Are we slowly poisoning ourselves?

I have been looking at food additives this last week and boy is it scary, hubby and I went to the supermarket the other day in the search of a little treat for afternoon tea among other things and left very discouraged because we have decided to limit food additives in our families diet and nearly everything we picked up had an ingredients list that resembled a school maths book. However in saying this I did discover that the puffed corn and puffed rice wafers that my girls looovvvveeee are additive free unless you buy the ones coated in flavouring which we will no longer be doing. Starting this week the girl will no longer be bought museli bars, I am going to bake biscuits and slices and give them these instead, I have found a really good bread recipe which I am going to use to make chelsea style buns for the girls for lunch.
We have also decided to abandom sausages like sizzlers although a family favourite, and replace them with sausages that are little less synthesised. The changes we make are going to be slow, but we think that it is time.

Also I have been looking at parenting styles and have decided with my husband that we need to change ours, we need to recognise that we are parents and that our children need our direction and guidance. A number of things have happened in the last 2 months, some little some big that has made us realise that we need to address some things that we do as parents and as a family. The biggest change we have made this week is turning the TV off, especially during dinner time, we have not managed to eat at the table but we do eat together as a family, rather than what we used to do , the girls eating at the table and hubby and I eating in the lounge watching reruns of Friends (not that we haven seen them at least five times) I no longer watch Home and Away and we have not seen the 6 o'clock news all week, this has had a huge positive effect on number two who finds the negative information in the news quite unsettling. It has meant instead of us telling her to leave the room and be away from the family, we just catch the news later. Another benefit is that the dishes get done because the deal is no TV for anyone..... mum and dad especially until dishes done. the girls are wanting to help do them now instead of being plastered to the TV watching stuff that is really not appropriate.
All in all these few little changes have been very beneficial to our children, also we have been really conscience of the language and tone we use with our children... it has only taken us ten years to realise that weneed to much our girls more of a priority, that they need to be more than tagalongs in our busy lives. We have been given these kids as a blessing entrusted to us from the Lord.