Organic Food & Spinach

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

So how many here do organic food? Not really a "Poll", I am looking for a general consensus on cost versus value.

As an "ex hippie" LOL, I have tried to buy family farm, organic, or "properly raised" since 1963. Alas, I am still overweight, so I may have other issues LOL.

If you like vegetables ( and as a confirmed carnivore I still adore vegaetables) do you shop where the asians shop looking for fresh, or ??

How many of us cook at least 3 meals a week for our family??

We all need to talk about things, let's get this blog going !!!!!

[Liketobake]

My mom loves organic food. She buys lots of it. She doesn't like the chemicals in non-organic food.

My favourite oragianic food she buys is organic ketchup. It is so pure and oh so yummy.
:p

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

ok, I confess I was born and raised in Muscatine Iowa which is one of three places that HJ Heinz makes ketchup, so I am partial to them -

http://www.amazon.com/Heinz-Organic-Ketchup-Thick-Taste/dp/B00061EPLS

I am not a geek, a weirdo, or a doomsdayer, but I have seen enough since the 60's to know that we need to protect ourselves. The good news is that people are buying organic, and that makes it cheaper.

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

Read silent spring and her other books. Cook, love, live enjoy..
http://www.rachelcarson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=by

[momof2]

You titled your thread organic food and spinach, but I haven't seen any mention of spinach in your post. The spinach issue is a whole new kettle of fish right now.

I do buy organic foods, as much as I can. I buy it at the supermarket, as I don't like the idea of driving all the way out to the country to find organic farms. I find myself in a quandry these days. Much as I prefer to buy organic food, I also want to purchase foods that are local. It seems that the bulk of the organic food aroound here comes from Cailornia. Buying that doesn't help our local farmers one bit. It also doesn't help the environment, when you think of the pollution caused to truck it all the way up here. Yet, our local farmers either aren't producing much in the way of organics, or for some reason it is not ending up on our grocery store shelves. So I sometimes find myself forgoing the organics just to help support our local growers.

Now back to the spinach issue. Ecoli in spinach?!? And if I heard the news correctly, it wasn't just the organic spinach that was affected? How is that possible? Does that mean that the bacteria are becoming ever more virulent, or do pesticides just not have any effect on bacteria? And why is Ecoli suddenly popping up all over the States in the soil? Why is it only the spinach that is affected right now? How does it get right into the spinach? This is all just too weird. I mean, manure has been used as fertilizer for centuries, and people didn't ( that we know of) have this kind of thing to deal with.

[PigsnieLite]

I dont like veggies so I guess I dont care if something is organic or not. Unfortunately, I do eat them sometimes becuz if I dont, Ill be more constipated than I already am. Heh. That said, the only veggies I like are potatoes & tomatoes & onions & garlic (to wear against vampires) and a kind of Asian spinach called *camote* that my mummy cooks.

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

It looks like the old saying of "what goes around, comes around" applies here. We are slowly killing ourselves. Try this link, good editorial.

http://www.ninaplanck.com/index.php?article=e_coli

[Liketobake]

An interesting article there..

Does anyone from this forum only consume vegtables that they themselves grow, and not buy any from the store?