It can be frustrating. I make our bread and have a huge garden. Our shopping list is usually ingredients that we can’t produce (with cleaning products and dry goods of course). My kids didn’t get formula and I made all their baby food. If I can do it, anybody can. Plus, processed food is so expensive! A dozen eggs from our farmer is $2.50, which is the same as a bag of Doritos (yuck!). I infrequently stop at McDonalds for a coffee and I’m appalled at the prices. It would cost our family of five (youngest is just 9 months) almost $25 for one meal! I don’t know how poor people afford that stuff, yet they frequent these establishments and make most of their purchases from the freezer section of the grocery store.
The prices are ridiculous but have you ever tried that junk? Friend drove me to a McD's where he wanted to buy us milkshakes. Then he decided we should have lunch so we wouldn't be late for meeting. I tried the "chicken wrap," and when they handed it to me, I marched up to the manager and asked for a fork. "You expect me to put my face into that mess?" And when I tasted the "chicken," I said, "You call that food?"
Since that time, last year, many expose's of McD's "ingredients" have been published. There's a lot more than chicken in those nuggets….including blobs of blue unidentified somethings that are probably related to plastic--right in the "texture" of the "meat."
Good for you for taking REAL care of your kids.