Unjunk Your Junk Food & Keep Kids Healthy

Our sweets and treats are a significant part of our holidays, coping mechanisms (think comfort food), and of course, children's events. However, overindulging them with junk food can lead to lethargy or the opposite, hyper-active children. The issue with most of the junk food we are used to buying are made with artificial, unhealthy and sometimes downright dangerous ingredients. In addition to high-fructose corn syrup, and trans fats, many contain food dyes, artificial flavors (such as MSG), emulsifiers, and other ingredients that have been linked to food allergies (some fatal), behavioral problems, learning disorders, skin troubles, and other health complaints.

Sheila, a health concious mother, explains that she hates the idea of feeding her kids junk – always on her mind, though, is that she doesn’t want the kids to think she's an 'uncool' mom because they’re being fed tasteless food that’s ‘good for them.’ Sheila brings up a good point. As parents, we want to spoil our kids, but at what cost?

That’s where Unjunk Your Junk Food comes in. The book is perfect for those of us who don’t want to stop serving junk food altogether, but would rather choose healthier options since most of us can be hard pressed to figure out what the best choices are for our kids and why. Unjunk Your Junk Food offers junk food alternatives — similar in taste to their conventional counterparts -- made with better-quality ingredients. All the Naturally Savvy Approved^TM products we recommend in the book are made without chemical preservatives, food coloring, artificial flavors and/or trans-fats, and most importantly, they don't sacrifice on taste.

Presenting natural alternatives to well-known junk food brands that contain poor ingredients, Unjunk Your Junk Food is a fun, user-friendly guidebook that uncovers the secrets of the best snack foods in different categories such as candy, chocolate, cakes and other desserts, frozen treats, sodas & other beverages, on-the-go snacks, cookies and salty snacks such as chips and popcorn. You will learn how to read ingredients lists, decipher food labels and best of all make informed choices for the food you buy to feed those we love most. The book addresses such questions as which products to buy, which ingredients to watch out for and which to absolutely avoid (these can be found on our 'Worst Ingredients' chart). It’s a book you can take to the supermarket as a quick reference while grocery shopping.

Joanne says, “I wouldn’t want anyone I love near most of the 'Bad Choice' junk foods in the book. Kids are exposed to all kinds of unhealthy influences on a regular basis so if I can give them a bit of the good stuff while I’m with them, it’s the least I can do! You can feed your loved ones healthy junk food and they won’t know the difference.”

You might lose a few pounds from following the advice in our book, but the real benefit of Unjunk Your Junk Food is in minimizing your exposure to artificial ingredients, preservatives, food coloring, pesticides and other manufactured ingredients that may contribute to the development of chronic health conditions. The book paves the way for a healthier lifestyle while still allowing for occasional indulgences. Well, in our book, we consider that 'cool'.