So what CAN she eat?!

Another "I'll be honest" moment: buying All Natural tends to mean you are buying Organic...and both are definitely more pricey than buying "regular old" food.

Stop & Shop is my go to place to shop in the area we live. It's the cheapest nearby and they have a great Organic aisle. Depending on what kinds of food your family or child prefers, if you can find an organic food store, or you live near a Whole Foods they are even better selection wise but their prices are HIGH. I've gotten word that Trader Joe's has great prices...but it's a trek for me and taking the drive is a wash for the savings...I like to stick with what's nearby me.

So here's what I typically buy for her at the store and as you will see, she doesn't go without much:

• any of the Nature's Promise brand food (it's Stop & Shops organic line...price is WAY better than the brand names)
• Nature's Own 100% All Natural Bread products (sliced bread and hamburger rolls) Sad to report that this is a case of false labeling. The front says All Natural...but the label sings a different tune. It took us a week to figure it out...and what a week it was :( So we are sticking with Nature's Promise for now!!
  
• Cascadian Farm cereals
• EnviroKids cereals
• Cliff bars
• Boar's Head deli meats & cheese
• Sargento cheeses
• Haagen Daz sorbets or ice creams (double check the ingredients depending on if they have added cookie dough or choco chips)
• Heinz ketchup We'll be dropping Heinz from the list due to their continued use of  High Fructose Corn Syrup. We'll be switching to Hunt's that just this month announced: "Hunt's 100% Natural Ketchup brings forth the naturally rich tomato flavor of Hunt's tomatoes and contains only five simple ingredients: tomatoes, sugar, vinegar, salt and other seasonings, with no high fructose corn syrup, artificial ingredients or preservatives."
• French's Mustard
• Cain's Mayo
• Amy's frozen Mac & Cheese
• Annie's Mac & Cheese
• Finagle-A-Bagel frozen bagels
• Lays plain potato chips
• Baked Lays potato chips
• Lays Sour Cream & Onion chips
• Mott's Medley fruit snacks
• Skippy or Jif Natural Peanut Butter
• Sierra Mist Natural soda
• Polar brand Ginger Ale
• Pepperidge Farm Goldfish and most cookies
• Polanar Fruit spread
• CapriSun 100% fruit juice bags or the Special V ones (almost all the others have sodium benozate)
• Late July brand cookies
• Country Choice Organics sandwich cookies (better than Oreos...no lie!)
• Aunt Jemima frozen pancakes and waffles (plain)
• Bubba Burgers
• Jenny O Turkey products
• Shady Brook Farms ground turkey
• store ground beef
• Perdue chicken breast
• Tyson 100% Natural Chicken Nugget
• added late: Oscar Mayer Select Lunch Deli Meats, Hot Dogs & Bacon...see post How Could I forget: HOT DOGS! :)

As for produce...I do try to buy the Organic selections...especially if they have the Nature's Promise options, but sometimes it's just not possible...and frankly "non-organic" fruit doesn't effect Jessica emotionally or physically. Like I said, I try to buy the Organic selections because no one should be ingesting pesticides and what-have-you...but they don't have Organic Fuji Apples one week and she eats a regular old Fuji apple, she's fine. Weird right?! I can only suppose it because its really the preservatives in other food that are her main issue...and there aren't any in produce even if it's not Organic.

So as you can see...there is A LOT she can eat...the lesson here is READ THE LABELS...and refer to the No List before you put anything in your shopping cart!! :)