Yesterday....Indigestion Seemed So Far Away-heather

I've never had a Lean Pocket. In doing a little internet search for the ingredients contained therein, I stumbled upon this:

But it’s really not fair to judge Lean Pockets against any other type of food, since they are what they are: specifically, a sort of crust around a bunch of chunks of food swimming in some version of cheese paste. When you’ve chosen to ingest any sort of Lean Pocket, the question is not “Do I like this?” but “Is this reasonably tolerable?”

Wow, doesn't THAT just make you hungry? I mean, who wouldn't want to eat "CHEESE PASTE"? Sweet mercy. I'm guessing that she ate more chemicals in that Pop Tart and Lean Pocket than I eat in a week, even including the non-organic produce!

Here's the list, and even I am overwhelmed at this:
Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Low Fat Mozzarella Cheese (Pasteurized Part Skim Milk, Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Non-Fat Milk, Modified Food Starch, Ingredient Not In Regular Mozzarella Cheese), Low Fat Cheddar Cheese (Pasteurized Part Skim Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes, Vitamin Annatto), Tomato Paste, Margarine (Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Palm Oil, Water, Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Sugar With Mono- And Diglycerides Added, Artificial Flavor , Soy Lecithin, Potassium Sorbate And Citric Acid [Preservatives] , Artificial Color [Annatto, Turmeric], Vitamin A Palmitate), Contains Less than 2% of: Imitation Mozzarella Cheese (Mozzarella Cheese [Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes], Water , Casein, Soybean Soil, Food Starch, Whey, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Salt, Sodium Phosphate, Lactic Acid, Natural Flavor, Sorbic Acid [as a Preservative], Artificial Color), Sugar, Dried Whey, Seasoning ( Salt, Sugar, Spices, Dehydrated Onion, Dehydrated Romano Cheese [Romano Cheese (Made from Cow's Part Skim Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes), Sodium Phosphates], Dehydrated Garlic, Parsley Flakes), Modified Food Starch, Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil ( With Lecithin, Citric Acid as Preservative), Parmesan Cheese (Part-Skim Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes, Potassium Sorbate), Dried Egg Yolks, Dough Conditioner (Calcium Sulfate, Salt, L-Cysteine Hydrochloride, Garlic Powder, Tricalcium Phosphate, Enzymes, Distilled Monoglycerides, May Contain: BHT, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid), Yeast, Salt, Lecithin, Locust Bean Gum, Soy Flour, Dried Egg Whites.


Um, wow. The only things in that list I'd put in my mouth as listed are water and yeast. Wow. Hydrogenated, refined, soy, non-fermented dairy, it's a natural foodie's nightmare! Did I say wow?

Off to eat something in its natural state, like, oh, say, an apple. Daring!