches in a jar, but they've switched to plastic now, and plastic also gives off a chemical. I have not yet investigated to see if they are using a kind of plastic that does not do that.
Of course, it turns out that the cans themselves give off a chemical, so jarred products are even better.
I just started this quest recently, so I would appreciate any and all tips (other than always just buy every single thing fresh--duh).
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