Can You Really Shop for Food with a Conscience? ; One Writer Who has Spent Years Investigating the Food Industry Tells of Her Quest to Find Healthy Food in a City That Lives On a Diet of Junk

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ANOTHER week, another health scare - it's only Tuesday and already we have been warned that our favourite lunchtime sandwiches are full of damaging levels of hidden salt, and then this newspaper yesterday revealed how children's fizzy drinks are little more than a cocktail of chemicals.

I can't say I am surprised by any of this news. I've spent years investigating the food industry and writing about the junk that gets passed off as food. The single most common question I face these days is: "So what the hell can we eat?" It's all well and good exposing things that are bad for us, say my friends, but how can we become virtuous shoppers in a city where supermarkets dedicated to fulfilling our need for fast, easy and cheap food are taking over and pushing smaller shops out of business?

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Can You Really Shop for Food with a Conscience? ; One Writer Who has Spent Years Investigating the Food Industry Tells of Her Quest to Find Healthy Food in a City That Lives On a Diet of Junk

Well, I admit it isn't easy. With three young children and a fulltime job, I lead a typical stressed-out Londoner's life. But I reckon there are ways of negotiating the system so that you can get the best for your family and their health without taking out a new mortgage to cover the cost.

There are some things we as a family don't eat any more. Most chicken was already off the menu in our house after my investigations into the pou...

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