My eating habits I cook 3 meals almost everyday and don't use frozen foods, retort foods, precooked foods and canned foods with some exceptions. Instead of buying frozen foods, I freeze them after chopping some vegetables, meats, fish and divided them into small packages in a freezer so that I can use any of them anytime. I don't buy dressings sold in grocery stores but make it mixing up vinegar, salt, sugar, olive oil and so on depending on a dish putting it on every time I need it. I usually don't buy breads but make it using a bakery. (I used to make breads by hand but my sister gave me the bakery when she bought a new one. After that, I don't hands to make breads except when making bread rolls.) Sometimes I buy some breads only in bakery shops but not in super markets or convenience stores because I think they basically have shorter expiration dates (mostly only a few days) which could mean that they have less additives. I don't buy snacks but cook some cookies, cakes, pudding, scone, and Japanese sweets called "Zena" with adzuki beans and rice cakes, and other sweets. I know it's impossible to avoid all of additives because almost all foods sold in shops should have more or less additives to keep them fresh, but I'm just trying to take as less additives as I can. I think my eating habits like the above is partly affected by my mother. I grew up eating my mother's home cooking. She cooked every meals basically without using those foods I don't use now and sometimes made box lunch when I was with my parents. My family was large and had ten people living together at the largest time. My parents had to take care of my grandfather and grandmother at home or in a hospital and also raise their four kids including myself, so she had no choice but become full-time home wife even if she wanted to work and help my father earn money for living. My father worked very hard outside and either did my mother at home for all of us. I really appreciate it, will never forget thanking them forever. We were not rich enough to eat out so often but I could learn how wonderful it was to eat dinner at home with other family members talking together and knowing each other.