unless you switch to all home cooking Switch to? Literally, except for the pizza I already mentioned that is exactly what I have been doing all my life. Well m

unless you switch to all home cooking Switch to? Literally, except for the pizza I already mentioned that is exactly what I have been doing all my life. Well my parents did and I have been doing ever since I moved out and the SO and I are doing as well. Yes we let the kids have McDonald's from time to time or we all eat it when we're on vacation. But restaurant food or takeout is absolutely nothing "normal" for us. I get what you are saying about packaging even if we cook ourselves. Absolutely right you are and there is not much we can do unless we had a farm ourselves. I do grow some stuff but not enough garden to feed us all year. Some fruit trees and bushes too. Usually potatoes, salad and beans. Bushes are Haskap, blueberry, cherry, currants and raspberries. We pick strawberries for freezing at a local farm. And yes you hear right cherry "bushes". I have all the University of Saskatchewan cherry trees that basically don't grow higher than large bushes. Also on fats I'm with you. I've done protein heavy Keto for two years for example and it (together with the right probiotics) cured my gut issues. I do eat carbs again but my digestive and hunger systems work properly again. My dad was the one cooking at home and the only oil he ever used was Extra Virgin Olive Oil. I do the same. The only Canola oil I used is the one used to season the cast iron. We also use butter (zero Margarine allowed in the house) and cream to get stuff to taste good. Not sugar. The only sugar I use is the one that goes into the jam I make from our fruit trees and bushes. Well and we eat honey from a local bee keeper. For flour we use spelt as the main one with some regular unbleached wheat flour mixed in to get enough gluten in there. It's funny. The kids love the buns and pan cakes made from it. The in laws don't eat our baked goods when they visit. They don't like the taste :shrug: I also hear you on eggs. I used to avoid eggs coz I have high cholesterol and was on statins. The statins gave me muscle cramps and I stopped. Doctor agreed as the heart is a muscle. Could kill me in an instant. I now eat eggs like a normal person. I also figured out that I have better cholesterol values when I eat eggs the night before a blood test. On Keto literally every one of my blood markers that was even slightly off went to completely normal except for cholesterol.