Organic food in supermarkets

Edwardia

Sainsbury's has 400g lean organic mince on offer atm 3 for a tenner (still can't find the pound sign on this laptop). The Duchy Originals from Waitrose mince is pretty good but we prefer the Laverstoke Park buffalo mince or the non organic but non GM fed Waitrose British veal mince.

IMO, Kallo stock cubes better than the Heinz ones - think Heinz totally overpriced. Kallo also has more flavours in range - besides beef, chicken and vegetable there are French onion, mushroom and others including low salt. Not used the stock powder myself.

We really like the Daylesford chicken legs and think best chicken wings come from Abel & Cole, So popular though, often sold out !

In order to please the egg industry, free range regs were watered down so that barn raised chickens with access to outdoors count as free range.

Ones I buy from Abel & Cole are properly free range and you can see the video on their website. I pay 2.39 for 6 large which is one of the most expensive but not THE most expensive. I like Daylesford eggs too.

ASDA does 6 mixed weight organic eggs for two pounds but I've seen 6 medium organic free range for as little as 1.30 in Budgens which came from a local farm too.

Waitrose sells 2.4% of total UK groceries but 22% of entire organic groceries according to The Grocer. Ocado sells entire Waitrose range plus other stuff and they have own Ocado organic range too.

Sainsbury's has 2 x 2.27 litres organic milk for three pounds and that's available in other supermarkets too.

Kirri

Edwardia wrote: »

In order to please the egg industry, free range regs were watered down so that barn raised chickens with access to outdoors count as free range.

and seeing the state of the poor so called free range chickens that are coming out to rescues, they look in almost as bad a state as the battery ones

I'd like to see an end to all indoor reared animals but even with the poor cows they are trying to keep them more and more indoors year round.

Can't comment on meat as I don't eat it but parents have had a lot from Laverstoke and said it's all been really good.

gailey - also look at Marigold stock, comes in various varieties in a tub. I don't personally buy things from Heinz but think they are more a big commercial brand cashing in on the organic market by bringing out an organic version. Not so say I won't buy any commercial branded stuff but where there's an alternative I prefer it.

Just seen this, not necessarily all org and the links may well be posted already, but in case:

http://countrylivinged.com/keep-britain-farming/discover-farm-fresh-food

Also a local community farm may be starting a food co-op so I should have more local buying opportunities hopefully.

Edwardia

Because Abel & Cole didn't deliver on Monday my shopping schedule messed up. Riverford yesterday but no Ocado today, going to ASDA after lunch.

The question in my mind is, has the horsemeat scandal made more people want organic.

This is my list and I'll let you know what we find

ASDA Organic 250g white mushrooms 80p
Green Giant organic sweetcorn 198g 81p
ASDA Organic 2 bell peppers 1.50
Ambrosia organic rice pudding 400g 50p
ASDA Organic 500g red onions 94p
ASDA Great Stuff 550g organic apples $1 (still can't find pound sign)
Cafedirect Fairtrade organic Macchu Picchu roast and ground coffee $3
Tarantella organic tomato paste 300g $1
ASDA Organic whole black pepper 50g 1.48
ASDA Organic Extra Virgin olive oil 500ml 2.48
ASDA Organic chopped/whole organic plum tomatoes in tomato juice 400g 75p (Sainsbury's SO organic are 79p)
at fresh fish counter 2 organic salmon fillets for #4
ASDA Organic 6 rashers (180g) unsmoked back bacon 2.98 (Sainsbury's SO organic and Duchy Originals from Waitrose are both 3.99)
ASDA Organic 2.27 litres semi-skimmed milk for $3
ASDA Organic salmon fillets 240g 3.98
ASDA Organic smoked salmon slices 100g 3.50
ASDA Great Stuff organi mini raisins 5 x 14g 50p
ASDA Organic Fairtrade teabags 80 1.83 (Tesco and Sainsbury's both 2.01 for 80, Clipper organic Everyday 100 teabags 4.65 for 100 :eek:)

rishav34

Hey how can i got to know organic or not. if you have the answer. Please do reply...

