Organic food in supermarkets

Edwardia

Well found Kirri are you buying vegan beer ?

My mother paid for the Taittinger I bought in ASDA for £27 (tho it's now £24 in Ocado). We drink champagne on Christmas Day but other than that, don't. We considered buying the new organic Fonseca port from Abel & Cole or Riverford.

I know it sounds like an OAP drink but OH's parents had an apt in Portugal and brought bottles back.

We decided that between the three of us we'd probably guzzle the whole bottle and we didn't want my mother crashing into a drainage channel on the marsh on her way home !

But yeah I bet that Fonseca organic port will be really nice.... <sighs, licks lips>

Kirri

^ I was actually looking at the choc they stock! Am on the mailing list though. I do like beer/vodka but that's about it and don't really drink at home these days, am more likely to buy booze for family.

I had a bad port/cointreau/something else mixed drinking game experience so couldn't face that again and don't like wine or champagne..

Edwardia

Had a nose round on the website, came across the cookbook offer
http://www.vintageroots.co.uk/Le-Pain-Quotidien-Cookbook £2 off and free delivery.

Decided to nose around on the resto website and found this vegan recipe Chia seed and coconut pudding - the sauce of which could be adapted to use that pomegranate
http://www.lepainquotidien.com/recipe/chia-seed-coconut-pudding-recipe/#.Uo4U98TeXw8

Kirri

^ I still have the half a pomegranate..

I've just re-done the M&S health assessment out of curiosity, it was a bit guesswork last week but I've written down everything this week and it's come out reasonably similar in breakdown (it shows both weeks as a comparison). However given I often buy something and have to eat it over several days to use it up it would skew the results somewhat from week to week as I wouldn't choose to do that ideally.

Carbs 23.16 (ideal 35%)
Fats/sugars 16.84 (ideal 8%)
Dairy 9.47 (ideal 15%)
Fruit & veg 35.79 (ideal 33%)
Proteins 14.74 (ideal 12%)

Carbs - had tad less this week than normal probably.
I agree I probably eat too much fat/sugar, even though I don't eat a lot I do have something every day.. which this week has only been G&B mini bars as extra treats over what I consider normal foods.
I disagree on the dairy as I won't be upping that, had more this week as I had some feta to use up which I don't normally buy.
I've eaten less veg this week than normal but that was more so as I had other food to use up.
Protein - said I was in the ok range. Think I would probably have more than this in a typical week.

Edwardia

Yeah but to reiterate Kirri, the M&S assessment doesn't take into account anything that 'deviates' from a 'normal' diet ie gluten free, vegetarian, low carb, vegan, macrobiotic, low purine, Halal, Kosher, dairy free etc

Secondly, the 'normal' ie Standard Western Diet is provably less healthy for cultures who don't eat it and their heart disease, diabetes etc stats start rising.. so that kinda begs the question how healthy is it for Westerners ??

When it comes to carbs, the body processes them into glucose, in fact it will also process excess protein as glucose through glucogenesis.

Sugar in the form of granulated sugar aka table sugar is half fructose half sucrose. Fructose can only be metabolised by the liver so if a person only eats bog standard sugar 50% of the amount of sugar they eat will be glucose whereas 100% of the carbs will become glucose.

Unused glucose gets stored as fat - that's not some weirdo diet book myth that's a fact doctors and nutritionists can't argue with.

So personally I wouldn't take too much notice of the health assessment because what matters more are things like cholesterol, blood pressure, lipids.

Edwardia

Bought myself secondhand hardback first editions of Entertaining with Cranks and The Cranks Recipe Book from Oxfam and I'm going to give them to OH to give me as one of my Christmas presents.

Kirri

Edwardia wrote: »

So personally I wouldn't take too much notice of the health assessment because what matters more are things like cholesterol, blood pressure, lipids.

Yeah I'm aware it doesn't cater for various food preferences but I was curious to see how I compare with what they consider normal.. My weight this week was 7st 13lbs, couple of lbs over what I want but that, BP and BMI normal, just the cholesterol higher than it should be.

Just got a 49p delivery slot on Ocado, I am getting cheaper slots than before even though I'm ordering every fortnight only on the min £40 spend.

The non org Rude Health granola I like has gone up £1 on Ocado since last week! I've got the org version in the cupboard to try but at the time I ordered it was £2 more than the non org and doesn't actually look as good. Yet to taste it however.

I also fancied some organic sweetcorn (my own has finished) but in tinned there isn't an organic salt/sugar free version. Went for the Biona one in the end. Has anyone found any plain sweetcorn elsewhere?

smallblueplanet

Kirri wrote: »

I also fancied some organic sweetcorn (my own has finished) but in tinned there isn't an organic salt/sugar free version. Went for the Biona one in the end. Has anyone found any plain sweetcorn elsewhere?

Waitrose sell frozen organic sweetcorn, but recently has been in and out of stock so may not show on searches.

Kirri

Edwardia wrote: »

Bought myself secondhand hardback first editions of Entertaining with Cranks and The Cranks Recipe Book from Oxfam and I'm going to give them to OH to give me as one of my Christmas presents.

I hope he will get you some surprises too
I will check these out if they are in the library..

smallblueplanet wrote: »

Waitrose sell frozen organic sweetcorn, but recently has been in and out of stock so may not show on searches.

Thanks will check next time I'm in there.
Need to clear some space as freezer full of home grown veg at the moment!

Edwardia

ASDA sells/used to sell frozen organic sweetcorn not seen it in ages.. maybe they have same supplier as Waitrose and there's an issue ? When Waitrose and Ocado have the organic stuff in stock it's 1.49 for 500g

I buy Green Giant organic sweetcorn 198g cans 89p from ASDA but lately only been able to get the 150g can for 80p. Mysupermarket only shows the 150g one for ASDA.

Last week I found small cans of Sainsbury's SO organic sweetcorn for 79p in one branch but not the other and it's not showing on Sainsbury's website or mysupermarket.

Tesco.com has Green Giant organic sweetcorn 3 x 198g for 2.92 (not showing on mysupermarket) but this is 25p more expensive than buying 3 x 198g cans from ASDA !

Mysupermarket is showing 198g cans of organic Green Giant sweetcorn at Ocado and Waitrose only for 89p.

Iceland Freshly Frozen Supersweet Sweetcorn 900g is £1 and doesn't have added sugar or salt but obviously isn't organic.

re Cranks cook books.. library may not have them anymore.. they were originally published in 80s. My veggie mother's copies are severely battered and stained, she cooked from those when I was growing up.