>Buy generic brands if available Many 'generic' brands are actually products made by the same big food producers, just with lower cost ingredients and generic/house labeled packaging. Same goes for most 'store brand' items. This doesn't stop the Big Food corporations from getting your business. >Eat at a local diner. All fast food places put soy in their food anyway. Many 'local diners' and other small restaurants by food products from Sysco, US Foods, etc. which are highly processed and contain soy and other ingredients you want to avoid. If you get a burger or a chicken fried steak from a local restaurant that doesn't feature those as their main menu style items (e.g. a burger from a mexican food restaurant), you are almost certainly getting a Sysco burger or CFS 'cutlet' that is highly processed and contains soy. They do this to save on food cost and still offer menu items that are alternatives to their main offerings. >Local thrift stores are you friend Depends on where you live. Some areas have turned thrift stores into arbitrage sources. People buy the shit up to resell online at higher prices. The thrift stores know this and in turn markup their prices. Just another way shitskins ruin everything.