What are some healty organic items to get from the market

BonitaAppleBomb87
BonitaAppleBomb87 Posts: 79
edited January 9 in Introduce Yourself
I'm trying to stay away from all processed , and artificial ingredients, and I wanted to know what are the things you like to buy and eat that's all natural?

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  • sofielein
    sofielein Posts: 539 Member
    I buy for example *real* spinach leaves instead of frozen (god forbid, 'creamed up' version). This gives you a lot of work as you need to remove the stem and the bag is huge, but it's real vegetable hey :)

    and the taste can in no way be compared to frozen stuff, it is just different, it's what I call real food taste. 10 minutes to remove the stem, 2 minutes to heat up the little butter, 2 minutes to peel and grind the cloves of garlic, and 4 minutes to sautee my spinach leaves on it - best side dish for fish or shrimp or chicken!
  • sofielein
    sofielein Posts: 539 Member
    Oh, and even if I buy processed of anything - herbs must be organic. Only buying basil, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, lemongrass, chili, coriander in pots or at least what looks like a real plant.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    I buy for example *real* spinach leaves instead of frozen (god forbid, 'creamed up' version). This gives you a lot of work as you need to remove the stem and the bag is huge, but it's real vegetable hey :)

    and the taste can in no way be compared to frozen stuff, it is just different, it's what I call real food taste. 10 minutes to remove the stem, 2 minutes to heat up the little butter, 2 minutes to peel and grind the cloves of garlic, and 4 minutes to sautee my spinach leaves on it - best side dish for fish or shrimp or chicken!

    Unless you are on a raw foods diet, there is nothing wrong with frozen spinach. It's just as healthy and natural as raw, it's just cooked. It's actually one of the best bargains in the store, since you have to cook a huge batch of raw spinach to get as much as one bag/box of frozen, yet the frozen is a fraction of the price of raw.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    I don't avoid all processed foods, but the healthy unprocessed foods I buy are all natural meats, wild caught seafood, raw vegetables and fruits, frozen vegetables with no added ingredients, nuts and nut butters (though honestly I usually buy pre-roasted nuts), dried beans, organic brown rice, and organic quinoa.
  • farway
    farway Posts: 1,251 Member
    Maybe it is cultural? I am in UK and natural is what is not in tins, packets or freezers, I find no problems at all, just buy fresh vegetables, fruit, fish & meat.
  • sofielein
    sofielein Posts: 539 Member
    I have to disagree - it is common knowledge that freezing does no good to vegetables in terms of nutrients and fibers. But my main reason is - being a fan of gourmet cooking - that the taste is very VERY different. I go to any given restaurant and can tell immediately if the ingredients were frozen or not. That's just like fine hearing - I know when the Wiener Philharmonicer are off key - just because you don't sense it it doesn't mean it's not there.
  • sofielein
    sofielein Posts: 539 Member
    And sorry for sounding snobbish but this - for me - is a factor when shopping even though I'm being told "oh it's totally the same". No, it's not, at least not for me.
  • sofielein
    sofielein Posts: 539 Member
    Maybe it is cultural? I am in UK and natural is what is not in tins, packets or freezers, I find no problems at all, just buy fresh vegetables, fruit, fish & meat.


    I think we have a different attitude in Europe... we almost expect everything to be natural. This may be very strange to Americans.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    I have to disagree - it is common knowledge that freezing does no good to vegetables in terms of nutrients and fibers. But my main reason is - being a fan of gourmet cooking - that the taste is very VERY different. I go to any given restaurant and can tell immediately if the ingredients were frozen or not. That's just like fine hearing - I know when the Wiener Philharmonicer are off key - just because you don't sense it it doesn't mean it's not there.

    "common knowledge" is often nothing more than heavily propogated nonsense. Do you have any real knowledge that freezing lessens the nutrient content? Often frozen has better nutrient content since most vegetables of frozen soon after being picked, while it may take several days for "fresh" vegetables to make it to market, and light destroys some nutrients. Fresh may also be picked less than ripe and "ripened" during transportation, which can affect nutrients.

    If you don't want to eat frozen, don't. But what you may prefer doesn't affect how healthy to food is.
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