This is a good list, many things we already do…and some things I can try…first, I’m jealous of your local baker.
One of the advantage of living in Paris is that, among (too) many industrial bakeries, we still have quite a few real bakeries (and restaurants) and I would add ours is real talented—it's rare people don't queue—willing to bet your kids would love it ;)
and my kids wont eat it, b/c sadly they’re conditioned on the soft, preservative filled industrial bread.
Yes, that's a real issue. I was already impacted as a kid, but not to the level it has reached in those last decades. Our kids are becoming overweight younger and younger. It's frightening and, imho, if our species doesn't vanish in a poof of smoke because of its own stupidity/rapacity, I'm afraid overprocessed food will be as detrimental to younger generations health as the cigarette was to my and my parents generations, as well as it was to older generations. Maybe even worse. Maybe not as dramatic as their phone addiction could be for them, that I can't tell.
and what’s not is more expensive
It is here too. We had to change our habits and reduce our spending on quite a few things.
So even our ingredients… hell even the SPICES now come in plastic instead of glass jars
Maybe there is still a place that sells them in glass jars or in bulk, alas I think it's become very difficult to be certain of that because, what not a surprise, small local business are seldom efficiently promoted by search engines instead they will put forward shit on amazon and the likes.
Like you, we're trying our best but I'm pretty sure things won't get better any time soon and our options will dwindle down. Even more so now that the EU and America are not BFF any longer (and that the rest of the world hates us) and now that our undoubtedly incredibly extremely smart leaders are competing to decide who has the biggest... tariffs—you're richer than we are and you have Walt Disney, so you obviously and easily win there but here in the EU we have the good old Parthenon and those unique French cheese so we win here and by a landslide if I dare say so myself because, obviously, our cheese are so yummy (and not plastic wrapped). Could we now be BFF again and stop that craziness? ;)
More seriously, thx for starting the thread. It's an interesting discussion. I hope others will share their ideas too.