Thank you so much for asking about this, Standup2me. Unprocessed food is a big part of my staying healthy & giving my meds the best chance to help me.
I'm allergic to so many preservatives, dyes, fillers, etc. that I quit all processed food and try to stay with organic (hard to find everything I want & I'm so jaded I don't believe that what stores put in the Organic aisle isn't there just because it's labeled "natural.") Organic is expensive too.
So probably 80% of what I eat is unprocessed organic. The rest is unprocessed and never frozen, except for the extremely rare time or two I may eat out. Mostly I eat what I buy from local farmers and green grocers (I'm vegetarian).
I can't take some generic meds, primarily because of fillers and dyes. Now that I'm on a Medicare Part D Plan, it's difficult to get brand name meds, so I've chosen to do with generic Skelaxin because it makes me itch terribly--but that means I give up the muscle relaxer that helps with the pain. Not an easy choice to make!

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