Day 29: What to do, what to do?

Halloween party night and what is a girl to do? I've been invited to a party and I know I will be exposed to processed foods. The best I can hope for is to follow the guidelines Andrew Wilder uses in his "Eating Rules" blog. He is also the creator of the Unprocessed October Challenge. I have been much more stringent that he suggests. I have used nothing with a label unless the label has only one ingredient on it.

Here is how Andrew defines unprocessed.

The “Kitchen Test” Definition

Of course, this begs the question: How do we define “Processed?”

Obviously there’s a wide range of implications in that word, and we will probably each define it slightly differently for ourselves. My definition is this:
Unprocessed food is any food that could be made by a person with reasonable skill in a home kitchen with readily available, whole-food ingredients.
I call it “The Kitchen Test.” If you pick up something with a label (and if it doesn’t have a label, it’s probably unprocessed), and find an ingredient you’d never use in your kitchen and couldn’t possibly make yourself from the whole form, it’s processed.
It doesn’t mean you actually have to make it yourself, it just means that for it to be considered “unprocessed” that you could, in theory, do so.

So, I CAN eat a broader range than I have been. I just have to be very careful. If I avoid anything with white flour or white sugar, I should be pretty safe. I might as well throw in high fructose corn syrup too. I think I can do this.