The Good Food Campaign

We at TGFC shy away from much processed food.

However, not all processed food is bad by any means.

After all, when we cook food at home, we’re processing it. When we make our own sauces, gravies, and dips we’re processing food.

What we mean at TGFC, of course, is food that is highly processed, usually on an industrial scale. This kind of processed food often contains extra sodium to make it taste better; added colors to make it look better, and chemical preservatives to make it last longer.

While we don’t want everything to go bad in five minutes, if we prepare food as we need it, that’s not going to happen in any case. Of course, we can also prepare dishes in advance and refrigerate or freeze them. That way, we don’t need to add extra preservatives anyway!

Some good examples of home produced processed food:

• Ketchup
• Sausage
• Salad Dressings
• Pickles
• Jams
• Bread

Much can be made from locally sourced fresh produce too, often organic. Food that’s in season is often less expensive, and tastes better. You’re also helping the environment by not buying something that has been transported half way around the world, and you’re helping your own local economy at the same time!

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Of course, that is usually said to those who want to maintain their homes, or their car.

It equally applies in the kitchen though.

Save money by eating out less, and eat more healthily.

Save money by cooking from scratch, and eat more healthily too.

It’s not a lot of use eating at home if all you do is eat take-out items or frozen TV dinners. For one, it won’t save you much money, and secondly, most take out food and packets of TV dinners are highly processed, with lots of added preservatives, colors, sodium and other junk like HFCS.

If you cook from fresh ingredients at home, you know exactly what you’re eating.

If you can buy organic meat, fruit and vegetables, it’ll still be less expensive, far healthier and much more nutritious than buying junk food.

Try planning ahead and you can save even more. For example, a larger chicken can last two days, and you oonly need to cook it once. As long as you properly refrigerate the leftovers you can have a healthy chicken salad the next day, or perhaps make some chicken fried rice (which will have a lot less sodium in than that from the Chinese take out). You an also use wholegrain rice, for added vitamins and fiber.

Try to work out what you’re going to eat for at least a few days, and then you won’t buy too much, and have it go bad before you eat it, particularly vegetables and fruit (as fresh meat can more easily be frozen as-is, whereas vegetables need to be prepared and blanched first before freezing).

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At TGFC we think it’s important for yourself, and important for your kids to make healthy food choices. Of course one is bombarded with advertisements, some of which are quite misleading in their claims. That cereal may well have extra fiber, but it’s also full of sugar for example.

This makes it difficult to know what to eat yourself, let alone for the kids.

Still, remember that food is meant to be eaten for nourishment, and it’s also meant to be enjoyed. That’s why there are so many recipe books out there.

Check these out from Annabel Karmel.

Good Food For Kids

Don’t become neurotic about food. You’ll pass that on to your kids. They need to experiment. Let them get messy with food. Don’t keep wiping them clean every two seconds either. Certainly train them not to throw their food about everywhere, that’s it’s not a game to do that, but also let them dip their fingers in, and get it around their face a bit. It won’t hurt, and it’ll make meal times more relaxed for everyone involved.

At the end of the day, nothing horrible is going to happen to junior because they ate something solid at seven months, or someone fed them a spoonful of baked beans, and they’ll be on their way to becoming well-adjusted towards food, but with some help from you, able to make good healthy choices, and minimize the consumption of junk processed food products as they get older.

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