Ingredients Banned Everywhere but the U.S.

Seriously?  What the hell is wrong with the FDA?  Protecting the consumer, my a**.  Protecting Big Food and Big Pharma, more likely.  But I'm not here to rant on my soapbox.  I'd rather use my wallet to protest.  Hopefully, this will help you as well as you make your shopping choices.  Read this before you reach for that mac-and-cheese or the gallon of milk or that chicken breast for the kids.  

• http://www.shape.com/blogs/shape-your-life/13-banned-foods-still-allowed-us

Plastics

Sweet Jebus, it's been a while since I last posted something.  I keep finding things that I want to post about, but by the end of the day -- after kids have been fed, bathed, and put to bed, and dishes have been washed, toys picked up, and apartment arranged -- I usually find that I have just enough energy to play a couple of Words With Friends moves on my iPhone and then I'm kaput.   Must.  Be.  Disciplined.

So this is one of things I wanted to post.  It seems that I store EVERYTHING in plastic...usually to assuage my guilt over ordering takeout (the amount of waste that NYC takeout generates is scandalous, really).  But what bothers me most is that all my kids' food and drinks are stored and transported in plastic.  I should know better than to trust that the "BPA-free" claims on baby container packaging absolve me of asking the obvious question:  "But what else does it contain?"  Well, this handy chart answers the question neatly.