Jennifer Garner had a junk food free childhood.

The actress told Molly Sims about how she feeds her children compared to how she ate as a child.

PEOPLE has a early look at November 12th episode of The Sims Podcast Lipstick on the edgewho recently joined the global podcast division of Sony Music Entertainment.

In the episode, the deadpool vs. Wolverine star, 52, told the model host, 51, about her dos and don’ts for her three children.

While Garner frequently cooks ground turkey burritos and buttered noodles, she said she avoids keeping processed foods in her pantry out of habit since she was young.

“We didn’t have any processed food at all. Not that my mother thought so. It was expensive. So we only had what she could make.” 13 Continuing on 30 the alum explained, adding that she’s “(trying) not to freak out too much about it all,” but isn’t buying it for her family. “I’m not one to have processed food around.”

Giving children natural food is important to Garner even outside of her household, she explained to Sims.

When we talk about it Once Upon a Farm organic food Garner said: “Kids deserve better. It really matters what you put in a child’s body.”

Some of the products used in the baby food line come from the Garner family farm in Locust Grove, Okla., where her mother, Patricia Ann Garnergrew up

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She said her mother was happy to see her childhood home used: “Of anything I’ve ever done, that means the most to my mom — that her farm is brought back to life and growing baby things. It’s just the coolest,” Garner told PEOPLE in 2020.

On Sunday, November 10, Garner posted a sweet photo on Instagram hers holding hands with her mother and sister, Melissa Lynn Garner, as they went for a walk in her home state of West Virginia. The touching photo comes seven months after the death of Jennifer’s father, William John Garner.

Accumulate announced her father’s death on Instagram on April 1st. She shared at the time that he “passed away peacefully” at 85 while surrounded by her family.

“I was with him singing Amazing Grace when he left us…” Garner wrote at the time. “While there is no tragedy in the death of an 85-year-old man who lived a healthy and wonderful life, I know that pain is inevitable, waiting around unexpected corners,” adding that her family is “grateful for Dad’s gentle and quiet demeanor. resistance.”