My current food related pet peeve is the sodium in everything these days. As I get older I have to watch my sodium and I am shocked at how much it has gone up in recent years in all prepared foods despite what the "reports" tell us. The only reason it looks like it's going down is because some manufacturers are actually making "reduced sodium" products. Annie's makes a 25% reduced sodium version and it's the only brand that does, but it's still too high in sodium at 400 mg per 1 cup serving. And now I find out that they've jacked up the sodium in their "new" regular version from 470 mg. in a 1 cup serving to 550 mg.! That's insane. When the daily recommended sodium intake should be no more than 2,000 mg. per day, 550 on one side dish is way too much!

I even wrote to Kraft a couple of months ago suggesting that they make a reduced sodium version and I got some word salad in response about how it would "compromise the taste and texture too much for their product standards". What total BS.