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Poll: What do you eat organic?
What do you eat organic?
- All organic veggies from the garden.
-We are making the switch to organic meats.
-If we buy fruits or veggies, we follow the dirty dozen rule.
-We don't really have any options for organic milk, at least none that are reasonably priced.
Re: Poll: What do you eat organic?
all dirty dozen fruits and vegetables
soy milk
DH eats grass fed and finished beef, working on getting him to switch his chicken
as for milk what about organic valley or stoneyfield.
We're increasing our organics every day!
We have a garden where we get lots of veg, but we don't get much till late summer (late growing season here in Seattle)... we try to buy organic veg, but don't always do so.
We have backyard chickens, they eat organic feed and our mostly organic kitchen scraps.
We've developed a serious addiction to Dave's Killer Bread (http://www.daveskillerbread.com/ )... it's organic, and seriously the best bread I've ever eaten - - and I bake my own. Sure, it's not warm and crispy from the oven, but it's seriously tasty!
We get organic milk (delivered!)... H is off dairy, so he drinks organic rice or soy milk.
We're super lucky that, where we live we have Grocery Outlet (http://www.groceryoutlet.com/) so we have access to economical organic foods and H&BA (shampoo, soap, 'green' dish soap, cereal, cheese, condiments, etc etc etc)
With all that together, my guess is that about 75% of what we eat is organic... pretty good on a seriously low grocery budget!
Our next step is meats - - moving to more organic and local meats - - that's where the prices skyrocket...
I am the 99%.
We're getting lots of organic veggies out of our backyard garden, which we're really excited about.
We buy local meat, however it's not certified organic. The farmers can't afford the certification, even though they don't use antibiotics or growth hormones and the animals live a good life. I much prefer meat grown that way in my own county than organic meat from California.
I always buy organic milk, and do my very best to get the rest of our dairy organic. The one thing I haven't found yet is organic Parmesean cheese. In our area, only WF carries other organic cheeses, and I don't always make it out there before I run out. Organic yogurt is in every store so that's not a problem. We usually make our own.
We buy organic sandwich bread from the grocery store, and local baugettes, buns, and other grain foods from the Farmer's Market. Again, I would rather have local than organic.
I work part-time for an organic produce vendor so that's a no-brainer. The only produce I still buy is citrus, which isn't on the dirty dozen so I buy it conventional.
Pretty much everything. I don't want to eat GMO's or chemicals, and I don't want to support practices and companies I don't agree with. I have a lot available here and since its just me, its pretty easy to alter my dietary habits to make it work. I eat very very very little meat.
as much as we can... most fruit and vegis, eggs, meat, chicken, milk, bread. Cheese and other dairy products is probably more like half organic/half not organic. Most of the processed items that I buy like tortillas, chips, soup etc I either buy local or organic if I can.
I am generally a big fan of saying everything in moderation. So if I eat something bad one day, like this huge cream puff at lunch which I'm sure was not organic or healthy (although it was local), I will not make a big deal of it.
Yeah, I don't go out much, and try to stick to my preferences but yesterday I had an all day work meeting. I had a danish at breakfast that surely wasn't organic (and I'm sure had GMO something in it!). At lunch and dinner I had wild salmon and then dungess crab, but I'm sure my lettuce wasn't organic.
90% of what we buy. If it isn't certified organic, then we aim for at least fair trade (like our coffee).
My brown sugar is organic, but the white isn't. Neither is my baking powder, salt, fish, apples, and a couple other random things- though some of those can't be certified organic anyway. I also opt to buy at our local grocery store (who committed to organic/fair trade and reduced/compostable packaging) instead of the local farmer's market. I know it is shipped in, but the stuff they grow local isn't organic by any stretch of the imagination. For me, it's all about the pesticides- my family not eating it, and the workers not walking around waist deep in it for days on end. Thank goodness we don't have any GM issues on top of it.
We are just making the switch but eventually I hope it will be everything. We are lucky enough to have a MoMs, TJs, and two other local health food/organic stores to buy from. These will soon be the only placs we shop for food, except for that emergency run for bananas, etc. We also have a decent organic selection at the local store so emergency runs won't kill us.
Unfortunately I have yet to really look into meat so I guess that is our hold-up. We will be changing though.
- Milk - always
- Eggs - free range, but not necessarily organic
- Fruits/veggies - dirty dozen always organic, others as we can with our budget. We also grow some veggies ourselves.
- Meats - beef grass fed only. Chicken humanely raised, no hormones/antibiotics, not necessarily organic (the price difference is incredible!)
BFP 11.8.12 * EDD 7.17.13 * MC 12.20.12
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over!
I buy milk and other dairy (even though hormones, antibiotics, etc. are illegal in Canadian dairy), eggs (wow! what a difference!), meat (outdoor/grassfed) except fish (wild is better), veggies/fruits and bread when available that are both local and organic.
About 85% of our other grocery/household/personal care is organic too, unless its not available (example: baking soda, baking powder).
We are so lucky to be able to shop at a local, family o/o grocery/healthfood/clothing/household store that goes to the ends of the Earth to sell from as many local suppliers as possible, which is much easier this time of year. It's great to be able to take the kidlets to the places where their foods come from and where they can walk around the fields, check out the barns and animals just like I used to do when I was a kid.
Transitioning can be difficult if you just try to switch brands, going organic has to be a lifestyle change to be affordable/sustainable (example: meal planning and reducing meat consumption, which was made easy by pregnancy.)
(sorry for the rant)
Yes, meal planning is key! A few months ago I was able to feed DH and I on $82!! We didn't even eat out that month. I bought what was on sale, bought in bulk, and used meat we already had in the freezer (mainly deer and chicken)
milk, grapes, apples, and we're working on the organic meats.