What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?
So normally I’m very good at keeping us healthy. With the change of diet, exercise, cleanliness in public, clean house, etc.
However, recently we just went on a trip. And we were perfectly healthy. Taking our tonic everyday. Never eating out. (I was constantly cooking everything from scratch; so many bagels!! 😵💫)
But our last day, my mother-in-law offered me any of their organic foods; since they had to fly home. I took a can of refried beans, plain beans, and 1 1/2 jars of applesauce.
We two days ago ate the applesauce. Mind you the only ingredient listed was: organic apples, so I didn’t think anything of it. I thought it would be a treat, since I didn’t have to make it. Well, that was a big mistake.
We all eat the applesauce. My son likes applesauce, but never enough to lick the bowl clean. That should have been a dead giveaway away. Then my husband, daughter, and myself started to feel queasy in the stomach. Then maybe twenty minutes later, we all had the taste of aspartame in our mouths. The taste you get when you chew gum, or brush with Colgate. So I knew that the applesauce had something else in it. I looked it up and discovered that it had natural sweeteners added. Which can be aspartame. It’s a preservative. It lets it last longer after opening.
It’s scary to not be able to trust ingredient labels anymore. So we learned our lesson. I’m just going to make everything myself, because then I know what’s in it.
But after all this, my son caught a cold. Apple sauce with fake sugar to lower his immune system, and then putting his hand in his mouth when we went out shopping = sick. So my son is sick and my 7mo old is getting sick.
Just a bummer. To need to do things and I can’t.
Everyone else enjoy your Thursday.
emily2jane 