Organic Foods

midwesterngirl · #1 08-09-2006, 05:39 PM

I help to raise my 10 year old niece and she is a hyper insulin diabetic. We have gone to organic on the advice of her endocrinologist. She told us that non organic foods,particularly meat,are loaded with hormones and can cause excess weight and height gain, early onset puberty and various other things because of the hyper insulin. She told us that basically the healthier her diet,the healthier she will be. We want her to get into good habits now so she can lead a long and healthier life.

As for cost,we find that not buying all the junk and convienence foods,evens it out. You pay a similar price for some organic fruit that you might pay for say a bag of oreos or something.

Honeykiss1974 · #2 08-09-2006, 05:55 PM

I've noticed that my local grocery store has started carrying lots of organically grown items too. Shoot, I even saw that Kellogg Raisin Bran is now organic.

There are a few Whole Foods in my city but they are small. I need to search and see if we have a large one that carries more items.

Scandia · #3 08-09-2006, 06:56 PM

I am a vegetarian (though I do eat tuna sometimes). I do try to buy organic foods whenever possible. If I do not buy the organic equivalent of a food, it is mainly due to lack of availability. That the place that sells them is totally out of my way and I have no time to go and buy it.

JenMarie · #4 08-09-2006, 08:02 PM

I love Whole Foods and Trader Joes and the like. But I can't afford it so I go there when I want a good salad, sandwich or something specific.

Rio_Kohitsuji · #5 08-09-2006, 10:23 PM

We try as best as we can, but when the bill gets to high we have to give in

But, we have our own veggie garden, so that helps!

These are AWESOME:

tunatartare · #6 08-09-2006, 11:09 PM

Kayla, those look amazing.

Rio_Kohitsuji · #7 08-11-2006, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

Kayla, those look amazing.

The only thing that sucks about them is that they go for around $8! And that's at Wal-Mart even!

MysticCat · #8 08-10-2006, 04:16 PM

Ms. MysticCat shops at Whole Paycheck fairly regularly, although not to the exclusion of more standard grocery stores. (Or the Farmer's Market, which is her main source of fruits and vegetables.) She does get a fair amount of organic food, and I'll have to admit that I can't tell any difference at all -- either in taste or my health -- between organic and non-organic. Well, I can tell a difference in price, but that's pretty much it.

That is, except when it comes to proceesed meats like hotdogs. (We are not vegetarians, but she will get organic or "no nothing added" hotdogs, primarily to avoid the additives that might aggravate MysticCat Jrs' ADHD.) Those things are worse than the cheap bright red hotdogs. They don't just taste bad, they taste weird. Give me Nathan's or Hebrew National any day. (And I refuse to live in a world without sausage.)

tunatartare · #9 08-10-2006, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by jbj52503

I have bought into the Whole Foods lifestyle. It just freaks me out that the growth hormones given to cows have been linked to more natural twin births in my generation and that many chickens have been fed feed that has arsenic. Although I can't control what happens when I am out as far as organic goes, I try to in the home.

Latest Whole Foods obsession is the spinach artichoke dip. It is so much lower in fat than the original, but better. Mostly artichokes and spinach. The focaccia and drunken goat cheese are awesome too!

picturing drunken goats now