Do you buy organic foods?

[wishesuponastar]

I was reading this article http://www.naturalnews.com/039970_cancer_junk_food_carcinogens.html

and I am thinking of making the switch to organic meat and fruits & veggies. What about milk? How do you feel about the BST-free milk (I get that at Costco)

Where do you shop for your organic foods for the best price?

 

[worm761]

We buy some foods organic. I mostly look at GMO these days. Our butcher has hormone and antibiotic meat for the best price near me. We buy organic produce at either Fresh Market or Publix. We are new to this so are working on it.

 

[jlewisinsyr]

We buy almost 100% organic; most of our groceries come from Earth Fare with the balance from Harris Teeter. To be honest though, we don't really pay that much attention to price; there's only two of us and we are not the coupon/sale hunter types.

 

[superme80]

We buy most of our meat from the local butcher. It is antibiotic and hormone free. In the summer I really try to get most of my fruits and veggies from the farmer's market. I get some of my produce from Safeway. They sometimes have coupons for organic products and produce.

 

[Poohforyou]

I try to buy organic fruit and vegetables that aren't peeled before eating. I also buy grass fed beef and free range chicken. I get a lot at Trader Joe's but also shop at Wegmans, Whole Foods and Stop & Shop.

 

[MariDisney]

I buy almost all organic/non-GMO foods for home. I have a weekly delivery service of fruits, veggies, dairy, meat and some groceries. https://tristate.doortodoororganics.com/

Other things I generally pick up at Whole Foods. Our other local groceries stores have a decent organic selection, so I can pick a few things up at Wegman's or Redner's or Giant if needed.

The bulk of my meat I get at a local butcher.

 

[wishesuponastar]

Thank you all for your suggestions. I have a Stop & Shop and Wegman's...would have to research for a butcher.

I just edited my OP with a milk question.

any other advice is greatly appreciated.

 

[superme80]

I just get milk with cows that aren't treat with hormones. We bought organic for years and we can no longer afford it.

 

[wishesuponastar]

That's the milk I get too, hormone free.

 

[joanne312]

We get our milk from Oberweis. Not sure if they are in your area, they are mostly in the Midwest. They deliver fresh, hormone free milk to you in glass bottles (which improves taste). Plus I love the nostalgia of having a milkman. We get our hormone free eggs from them, too.

 

[wishesuponastar]

I forgot about eggs, thank you.

 

[DeaverTex]

What I'd like to know, is how many of you eat INORGANIC foods? The only rock I've ever found tasty is sodium chloride.

 

[pigletgirl]

We do for milk (well mostly DH, as I drink almond milk. I have been lactose intolerant this pregnancy) and eggs.

We tend to avoid processed foods with lots of corn syrup in it....

 

[anniemae]

I buy some organic food. If you look up the "dirty dozen" it gives a list of food that you should buy organic if you are on a budget, and foods that you really don't need to buy organic. Basically anything you peel, like bananas are fine non-organic but things you eat the skin like strawberries you should buy organic.

Our local grocery stores brand milk says no artificial growth hormones used. Does any milk use cows with hormones anymore? It seem they all moved to not using them.

My store brand chicken also states "no antibiotics or hormones used" or something like that.

 

[mnrose]

For meat, we buy directly from a farmer. It is 100% grass fed. Just a note to those who care, meat can be sold as "grass fed" if it grazed at some point in it's life. Some "grass fed" beef is finished on corn. There is a big difference. We get ours from a farmer that we trust and KNOW that it has never been corn fed (corn is NOT a natural or good diet for rumiments like beef and bison...in fact, it makes the animal sick, which is why they are fed large quantitites of antibiotics in a commercial beef operation).

I buy vegetable and fruits organic whenever possible. Eggs need to be from free range chickens. Again, we live in an area where this is readily available. Not everyone is as fortunate.

We grow most of our own veggies in the summer (if it ever comes again....grrrrrr!).

 

[ellone]

I buy organic or non-GMO since my kids started eating solids.

If you educate yourself about Roundup, you'll learn that the main ingredient glyphosate prohibits plants from absorbing nutrition. So the plants have less nutrition and in turn animals that eat food that has been treated with glyphosate have less nutrition. So chickens, cows, etc that are fed a vegetarian diet (not organic diet, basically they eat GMO corn) end up being not as nutritious meat. I'm assuming this also holds true for any products from animals fed this as well such as eggs and milk.

So I eat organic chicken and pork. Beef I eat grass fed - I really can't find organic.

 

[Colleen27]

I don't put a ton of stock in USDA organic labeling. I put more thought/research into how things were grown than into the label because organic (particularly re: meat and dairy) can include practices I oppose. Organic corn isn't any healthier for cows than non-organic, and cage free is meaningless if all it means is that chickens are loose in overcrowded poultry houses.

Like Mnrose, I'm fortunate to live in an area where I can go direct to the farms and farmers to get what I want. I buy pasture-raised meats and truly free range eggs, and the veggies that I don't grow come mostly from small farms who use natural and no-spray growing methods but are not certified organic (which is a long and costly process). I grow a lot of my own produce too, and can and freeze to get through the winter rather than buying expensive, out-of-season, foreign-grown from the grocery store.

All that said, I do buy organics in certain things... Thin-skinned or eat-whole varieties of produce, especially when foreign grown because some of the products used in the berry-producing regions of S. America can't even be applied in the US any more, and some processed items like crackers or sauces because that's so often the only way to find products without HFCS, food dyes, or other additives I prefer to avoid.

 

[Colleen27]

I buy organic or non-GMO since my kids started eating solids.

If you educate yourself about Roundup, you'll learn that the main ingredient glyphosate prohibits plants from absorbing nutrition.

That is some scary stuff. DD11 did her science fair project this year on the effects of lawn/garden product runoff on aquatic life, and 5ml of RoundUp in 1000ml of distilled water was instant death for the animals and bottom-growing plants in her experiment. The tubifex (sp? little aquatic worms) were so dramatic that her teacher didn't want her to include the video she took in the exhibition - they totally spazzed out, writhing and wriggling, for about 30 seconds before dropping dead, and the teacher was concerned that would be disturbing to younger kids or more sensitive parents at the fair. I'd read about the effects of RU before but seeing it was still quite alarming.

I don't worry about the health aspects of GMOs much but I still avoid GM foods as much as possible because they have led to the huge, almost unbelievable jump in the use of RoundUp over so many millions of acres of farmland. Even if GMO corn is nutritionally identical to conventional corn, I don't want to be supporting a product that enables farmers to douse whole fields with such a highly toxic chemical.

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

For a different perspective, you might google Penn Jillette and organic foods. He has a rather interesting video on the subject (please be aware that it is Penn so it does use some foul language).

 

[ford family]

We avoid "organic" food wherever possible, seeing it as somewhat of a scam.
We are often amused by the fervour with which some people support their "organic" food buying and were not surprised to see more than one survey that indicated that said people were less likely to be helpful and even be judgemental towards other people!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-LESS-likely-helpful-people-study-claims.html
http://todayhealth.today.com/_news/2012/05/18/11737146-does-organic-food-turn-people-into-jerks?lite

As ever, ymmv.

ford family