BPA-Free Family

Before our daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, my husband (then a stay-at-home-dad-extraordinaire) was on a casual hunt for BPA-free water bottles for the kids. He switched us over to Klean Kanteen. Stainless steel. BPA Free. Guaranteed not to cause leukemia (just kidding).



Klean Kanteen even featured The Boy on their website for a little while.

I eventually added in Sigg bottles with their Swiss superiority, super cool designs, and promise of BPA free liners. Only later to learn that those Sigg bottles aren't exactly BPA-free, but no BPA gets leached. Okay. Fine.

Then we got the cancer-at-three diagnosis. And the BPA-free, guaranteed not to cause cancer water bottles came with us to the hospital where we pumped glorified poison into our daughter's body in hopes of killing those Damn Cancer Cells.









And the quest for a chemical-free life started to seem a little silly. A little irrelevant. A child with chemo-cravings and cachexia gets whatever she'll eat. Chic-fil-A and steaks, mac and cheese and hot chocolate. It wasn't a complete food nightmare. But all-natural, whole and healthy took a back seat to, well, calories.

That is more-or-less behind us, now. And we are slowly reinventing a healthy and whole lifestyle. By slowly I mean I just finished a soy mocha and English muffin sammie from Starbucks. Baby steps.

I've been investigating (and, of course, pinning) BPA-free options for canned veges and soups. I mistakenly assumed that the tetra pak style soup boxes were a nice, chemical free alternative to BPA laden canned soup. Wrong.

So I've been reading, investigating, and sharing better options and trying to reinvent our kitchen and our eating habits. Less eating out. More whole grains and veges. Less chemicals. More fresh. We'll see how it goes!