Taylor - Cut the Chemicals Cookbook U.S. Edition 2014

Spreading the word ... chemicals in food is absurd!

Dedicated to my children Oscar, Amlie, Sutton & Wesley

Cut the Chemicals Shopping Guide By Bec Taylor
Copyright 2013, Rebecca Taylor, Version 1

All rights reserved. Published by Rebecca Taylor.

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Disclaimer
The information given is not intended as medical advice and is not for the purpose of diagnosing, treating, curing or preventing any disease. Always consult with your doctor for possible underlying illness. Before beginning dietary investigation, consult a dietician with an interest in food intolerance. Information is drawn from scientific literature, web research, group forums and personal enquiry, while all care is taken, information is not warranted as accurate. No liability will be assumed for ways in which the information presented in the text is applied or interpreted, or for any loss, damage, or injury incurred by relying on information contained herein.

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Table of Contents

Before we begin
Why you need this cookbook
Our Story
Is this happening in your home?
Need More Convincing?
So How Do I Use This Book to Help My Family? What to Avoid Buying
So What Can You Buy?
A Quick Note about Sugar
Basic Pantry Staples
Step by Step Guide to Cutting the Chemicals! Elimination Diet
Golden Rules While You Learn the Ropes
Breakfast Recipes
Snacks Dips Lunch Main Meals Desserts Baking Recipes Drinks MOO Recipes (Make Our Own!) Shopping Guide Common Food Additives & Their Effects Conversion Table Other Resources Thank You for Reading About the Author

Before We Begin

This book is derived from information that I have personally researched.

The information supplied is done so in good faith and should not replace the advice of your nutritional or health professional. Always seek medical advice before embarking on a new diet.

The nature of this book is to investigate the qualities of additives and preservatives in food only. It is not a comprehensive guide to all chemicals that exist in the food supply. No other nutritional information is supplied regarding the products and recipes mentioned.

At the time of publication all products listed were current and their ingredients checked to the best of our ability as being additive and preservative free.

The information supplied by the companies has been provided by their labels and public information alone. Always continue to check the labels periodically as companies have been known to change their ingredients at a moments notice.

Most importantly no food manufacturer has endorsed or sponsored this book and its research. There has been no incentive given to the Cut the Chemicals Team to recommend one product over another.

Essentially this book is written from one caregiver to another who felt it was important to get the message out there that your familys life can be better and that these are the foods that can help to achieve that!

Why You Need This Cookbook

You know you want to do it! You know you need to do it!

You want to cut the chemicals from you and your familys diet but you just dont know how to do it!

You suspect that every time your child has come home from a birthday party the food he ate there is whats causing the complete meltdown his having now?

You believe you should start cutting the junk food out because its healthier not to eat it, but it all seems so overwhelming. Lets face it a hot dog is a lot more appealing to a 5 year old than a tofu burger!

The fact is you wouldnt be looking at this cookbook if you didnt already believe that chemicals in our foods are hurting our families. And you would be right!

Foods are nothing like what they were when our parents were younger or even when we were younger, and they cant possibly stay on those shelves in that pretty packaging, not going mouldy without some chemical intervention.

But youre thinking its all just too hard, that you need a chemistry degree just to understand the ingredients label.

Well not anymore!

Im here to tell you it doesnt have to be that way and I will show you how. I and the Cut the Chemicals Team have already done the hard work for you!

Follow this book, buy the products recommended, cook the recipes included and you can start seeing changes in your familys health and behavior literally in days. Starting with something as simple as changing your bread!

I guarantee it!
This cookbook and guide will walk you through the very steps that my family took to quickly and easily change our foods for the better.

Its not hard, it doesnt take a lot of effort, its cheap, quick and most importantly your family will not feel like they are missing out on all the good stuff.

So read on to see how you can start today!

Bec Taylor

Our Story

So why should you buy this cookbook from me? What could my qualifications be in recommending this lifestyle change to you?

Well experience accounts for everything in my opinion and we have had some experiences.

Very succinctly here is my families experience and then you can decide whether or not my opinion really does count.

Just like regular mums I thought I was feeding my children healthy nutritious food that would help them grow and thrive. In fact I was feeding them the kinds of foods I grew up on and well didntI grow up fit and healthy?

However, I was wrong. My five year old daughter was floundering. She didnt have the relaxed happy go nature of her older brother, in fact quite the opposite. Interest in books and reading did not come naturally and her defiant attitude had us all in a spin.
Think; does any of this sound familiar in your household with one of your children?

Firstly she was hard to rouse in the morning. In fact if you let her, she would sleep to lunchtime! When she did wake she was grumpy and grizzly, would argue about breakfast, school uniform, hair brushing and then it only went downhill from there.

Tummy aches after meals, short temperedness and tears over nothing. Then there was the anxiety over new situations and sibling squabbles, and the inevitable fight to get her to bed each night.

Physically she would be itchy, had pale skin, dark circles under her eyes and a general lethargy. Ive read since some people explaining it as having a fog over their brain.

My daughter had started primary school and it wasnt the stellar start to academia that we were hoping for. She had little interest in books and was scared of things like school plays and sports.

It was baffling as her overall attitude to school was excellent and when she wasnt acting like a three year old she was the most intelligent, insightful, kind little girl you could hope to meet.

So why did we still need time outs and reward lists?

The impetus to seek answers for this behavior came because of two events. Easter school holidays were approaching and I was secretly thinking there was no way I could go through another school break like the one we had at Christmas, someone wasnt going to make it out the other side alive!

The second event was the most worrying of all. It occurred when my 5 year old precious child announced to me while she was having a particularly low moment that she wanted to die! I was horrified; I knew that it was surely not normal for a 5 year old to be depressed and suicidal.