Years ago, one of our RiversZen students used to eat Campbell’s Healthy Request soup several times a week for lunch.
Why?
Pretty reasonable answer.
She thought it was healthy.
It said Healthy Request right on the can. Some varieties carried the American Heart Association’s Heart-Check mark.
What else was she supposed to think?
Then she started coming to RiversZen.
One of the things Peggy and I have encouraged people to do for years is ridiculously simple:
Turn the package around.
Read what’s actually in it.
Our student started doing that.
Eventually she stopped buying the soup and began making her own in a crockpot.
Her explanation was even simpler:
“I know exactly what’s in it.”
I love that.
Not because canned soup is evil.
Not because everybody needs to make soup from scratch.
Because she stopped letting the front of the package make the decision for her.
What Does That Heart Actually Mean?
This sent me down a rabbit hole recently.
The American Heart Association has a program called Heart-Check.
Food ma…
