Ingredients!

Last week while we were are the grocery store, Warrick asked if he could get Totino's pizza rolls.  They were on sale and so I thought it would be a fun treat.  How bad could it be, right?  Well, they are bad... very very bad!!!  I made them for lunch today and while they were baking, I read the ingredient list.  

Here it is:

Ingredients

Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Tomato Puree (Water, Tomato Paste), Pepperoni Pizza Topping (Pepperoni made with Pork, Chicken and Beef [Pork, Mechanically Separated Chicken, Beef, Salt, Spice, Dextrose, Oleoresin of Paprika, Sodium Ascorbate, Garlic Powder, Sodium Nitrate, Lactic Acid Starter Culture, BHA and BHT and Citric Acid Added to Protect Flavor], Water, Soy Protein Isolate), Water, Mozzarella Cheese Substitute (Water, Palm Oil, Rennet Casein, Modified Corn Starch, Soybean Oil, Potato Starch, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Vital Wheat Gluten, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate [Preservative], Sodium Citrate, Titanium Dioxide [Artificial Color], Maltodextrin, Magnesium Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Riboflavin, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin B12), Oil Blend (Canola, Soybean and/or Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil), Cooked Pizza Topping with Pepperoni Seasoning (Pork, Mechanically Separated Chicken, Water, Isolated Soy Protein, Beef, Salt, Spice, Dextrose, Natural Flavor, Oleoresin of Paprika, Lactic Acid Starter Culture, Sodium Ascorbate [Preservative], Garlic Powder, Sodium Nitrite, BHA and BHT and Citric Acid to Protect Flavor). Contains Less than 2% of: Modified Corn Starch, Rehydrated Pasteurized Process Mozzarella Cheese (Water, Nonfat Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes, Citric Acid, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin B6, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Phosphate), Salt, Sugar, Dried Whey, Defatted Soy Flour, Dried Onion, Spice, Methylcellulose, Rehydrated Enzyme Modified Cheese (Water, Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Dextrose, Maltodextrin, Natural Flavor.

As a parent, my job is to protect my children from this crap, and for the most part we do a good job.  We try to eat organically as much as possible.  And we rarely eat out or eat frozen foods.  I just was in shock at this ingredient list and wanted to share it with you. It's important to know what we are putting into our children and us!!!  

Hope this was helpful and informative.  Totino's will never be in my house again... it's been banned :)