Organic food in supermarkets

Kirri

^ volunteered to go shopping??!! I've got to get salad/yoghurts later but I'd rather not have to.


I might be short of £ but I like shopping there to avoid all that! There are a lot more incidents in the other supermarkets round here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530902/The-Waitrose-coffee-revolt-Free-drink-offer-attracts-Chavs.html

Edwardia

My local Lidl is quiet actually, no muzak, no screaming kids. There's no difference between Sainsbury's and ASDA now both awful it's just that Sainsbury's has more organic food - ASDA's is better when they have it.

OH volunteered because shopping is a novelty for him. I prefer Ocado, Abel & Cole, Riverford and Holland and Barrett deliveries too. My mother lurves shopping though so go with her

Actually my mother always gets the free coffee when we go in Waitrose just because it's free. It's not great coffee, I refuse to drink it.

Quite often, my mother tells the checkout person that she doesn't understand why I won't drink it, because it's free. I tend to scowl at her while aforementioned Waitrose person smirks and gives me an I-wouldn't-drink-it-either-look.

Personally, I think it's a Health & Safety issue, only wants someone to bump their trolley into you and there goes the hot coffee over little Hugo.

Abel & Cole order today - I forgot to change the number of eggs back to normal so now 2.5 dozen to use before 15 Jan. :eek:

OH is refusing to eat Yeo Valley yogurt now, wants Brown Cow.. I spoil him too much !

alfsmum

I am aiming to avoid the big supermarkets as much as possible in the next 12 months apart from where I'd be paying punitive prices to shop small and local.

Regarding Waitrose, the coffee queues in ours are a joke and one of the two machines or tills is usually out of action. I've seen people with half a dozen cards on a tray, getting drinks for a whole group of friends, and have speculated how long Waitrose will be able to subsidise this offer if the coffee drinkers don't stay and shop. Their problem though, not mine :rotfl: be interesting to see if and how they withdraw the offer.

I shall be using Lidl and Aldi for general household stuff as much as possible, then boxes and our fab greengrocer for fruit and veg. Also bread from the box schemes or the local deli who stock Hobbs house.

I've really noticed the poor service I've experienced in both SMs and smaller shops over the last year - staff too busy chatting with their friends to even speak to customers, just putting goods through the till and not even announcing the final total. M and S staff with a don't care attitude, local baker the same, but other places just lovely and friendly and these are the ones I will support where I can afford to. Milkman very expensive but utterly reliable.

Don't know if you've been to WF over the break Kirri, but I've been disappointed with ours. Empty shelves, silly prices and produce just not that good. They never did get back to me about my query on vegetarian wine. I still get fresh nut butter there but if I invest in a Vitamix, I won't even have to do that. Off to check out next weeks box contents now.

Kirri

^ I did a flying visit to WF but literally just to grab some things on the list so didn't have time to look what they had or check if they had any bargains - but did notice in Waitrose that most veg shelves were empty. Don't they know I have demanding organic pets! Couldn't get watercress in either shop either. Look forward to seeing how you get on with the small shops. I avoided supermarkets a lot more this year but any decent nice smaller shops are a bit further afield so not that convenient.

I hope Waitrose doesn't introduce music... even M&S were blasting out xmas songs.

Edwardia, you need to send your OH out with your mum shopping.. and rofl at the eggs :rotfl:

I won a National Trust pass with the code on the YV yoghurts pack am still addicted to the tropical flavour. I did like the Brown Cow ones but due to the problems with the lids blowing or whatever you call it I gave up ordering.

Edwardia

Kirri, my mother is coming up on 7th so she can have some eggs as date up 15 Jan.

They have gone shopping before and came back with loads of bread !

OH muttering that we never won anything with YV pot lids well done :T

alfsmum well done please do keep us all posted ! :T

Edwardia

Happy New Year to everyone posting and lurking on the thread. If anyone is thinking of making 2014 more organic, feel free to post questions !

Kirri

Interesting bit on Warburtons/Jordans having traces of glyphosate in their products:

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2217533/harmful_weedkiller_in_your_bread_and_cereal_bars.html


Have ordered veg from Riverford for a change this week despite delivery being 2 days later than normal. A&C were delivering on the normal day but the prices are now much more expensive overall so thought I'd wait.

Edwardia

In June 2013 GM Freeze and Friends of the Earth tested 182 people in European cities and found glyphosate weedkiller in them, ingested via food.

http://www.gmfreeze.org/why-freeze/risky-look-glyphosate/

What's worrying is that glyphosate, made by Monsanto under the brand name Roundup, is used extensively on GM crops. So if it's showing up in food maybe that means there's GM contamination too.

Back in 2007, Dr Sanjay Gupya was carbon-tested at University of California Berkeley for CNN. Corn (maize) has such a distinctive isotope that it can be tracked from field to that KFC chicken, coating and oil. Americans eat huge amounts of corn and High Fructose Corn Syrup - Dr Gupta's carbon was 69% corn.

Here's an overview on CNN but if you want to see the whole piece you'd most likely have to look at YouTube.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/22/kd.gupta.column/

In 2007, the good news was that in Europe we had far less corn in our diets. When Dr Todd Dawson of UC Berkeley tested himself after spending three months in Italy his corn carbon was 5%.

These days. over 90% of the corn grown in the USA is GM and unless organic is not separated into GM and non GM.

The presence of glyphosate in food and humans may indicate that contrary to Monsanto's belief that GM material cannot end up in human DNA, it most certainly can.

Thanks to Kirri for posting :T

Edwardia

Iceland 5 Atlantic cod fillets 650g normally £4 now 3 for £10

Morrisons Free From range
http://your.morrisons.com/Recipes-and-Ranges/Our-food-ranges/Im-New/Free-From/

Morrisons begins online ordering in Warwickshire on 10 January.

alfsmum

Hmm, organic carrots in Lidl today 99p for 750g but £1.79 for 700g in WF.