It's no secret I'm a lover of whole, simple foods, and by the time they reach my dinner plate I want them as close to how they came from the earth as possible -- if there's dirt on my beets, even better! Mind you, I do wash off the dirt, but you get my point :) 

In simplest terms, my preference is for "one ingredient foods". These are foods that don't come in a package because they don't have an ingredients list.

However, in Canada (and many other countries around the world) we are SO lucky with the abundance of nourishing foods that come in a package. For convenience, I do buy some packaged foods for my family because as much as I would love to make my own kettle chips, that's not going to be happening anytime soon!

One of the most important factors in my purchase decision is this: Is this packaged food MADE OF FOOD? 

Sounds simple, but there are over 10,000 different chemicals in our food and I do my very best to avoid them. This is why I put this list together in my latest video of packaged foods I buy regularly.

This list is not complete, as you can see from my kitchen cupboards above there's a lot more I didn't talk about. Also, for the purpose of this video I focused on foods that have more than one ingredient. For example, even though I buy canned salmon and sardines, pickles and more, I didn't include them in this video list because I didn't think they were "packaged" enough. 

Here's my video and a link for each packaged food I talk about below. 

My philosophy with food is eat whole, simple food so that same philosophy applies whether I am shopping for crackers or chocolate. This is far from a complete list of foods that I stock in my kitchen, but it gives you a sense of the foods I prefer.

I limit refined sugar, all non-food substances as much as possible, I shop organic when I can and I look for local foods as well, but obviously this is not always possible. 

Here's a list of all the foods in my video

• Rawcology coconut chips*
• Gogo Quinoa Pasta*
• Love Child Love Ducks*
• Genuine Health Fermented Organic Gut Superfoods*
• Neal Bros Pink Salt Chips
• Healthy Crunch Kale Chips
• HU Hazelnut Butter Chocolate
• Qia Oatmeal
• Lavash Crackers
• Mary's Gone Crackers
• Gimme seaweed snacks
• Joyous Rejuvenate tea and Joyous Detox tea*

Any packaged food above with an "*" is  Joyous Approved!! 

1. Check your local health food store.
2. Check your local big box grocery store natural foods section.
3. Go online to Amazon.com or .ca
4. ThriveMarket.com
5. Well.ca

If you're curious about what's in my fridge andfreezer, then be sure to check out those videos too. I've gotta do an update because I was VERY pregnant in both of those videos and I'm sure I'm eating some different things now but you'll get a good sense of what we eat. 

What are your favourite packaged foods? Share below!

Have a joyous week!

Joy