Organic food in supermarkets

Edwardia

Not food, all sustainable. some organic and in the April issue of House Beautiful..

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sale on at the moment with up to 50% off

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Edwardia

Not organic but may be additive free and hopefully useful..

Selected Poundland stores will be selling dried fruit and nuts by the scoop as well as in packs.

http://www.poundland.co.uk/product-range/food-and-drink/fruit-and-nut-snacking/

Savers currently has the Sun-Maid California raisin 9 mini boxes pack for £1 as does Poundland. Not organic but additive free.

lindseykim13

^ thanks for that edwardia, do you know how to spot if they are additive free? Do they have to say so on the pack.

sophlowe45

The options on Ocado are

Mr Organic tomato ketchup, i like this one.
Italian Tomatoes (80%) (600g per 100g of ketchup), Sugar, Wine Vinegar, Sea Salt*, Onion, Spices.
Salt per 100g = 2g.


Daylesford Organic tomato ketchup, i didn't like this one and extremely expensive.

Organically Grown and Produced Ingredients: Tomatoes (70%), Apples, Onions, Sugar, Spiced Vinegar (Cider Vinegar, Allspice, Cloves), Tomato Puree (6%), Sea Salt*, Chilli, Black Pepper.

Whole Earth organic ketchup, never tried and just read the ingredients, i won't be ordering.
Water, Organic wheat syrup, Organic tomato puree (18%), Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, Organic Brown rice flour, Sea salt, Thickener: Pectin, Organic spices, Organic onion powder, Organic tamari soy sauce (water, organic Soya beans, sea salt)


Not organic but i like Tiptree tomato sauce too.
Tomatoes (75%), Sugar, Wine Vinegar, Salt, Lemon Juice, Spices

Edwardia

lindseykim13 wrote: »

^ thanks for that edwardia, do you know how to spot if they are additive free? Do they have to say so on the pack.

The ingredients should tell you and it is advisable to read the list because companies will make claims that there are no artificial colourings, flavourings or preservatives in a product - but a read of the ingredients will then show glucose-fructose syrup rather than sugar for example. Heinz does this with their non-organic spaghetti in tomato sauce

The simpler the product is the healthier it should be. When there's a long list of ingredients with long names that need looking up it's a sure sign it's processed.

Organic bacon and ham usually do contain permitted nitrates just like non-organic, which aren't healthy if eaten a lot. Organic bacon and ham which don't contain them (hard to find) still taste great but look pretty grey.

Prosciutto di Parma aka Parma ham, has no nitrates if made the traditional way but isn't grey.All you need do is look for the gold crown on the packaging. Then, the only ingredients will be pork legs and salt.

Supermarkets do stock Parma ham with the gold crown next to stuff without it - and the ham with the nitrates may even be more expensive !

Gold crowned prosciutto doesn't need to be expensive, you can get it for 1.99 a pack in Lidl.

It's a lot thinner than traditional English ham but you can use it over the breast of a turkey when roasting for example or chopped up in pasta, or in sandwiches ie in many ways that you'd use ham or bacon.

Organic food often is much more expensive. Searching out additive free food can be a feasible cheaper alternative. It doesn't mean that you're ingesting fewer pesticides or no GM fed animals/poultry but it is at least getting rid of nasties like glucose-fructose syrup.

sophlowe45 - the weird thing is, that Tiptree makes quite few organic jams, you'd think they'd do that with the ketchup too

gailey_2

Edwardia wrote: »

Not organic but may be additive free and hopefully useful..

Selected Poundland stores will be selling dried fruit and nuts by the scoop as well as in packs.

http://www.poundland.co.uk/product-range/food-and-drink/fruit-and-nut-snacking/

Savers currently has the Sun-Maid California raisin 9 mini boxes pack for £1 as does Poundland. Not organic but additive free.

I got some sun maid raisens from b&m small boxes cream and clear bag says organic and looks like american market as says usda. or something like that paid less than £1.

Edwardia

gailey yes the USDA is an organic certifier in USA which is recognised by EU.

I didn't think I had a b&m store near me but looked up on www.bmstores.co.uk and I have :j so thanks for sharing

Couldn't find the raisins on the website but did find 1kg bags organic bonemeal fertiliser for 1.49

smallblueplanet

Edwardia wrote: »

... but did find 1kg bags organic bonemeal fertiliser for 1.49

Keep in mind that certain products, especially gardening, use the word 'organic' when all they mean is doesn't contain 'inorganic' products.

You often see chicken pellet fertilizer as organic - but it is not certified as organically produced. Of course most 'manures' are organic - chickens don't tend to poo inorganic substances!
I think there are only one or two producers of certified organic chicken poo pellets - via Tamar or the Organic Gardening catalogue = Rooster or Greenvale.

Edwardia

Thanks smallblueplanet that's really useful. I will go look for certification labels later on stuff I've bought already and report back.

Fire_Fox

I just use tomato puree in place of ketchup, sometimes add stuff to it for a different flavour. My ex used to fry it in olive oil, I haven't done it for years for some reason. :drool: