Organic food in supermarkets

GemDoll

This is super sweet sweet corn too!
http://www.waitrose.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductView-10317-10001-46761-Waitrose+organic+sweetcorn+(500g).html?storeId=10317

Edwardia

Kirri wrote: »

Has anyone tried the Padron peppers from Riverford?

Not yet, intending to try OH with them during his annual leave tho will let you know what he thinks Kirri

Re: peanut butter, we have Suma organic peanut butter, because it doesn't have anything but peanuts - no salt or sugar and no palm oil. I get it from my mother's local Budgens but here's their website (which also has lots of vegan recipes) http://www.suma.coop/

OH has that sweetcorn and he also lurves the Waitrose organic oven chips.

bornintoit

Edwardia wrote: »

Had to go to Tesco Friday as my mother promised to get some Tesco ham (apologies Kirri) for a friend and drop it in on her rtn journey.

Very little fresh organic despite it being a 24/7 store. Did spot own brand tetrapack organic chopped tomatoes for 75p but Tesco has Napolina organic chopped tomatoes 400g tin reduced from 1.35 to 67p to 03/09. Tesco also had an organic three tin value pack of Green Giant sweetcorn as well.

I was in Tesco today and I didn't see any offers on organic food sadly. I got some reduced organic blueberries that I'll probably put into a smoothie though.

Edwardia

I used to love smoothies but having diabetes severely limits the range of fruit I can eat so I'm dead jealous now bornintoit because when I lived in Canada I embraced blueberries big time - muffins, yogurt, cheesecake etc. I lurve that smell mmm

Well done on the bargain btw :T I got organic strawberries for 2.50 from Tesco on Friday, did they not have those ?

Tried Tesco organic mayonnaise and it's a bit tart. Not as good as Simply Delicious organic mayo stocked in Sainsbos.

The Tesco organic ketchup isn't bad if you like yours kinda sweet n sour.

OH made borani esfanaj using organic yogurt from Riverford and organic bagged spinach fromTesco and it was fab. It's a really good veggie starter/side dish for the summer very cooling.

GemDoll

Edwardia wrote: »

Not yet, intending to try OH with them during his annual leave tho will let you know what he thinks Kirri

Re: peanut butter, we have Suma organic peanut butter, because it doesn't have anything but peanuts - no salt or sugar and no palm oil. I get it from my mother's local Budgens but here's their website (which also has lots of vegan recipes) http://www.suma.coop/

OH has that sweetcorn and he also lurves the Waitrose organic oven chips.

The Waitrose stuff has no sugar but it does have the palm oil and the sea salt. My health food shop might stock the Suma stuff, is it more expensive? The Waitrose stuff is £1.99

GemDoll

Edwardia wrote: »

I used to love smoothies but having diabetes severely limits the range of fruit I can eat so I'm dead jealous now bornintoit because when I lived in Canada I embraced blueberries big time - muffins, yogurt, cheesecake etc. I lurve that smell mmm

Well done on the bargain btw :T I got organic strawberries for 2.50 from Tesco on Friday, did they not have those ?

Tried Tesco organic mayonnaise and it's a bit tart. Not as good as Simply Delicious organic mayo stocked in Sainsbos.

The Tesco organic ketchup isn't bad if you like yours kinda sweet n sour.

OH made borani esfanaj using organic yogurt from Riverford and organic bagged spinach fromTesco and it was fab. It's a really good veggie starter/side dish for the summer very cooling.

re: ketchup. I like the Heinz organic ketchup, it is delicious! Haven't tried the Tesco one.

bornintoit

GemDoll wrote: »

The Waitrose stuff has no sugar but it does have the palm oil and the sea salt. My health food shop might stock the Suma stuff, is it more expensive? The Waitrose stuff is £1.99

Thanks for the palm oil warning. I will not buy anything that has palm oil in it. Destructive for the environment and the suffering of the orangutans is awful.

Btw today is World Orangutan Day.

Edwardia

GemDoll wrote: »

The Waitrose stuff has no sugar but it does have the palm oil and the sea salt. My health food shop might stock the Suma stuff, is it more expensive? The Waitrose stuff is £1.99

I don't actually remember but I would think so as 1.99 seems really cheap for organic peanut butter to me.

I agree that the Heinz organic ketchup is good but the Tesco one is cheaper.

And from YouTube to celebrate World Orangutan Day here's the most famous orangutan, 'Clyde' in the 1978 Clint Eastwood movie 'Every Which Way But Loose'. Not only does Clint Eastwood look younger, that Clyde sure looks ginger to me but very funny .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DS3nd8Nrcw

blueyellowred

Got my first Riverford box today - it is painful how little your money can get you these days
All look lovely, but £18 is waaayyy too much for my liking.
Shame that they do not have any shops - farm is just 10 miles from where I live, so i would prefer to drive there and get what I fancy, rather than taking chances on a box.
Might need to rearrange my garden and get more deeper box made so I can grow more vegetables, not just herbs, rocket, radishes, spring onions and strawberries.

And put big house with large vegetable garden, greenhouse and orchard on my 'When I win lottery' wish list

Kirri

They do have shops afaik? There is one shop on site at the farm as well as the field kitchen I believe? and 3 more shops further away, though think they are run by the brother of the one who runs the farm? I was going to visit when down that way but didn't get chance.

I actually thought it seemed quite good value in the boxes! though guess it depends what it's being compared with?