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If you had to choose local OR organic which do you pick?
H and I went to the store on Friday night because we wanted to make breakfast on Saturday, we normally get our eggs from our neighbor who has chickens, but he was out of town.
So I was left with a choice - local eggs from a farm half an hour away or organic eggs from Texas. The box for the Texas eggs said they were grain fed, free range, cageless chickens. (I obviously don't know the farm so who knows how free range they are though) There were no local and organic eggs at the store.
The organic eggs were cheaper at 50 cents a dozen, the local eggs were 88 cents a dozen.
I ended up picking the Organic ones which probably weren't as fresh as the local eggs. But I had a really hard time deciding.
So I'm curious, if you had to choose what would you pick? Not even just for eggs specifically, but in general if you are faced with a similar choice.
Re: If you had to choose local OR organic which do you pick?
Tired after a long morning of hiking and swimming.
Do you live in 1964?
Are these prices for real? I mean, I know I live in a HCOL area, but 50c a DOZEN for organic eggs?? Wow!
I am the 99%.
LOL!
No, my local grocery store just has crazy un advertised weekend sales like that. It's just a smallish mom & pop type grocery store. They have mostly non-name brand items, and local produce that is really inexpensive. Any national brand stuff they carry is way over priced.
This weekend it was breakfast on sale. They had cartons of OJ for 88 cents, cream cheese for 50 cents, bacon for a dollar etc.
I would've probably gone local, but that's a tough choice.
And holy crap, eggs are cheap where you live! I'm jealous!
Oh, and to answer your Q... I'd do the local ones.
Where in Maine are you? BIL & family are in Bethel...
I am the 99%.
Hmmm for eggs in that situation I would have made the same choice you made since they didn't specify if they were factory eggs.
For produce I will always choose local over organic. I want my produce to be as fresh as possible.
I live just outside of Bangor, probably 3 hours away from Bethel. It is so pretty out there. I'm pretty jealous because I hear they have tons of snow in the Western part of the state. We haven't had any snow since the end of January.
We just bought cross country skis for 50% off because we have no snow at all.
That is a great idea, thank you.
LMAO that's exactly what I was thinking! My local, organic eggs are like $3.80 a dozen...which people think is expensive, but is still about .30 an egg.
Well, without any other information, I'd have gone with the organic. My dogs eat the eggshells, so I don't want unknown eggs. But mostly I'd have chosen by look, especially if one was brown.
Fifty cents a dozen?! My eggs are $4.75 a dozen and they're not even organic. Organic eggs are $5.99 a dozen. And this is at the discount grocery store. I hate living in a higher COL area.
organic. i don't like the way regular eggs taste anymore.
I buy my local, organic, cage free, vegetarian eggs for about $2.59 a dozen.
If I've got a choice at a grocery store between a local brand I don't know and organic, I go with organic. That ensures a specific level of quality. If I know the product then I always go local. Our WF carries several products from farms I know from the farmer's market. So if say, Blue Ridge Dairy didn't come to my market this weekend but their mozarella is at WF, I'll buy that over organic mozarella.
However, I buy everything I can locally, i.e., at the Farmer's Market. Even though the eggs I get there aren't organic, from being to the farm I know the chickens are raised humanely and had a good life. I'm also putting all my money back into the farmer's hands rather than the grocery store's. So rather than buying organic apples from WF, I always opt for local non-organic apples from the Farmer's Market.
I totally win (or is it lose?) for the most expensive eggs at $5 a dozen at the Farmer's Market. That will come down to $3.50 or so in the summer when they're more plentiful.
With eggs-- cage-free from far away
With produce--small local farm over certified organic from far away
I would have made the same choice.
When it comes to dairy and meat products, I will almost always err on the side of organic. I'd rather know the animals are treated properly, fed properly, and have not been pumped full of antibiotics.
If I were choosing between organic fruit shipped from South America over local fruit, I'd go local.
I would have made the same choice.