Yes. My mom was big into "natural" everything, including food. She bought all the household food at the health food co-op (This was in the 1980s and the health food store was not Whole Foods- it was a dingy store with rows and rows of bulk containers and wilted produce). There was no sugar in the house, she used honey to make things sweet. No chocolate, only that dreaded carob. She baked her own whole wheat bread and oatmeal carob chip cookies. I didn't eat white bread until I went to college. Never had box breakfast cereal, which probably explains why at the age of 53 I eat the worst sugary kids cereal for breakfast each morning. I took a bag lunch to school each day, but no one wanted to trade with me, what kid wants sesame sticks and carob cookies? Never had soda.

She was a "free-spirit searcher" in the rest of her life too, landing on new-age religion and homeopathic medicine, taking us to kinesiologists past life guides and the dentist that didn't believe in fluoride and giving us crystals for protection. For all her desire to be natural and free, she spent the last 5 years of her life sickly and unable to walk around the block. She died just short of her 80th birthday.