Organic food in supermarkets

Kirri

berbastrike wrote: »

quite jealous Kirri, looks great and I bet it tastes good too

got some organic salad tomatoes in Morrisons today £1, they also had organic cherry toms for £1.30 I think - quite fair prices.
Also got organic milk, organic raisins, but the rest of the small shop was non organic - pineapple, chicken, oranges, salad bags

Yep the pets have already started munching some of it! I can't wait to get started on it.

The Morrisons organic plum and vine tomatoes looked nice earlier in the week and the organic rainbow carrots - I didn't buy as I was planning the box though.

cupcake - Riverford are doing a B2GOF deal, I didn't go for it as I can't be sure I will be at home enough. A&C were doing a deal too.

Edwardia - shame it's not even possible to amend a tart recipe as there's nothing low carb you could substitute really. I have an alternative base recipe but even that is full of nuts and things and I sometimes used potato flour which is just as bad! The President butter I would buy to try if more widely available. It's not too bad a price I guess given it's using a speciality site.

Edwardia

Hi cupcake welcome to the thread, hi there berbastrike

cupcake - I'm still trying things on Riverford but husband lurves the ham and leek pies, homity pies and Flour Power City bread. I like the mushrooms, fennel, tomatoes and aubergines. Whether you can get that particular bread depends on where you live but Riverford will have bread from other bakers elsewhere.

Abel & Cole list of likes is pretty long now. Not had anything from either company we've hated. Think Abel & Cole milk is better though. A&C has bread from Long Crichel Bakery and The Authentic Bread Co.

berbastrike and Kirri have you ever seen things like own brand organic tinned tomatoes in Morrisons ? Wonder whether the own brands and range of products will increase when Morrisons goes online. Call me a sad case, but I'm intrigued - local store is dire though, way too cramped. No fresh organic stuff at all.

Sainsbury's is improving range all the time and Lidl has a little bit more now.

We were going to go check out if Co-op in next town has organic food tomorrow but kitchen drain needs clearing out. I nag OH and say don't put chicken fat down the sink.. does he listen ?

kirri - personally I think the organic butter price is horrendous but organic Mozzarella at 1.69 is not bad. Got some organic biscuits from French Click for Christmas but they weren't that exciting. However if you like Bonne Maman I think they do more or less the whole range.

I emailed via the President website and the UK marketing manager said no plans to introduce the organic variant this year. They've got the President butter in the plastic cheese dome shape though on Ocado now.

smallblueplanet

Edwardia wrote: »

Borges organic Extra Virgin olive oil 500ml 50% off now 2.34 Morrisons to 17 Feb

Borges dates back to 1896 www.borges.es (some of the website in English).

OH nabbed four for us this morning as we like it.

Hey Edwardia,
have just bought some of this - but although the shelf label said organic there is nothing on the bottle, have I been done? Ta.

Kirri

Wasn't there a water board video on YouTube made about fat down drains?

Last time I looked in Morrisons when I needed an emergency tin of toms they didn't have organic in my local store, I actually had to get the value ones as they were just tomatoes iirc whereas the more expensive ones had added salt, sugar etc in which I didn't want. I'll check next time I'm in there in case it's changed. They do things like org rice and pasta and tinned sweetcorn though iirc but don't do basics like couscous and lentils etc.

Whether they improve the org range though, ie with the new veg thing being rolled out they seem to be trying to go more upmarket but I am not convinced, it seems to go away from their core shopper (if my local store is anything to go by).

Fire_Fox

You can make pastry substitutes with ground almonds or peanut flour (some of the oil removed to make it more 'flour' like but still all the other nutrients). There's also coconut flour (again some of the oil removed) which is used in some baking recipes, not sure about pastry tho.

You might need xanthan gum (Doves Farm) without the wheat, don't know. Haven't noticed organic peanut flour in the UK tho TBH I wasn't looking but it does exist in the US, and the extraction process apparently doesn't use horrendous chemicals.

Edwardia

smallblueplanet wrote: »

Hey Edwardia,
have just bought some of this - but although the shelf label said organic there is nothing on the bottle, have I been done? Ta.

There was more than one type of olive oil from Borges in the offer but they were both the same price.

When I went to Morrisons with my mother one trip, we both bought lilies because they were on offer. All in the same container, same colour but hers were a different price.

Will go have a look at mine and tell you what label looks like. Would post a photo but put BlackBerry down and can't find it.

smallblueplanet I had a look and on the big front of bottle label, under BORGES it has Organic in fancy script. As you look at it, on the left side (the label wraps round the sides) it has some Spanish agricultural logo. On the right hand side, there's the EU organic logo, which is a leaf shape of gold stars, on a green background.

The offer doesn't end until Sunday. Personally I would take it back and whinge. Hopefully you will get the right one given to you or a promise to get it at offer price when new stock comes in or a refund. I think they're being sneaky. In other supermaarkets, if something is out of stock they either remove the label or put Temporaily Out of Stock over the top.

Hope that helps !

Edwardia

Kirri thanks for that x

Fire Fox must admit I don't do low carb baking. I don't see the point of trying to approximate something I never much cared for in the first place. Whereas my mother and husband are bread, cake and biscuit lovers I would rather scoff wild Atlantic shell-on prawns.

Parisian

I had a lovely leisurely browse in Waitrose today & there are some great offers on... all Seeds of Change Organic Pasta Sauces are £1.52 each. The tomato & basil was available in a 350g size and a 500g size, and they were both £1.52 each. I picked up one of each type available to try - 5 in all!

Also, Green & Blacks boxes of 12 mini bars are 2 for £8 at the moment - they are usually £5.50 each

x

Kirri

^ Ocado have the G&B mini bars for £4 at the moment, have put them on my next order - presume they are the same size. They had 3 different packs iirc.

Parisian

Yesss sounds like the same thing, I saw 3 varieties in store - milk & white selection, classic selection & dark selection. Each bar is 15g and less than 100kcal