Organic food in supermarkets

Edwardia

wondercollie the UK seems to have a big appetite for wild Alaskan salmon so I guess a lot of it is exported. North Atlantic seafood is often processed in Asia because labour costs are cheaper. It does seem crazy flying prawns to Thailand, China, Vietnam etc.

Edwardia

Daily Record offer on Scottish organic milk

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/special-features/promotions/free-pint-scottish-organic-milk-3189641?utm_content=buffer25a85&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Edwardia

Looks around at empty room:£"Where'd they go ?"

So, Waitrose has a few organic fruit offers ATM eg apples, blueberries. Yogurt offers as well.

Waitrose organic raw king prawns tasted great in stir fry..but I was up all night

Kirri

^ vile things, prawns (could never eat one even when I wasn't veggie).

Spotted today in M&S, 3 pack of organic courgettes, £1.99.

Forgot to say, I actually went in M&S to pick up a pack of organic bananas - they are nice, perfect colour, not too large, 5 in a pack for £1.55.

Edwardia

Wow that's not a bad price for bananas !

Lidl from today, Fairglobe organic Highland freeze-dried instant coffee 100g 2.49

Kirri

Is it not? I wasn't sure if they were a bit expensive but they taste nice - I've not got on with the bananas from either A&C or Riverford really, they just don't taste good and seem to go from unripe to brown and more often sent really huge bananas.


I ordered from Riverford last week - will do so whenever I'm able to be home for the delivery as they are cheaper - A&C prices are just way too expensive on individual items of fruit and veg now in comparison. Having to have them this week though but just ordered less.. plus they are constantly out of stock of things now.

silly_moo

Now I'm confused - I read somewhere it's not necessary to buy organic bananas (or butternut squash, avocados etc) as they have very thick skins and no nasties can go through them.

We're very new to organic eating and so far have switched to organic milk, eggs and most of the meat. Also we try and buy organic veg but they're not easily available. When you started eating organic did you just buy everything organic or did you change your shopping habits gradually?

Kirri

silly_moo wrote: »

Now I'm confused - I read somewhere it's not necessary to buy organic bananas (or butternut squash, avocados etc) as they have very thick skins and no nasties can go through them.

We're very new to organic eating and so far have switched to organic milk, eggs and most of the meat. Also we try and buy organic veg but they're not easily available. When you started eating organic did you just buy everything organic or did you change your shopping habits gradually?

I'm not overly convinced on the skin theory - especially when you read the article recently in, I think it was, the Ecologist about Warburtons/Jordan's products showing high residue of glyphosate (?) that had been on the ground x amount of weeks before growing started. But saying that we can only do/buy what we can. Plus buying 100% organic is a bit unrealistic really or at least a bit of a pain in the backside chasing round finding the less mainstream items.

I started buying organic veg first, mainly as my pets were on it before I made the switch and then onto everything else as soon as I found it all. My switch to natural toiletries/cosmetics was secondary to the food and that was more drastic a change - I literally threw all my old stuff out.

bornintoit

silly_moo wrote: »

Now I'm confused - I read somewhere it's not necessary to buy organic bananas (or butternut squash, avocados etc) as they have very thick skins and no nasties can go through them.

We're very new to organic eating and so far have switched to organic milk, eggs and most of the meat. Also we try and buy organic veg but they're not easily available. When you started eating organic did you just buy everything organic or did you change your shopping habits gradually?

I think the banana thick skin discussion was based on living organically on a budget. It is always best to eat organic to avoid chemical based pesticides but many including myself cannot afford to eat 100% organic so there are fruits and veg etc that are considered safer to buy conventional but not chemical based pesticide free as such.

Here is a link to the Dirty Dozen list which may be helpful:-

http://www.organic.org/articles/showarticle/article-214

Edwardia

I was already eating low carb, so very little processed food. But OH and I got rid of anything with additives then made the big declaration - only to find how difficult being totally organic is - and that's why I started the thread.