Liked these tips for eating less processed food in Paula Goodyer's Sydney Morning Herald blog (she got them from Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma):
- Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognise as food
- Avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable c) more than five in number.
- Avoid food products that make health claims (food products making health claims are in packets and more likely to be processed, he points out)
- Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle - processed foods dominate the center aisles, while fresher food is around the walls.
- Get out of the supermarket whenever possible. Pollan's advice here is to try and shop at farmer's markets whenever you can.
Can't say I always stick to these rules (especially regarding the 5 ingredients) but they are good ones to aim for, I thought.
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