Thoughts on crunchy life "cheat day"?
I am putting this out there just to pick other people's brains but this is something thats been on my mind for a while.
My wife and I have been moderately crunchy (in terms of food) for the past few years. It started with her learning to make sourdough, and we stopped buying ultra processed foods altogether, and buy mostly organic. We avoid foods with artificial colors, flavors, additives etc.
Neither of us typically have a hard time with this lifestyle, however all up until we made the switch to "crunchy" foods, we really did eat whatever. And obviously its easy to see the benefits of eating like this, however we avoid all of the artificial nonsense like the plague.
My question is, in other crunchy peoples opinions, what is everyone's take on having a once or couple times a year crunchy cheat day/meal? Like basically for one day, giving ourselves the green light to have whatever red 40 corn syrup snack that we've been craving, knowing full well that its a one time thing and we go right back to organic whole foods. All up until this point, we won't even think about having a bite of something that has artificial additives, even though we both survived almost 30 years not worrying about it.
I just don't know if were overreacting and shouldn't really worry if we get dairy queen or Swedish fish or doritos a couple times a year, or if other crunchy people are the same, avoiding everything like its the plague.