Healthy Food Substitutes

I am your guinea pig. I love food. Rich food, cream, butter, sauce, cheese...your get the idea. I am eating healthy, non GMO, no pesticides or other chemicals real food. In the search for replacement products, I have found truly wonderful and pretty atrocious products. Now that of course, is just my opinion. I thought I would share and review each.

I will be adding items onto this page as I research and add new things to my diet. 

MY NEW HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES

To replace:

Baking Powder (contains aluminum) 

Bob's Red Mill Baking Powder

Butter++

Earth Balance Organic Buttery Flavour Spread

Earth Balance Organic Coconut Flavour Spread

Corn Starch*
Let's Do...Organic

Cream Cheese++

Olympic Organic Cream Cheese
(much thinner and tastes totally different than   Philadelphia. Not sure how I feel about it. I need to use it for a while and see)

Cream for Coffee++

Compliments brand Organic Coconut Milk
Finally!! Thick, delicious, creamy and once you get used to it, it is a delicious alternative to cream. 

Kashi Cereal* (also donated money to fight Proposition 37 to label GMO's) 

Nature's Path Pumpkin Flax Granola...more than delicious. {Reminds me of our old fave Quaker Harvest Crunch}

Milk++

I make my own almond milk

Parmesan Cheese-No Name (shocked to see it contained cellulose aka wood pulp)

Switched to a 100% Parmesan Cheese in the deli

Pasta noodles 

Italpasta Organic Rotini

Pizza-Dr. Oetker* ++

Amy's Spinach Pizza (much more flavorful)

Potato Chips Supermarket style*

Kettle Chips Salt and Pepper or any of their Organics

Salt

Mrs Dash Herb and Garlic
Bragg All Purpose Seasoning

Sour Cream++

Olympic Organic Sour Cream

Sugar*
Redpath Sugar...finally a GMO free substitute for white granulated sugar and brown sugar!! (Their icing sugar contains non organic corn starch so it contains GMOs)

Level Ground Cane Sugar, Organic and Fair Trade

PRODUCTS THAT DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT 

To replace:

Coffee Cream++

Silk Creamer French Vanilla
Really awful.

Coffee Cream++
So Delicious Coconut Milk for Coffee
I went to my local health food store. I was asking about a specific coffee creamer replacement. The young woman highly recommended this one. She said it was thicker like real cream. I looked at the label. Contains Coconut. I bought it. Used it. It was okay and the right colour. I picked it up yesterday and noticed a list of ingredients. I thought I HAD looked. Coconut. It contains Titanium Dioxide a carcinogen and Dibasic Potassium Phosphate. I felt duped. Poured it out and added it to my Products that didn't make the cut!!

* Contains GMO's

+ +Contains Antibiotics and / or Growth Hormones