Looking to eat more organically, please help!

aigéan

We jokingly refer to Whole Foods as Whole Paycheck. Since your farmer's markets are closed, consider Trader Joe's (or Trader Giotto's if you perfer )

haha, thanks! There's a Trader Joe's a few miles from me!

BoresEasily

I can finally attest to the claim that you don't taste the spinach in the smoothie and I used A LOT of spinach! I put the spinach in first, frozen banana on top, frozen blueberries, and 2 cups of milk. I'm going to try it with water and crushed ice and without blueberries tomorrow I think. It was yummy!

kayemme

There is a great debate over whether organic actually has any benefits. One good article can be found here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/article6731910.ece

I think it is more important to eat a healthy diet than spend all your money on organic - especially as organic can be more expensive and often smaller in size.

Whoever said there was? The reason people buy organically is because the food is cleaner not because it has added benefits. That is undeniably the dumbest most wasteful study ever created. Here's the reason one eats organic as was laid out to me recently. If you're given two of the same vegetables or pieces of fruit and someone sprays pesticide on one, which one are you going to choose?

AMEN !!!

perpetuating a lie. organic is smaller because that's how the item in question was meant to be. have you ever eaten a wild blueberry? they're absolutely not the same thing as the ones people buy in stores.

i know it's hard to wrap the american mindset around spending more and receiving what appears to be less, but truly organic food (not necessarily by label) is more beneficial to the body as well as more beneficial to the earth. you're gonna pay the difference either way: do you want to pay it to the doctor or to your farmer?

kayemme

i might add that my bf & i eat a seasonal, organic diet (not including dining out, which we don't do very often, but have spurts because dining out kind of begets dining out) for about $50/wk combined. we don't buy meat, though, which cuts our food bill down considerably.

eating well is absolutely not expensive when looked at from a birdseye view - organic seasonal food is quite reasonable and sometimes even less expensive than their supermarket competition.

not everyone has access to farmer's markets year round like we do (providence, ri) but the more people frequent farmer's markets the more likely a winter market will pop up in your town.

to find farmer's markets in your area, check this map put out by the usda http://apps.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/default.aspx you might be surprised as to what is actually available in your area!

also i just read an article about a guy who is growing radicchio all winter long w/o a hoophouse! i think he might have even been in a zone 6 or lower... (maine maybe?)

aigéan

I can finally attest to the claim that you don't taste the spinach in the smoothie and I used A LOT of spinach! I put the spinach in first, frozen banana on top, frozen blueberries, and 2 cups of milk. I'm going to try it with water and crushed ice and without blueberries tomorrow I think. It was yummy!

Sounds good! Was it very sweet? I can't drink extra sweet juice/smoothies, makes me feel terrible!