Edwardia

In the USA, a lot of the organic companies were bought up by multinationals and that's starting to happen here.

Abel & Cole shares parent company with Aunt Bessie's. Green & Black's was sold to Cadbury's and now owned by Kraft. Innocent's major shareholder is Coca-Cola.

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/suppliers/plum-baby-acquired-by-us-organic-babyfood-business/235922.article

Kirri

Edwardia wrote: »

Because Abel & Cole didn't deliver on Monday my shopping schedule messed up. Riverford yesterday but no Ocado today, going to ASDA after lunch.

The question in my mind is, has the horsemeat scandal made more people want organic.

Sure I looked at mushrooms yesterday and didn't see organic - but that is quite cheap if they do stock them. I def looked for organic peppers yesterday and they didn't have them but have seen them in there before.

and I think more will want to buy better quality/traceable meat after this scandal and some organic - scares like this can only be a good thing..

Edwardia

Scares like this not a good thing if you've eaten the stuff Kirri ! We had eaten the Iceland burgers a lot during the summers BBQ'd pre organic.

Basically the only reason we known about the horsemeat is cos a foreign country does more testing than UK does and told us It's quite likely that until the DNA testing caught up, this stuff was undetectable for years.

I think there should be an offence of Food Fraud ie if it's not what it says it is, heavy fines and removal of any relevant licences and certification - maybe even for good.

Tesco got caught selling burgers it had withdrawn from sale oops :rotfl:You couldn't pay me enough to be their head of PR right now !

The Grocer has a poll going and the majority of people think supermarkets will rein customers in and it will all go away.

The Organix gingerbread men are really hard and not very gingery. Only 6.3g carbs per biscuit though. OH unimpressed, suspect he will leave them out in kitchen at work for people to eat.

Kirri

Well true, I am looking at it from a vegetarian point of view but would be fairly unhappy if I'd eaten it, especially with the new reports of that drug in it.

But I am pleased it will make people think more about wanting cheap produce without thinking how it is produced and at what cost... it's simply not sustainable without cutting corners, or abuse of animals in some way or as two supermarkets have started doing, importing meat to keep costs down. I'd agree I think those involved should lose licences for good for any food fraud type thing.

Edwardia

Kirri, haven't heard about a drug :eek: did read in The Grocer today that Tesco sold burgers which had been recalled by overriding recall notice at the tills. The burgers were withdrawn as a precaution and probably didn't contain cheval DNA but it's the principle of the thing. Not only not removed, but some dippy person didn't read what was in front of him/her and sold them.

Re: the blog... it was nothing to do with chocolate mousse iand a certain Swedish actor in the end... and he did write a short story called Men Don't Eat Chocolate Mousse which was waay more smutty than anything I wrote.. but I digress, the reason for suspending my blog was because I posted up a link to a commercial website.

The way I see it, if you review a product, whether you like it or not, it's helpful to stick up the website it can be found on. Raving/not about a Dutch-certified Bulgarian goat's cheese Gouda on a British website would be pointless if no-one could find it to investigate themselves. People do it all the time on MSE.

Under Wordpress terms of service this is directing traffic to a commercial website. As I had done it loads of times by their definition I thought !!!!!! so organicepicurean is deleted and I'm going to have my own website.



I always do wonder how it's worthwhile importing lamb from NZ - is it just the rate of exchange that makes it viable ???

ThriftyFelicity

Edwardia wrote: »

In the USA, a lot of the organic companies were bought up by multinationals and that's starting to happen here.

Abel & Cole shares parent company with Aunt Bessie's. Green & Black's was sold to Cadbury's and now owned by Kraft. Innocent's major shareholder is Coca-Cola.

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/suppliers/plum-baby-acquired-by-us-organic-babyfood-business/235922.article

And I'll bet they are the ones who are pushing for GM to be acceptable in organic products. :mad: