My Food RulesBy, Mrs. PlugerInspired by Michael Pollan’s Food Rules

Eat Food

Avoid food products that have more than five ingredients

Avoid food products with ingredients that a third grader can’t pronounce

Buy food that will eventually rot

Avoid food products that have more than five ingredients

They may look delicious, but…

Hostess Twinkies have over 40 ingredients!

Avoid food products that have more than five ingredients

If the ingredients in a store-bought food item would not be found in

a typical pantry at home… …don’t buy it!

Avoid food products that have more than five ingredients

Orowheat 100% Whole Wheat Bread Ingredients:

WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, SUGAR, WHEAT GLUTEN, YEAST, RAISIN JUICE

CONCENTRATE, WHEAT BRAN, MOLASSES, SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, MONOGLYCERIDES, CALCIUM PROPIONATE (PRESERVATIVE),

CALCIUM SULFATE, DATEM, GRAIN VINEGAR, CITRIC ACID, SOY LECITHIN, WHEY, NONFAT

MILK

Essential Baking Pain du George Ingredients:

ORGANIC WHOLE WHEAT, FLOUR, SALT

Avoid products that have some form of sugar listed in the first three ingredients

• Barley malt• Beet sugar• Brown sugar• Buttered syrup• Cane juice crystals• Cane sugar• Caramel• Corn syrup• Corn syrup solids• Confectioner’s sugar• Carob syrup• Castor sugar• Date sugar• Demerara sugar• Dextran• Dextrose• Diastatic malt

• Diatase• Ethyl maltol• Fructose• Fruit juice• Fruit juice

concentrate• Galactose• Glucose• Glucose solids• Golden sugar• Golden syrup• Grape sugar• Honey• High Fructose Corn

Syrup• Icing sugar• Invert sugar• Lactose

• Maltodextrin• Maltose• Malt syrup• Maple syrup• Molasses• Muscovado sugar• Panocha• Raw sugar• Refiner’s syrup• Rice syrup• Sorbitol• Sorghum syrup• Sucrose• Sugar• Treacle• Turbinado sugar• Yellow sugar

Avoid products that have some form of sugar listed in the first three ingredients

More Sugar = More money

Avoid products that have some form of sugar listed in the first three ingredients

All of these yogurts are LOADED with sugar!

Eat food that will eventually rot

Eat food that will eventually rot

Eat fruits, vegetables, and grains even if they are not organic

Eat food that will eventually rot

Yummy plummy!

Eat Food!