A Deliberate Consumer

[butterflydreaming]

Do you read product labels? Do you read the ingredients *and* the nutrition facts?

If you see salmon & mackerel listed in your Pocky ingredients, do you find out why?

Have you ever wondered why organic foods are usually made with sea salt, and if this is for any reason other than marketing?

Do you compare price per pound, rather than price per unit? How about total food value?

Did you know that marshmallows, McDonald's milkshakes, and Tillamook sour cream all contain gelatine? It's in the sour cream for texture.

If you have a choice, do you make a choice?

Comments

[mimerki.livejournal.com]

Generally, yes. I'm more prone to reading ingredients than nutririon.
I do try to figure out weird ingredients, but I also accept a high level of wacky in some foods.
Price per pound, and ingredient lists. I will typically buy the item most closely resembling food.
I did know that.

I try to make real choices. I don't always, but I try to. I've discussed this basic question with raven_albion some, both in my journal and hers. I think there's a balance and I need to try to make the better choice most often, but that choosing to buy out-of-season asparagus is sometimes still the better choice...

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

That asparagus that L bought for sushi day was gold-plated, but it was also amazingly tasty as dinner (dressed with toasted pumkin seeds, crumbles of soft white Mexican cheese, and spices). I'm really bad about shopping frugally, which is a needed change that is taking a place of importance on the goals list.

[mimerki.livejournal.com]

The assorted Ravens have pointed out to me that it's really a poor use of resources to ship fruit & veggies very far. Now, we are pretty lucky, where we live, because we're not that far from sources of year-round veggies, but that only makes it less bad.

That in mind, sometimes out-of-season veggies are the light of my life and I would do anything to get them. That's just how it is.

Mmmm... asparagus...