Comments on: Why I mostly eat organic food

By: magpie

magpie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:41:10 +0000

like de, we try to buy ingredients instead of prepared foods. of course, there are plenty of times when we fall off the cliff and end up with Oreos or Cheez Doodles, but the basic foods of breakfast, lunch, dinner are things we prepare.

By: hele

hele — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:07:15 +0000

Here it is also difficult and expensive to buy organic food. However we started growing our own winter vegetables again this year.

You might enjoy this book: http://www.wisefoodways.com/moons/

By: Julie Pippert

Julie Pippert — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:29:07 +0000

Do you know how lucky you are in this way to live where you do?

Here…never have heard of such a book (whioch doesn’t preclude it’s existence but I think I probably would have HEARD of it). They are too busy regulating supplements and homeoptathic remedies to ensure they don’t state what they are for.

Also, because consumers are getting more savvy, they are changing the way they label ingredients. For example, consumers are avoiding “corn syrup” so manufacturers are calling it something else (can’t recall, not one of the common ones we know well, Latin maybe).

I do read labels but it feels almost useless some days. I try to keep it as simple as possible and only buy packaged things (jams, etc.) when I can personally lay my hands on every ingredient in my house that is on the label. Make sense?

By: JCK

JCK — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:10:35 +0000

I’m pretty obsessed with reading labels. And our grocery bill is huge, because we buy healthy foods. But, I figure that healthy food into the body means healthier bodies and bodies less open to disease for my children. And all of this is balanced out with heavy doses of chocolate…

By: De

De — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:02:22 +0000

We have a mixed fortune: a wide selection available at competitive supermarkets, but very few local farmers. I’m envious of people who live in “real” farming states.

I buy very little that is processed or prepared, and we eat very simply – “naked” food – because I really don’t care to do that much with it.