Do you eat organic food?

[Hope54321]

Just interested to see how common it is for mumsnetters to eat organic foods?

If you do eat organic food, do you buy everything organic or just certain foods?

Yes, as much as one can.

Yes as much as possible and grow as much as I can organically too.

I wouldn't specifically avoid it but I wouldn't seek it out either.

No, it's too expensive.

No.

If I want something and it happens to be organic (or all they have is organic) then that's fine but I would never go out of my way to buy organic food.

I grow my own but I can't afford to buy organic food.

I don't not eat it, if at someone's house and they cook it.

When I could afford it yes. Organic Chicken and certain fruit and veg.
tastes better.

theres a list of foods that are best to buy organic to avoid eg heavy use of pesticides / antibiotics

Yes, due to migraines. Non-organic eggs, beef & poultry trigger a migraine attack. I haven't tried pork yet (not currently eating it). I mostly have organic dairy, as much as I can, but I can have a small amount of non-organic dairy sometimes & it's not too much of a problem. Lamb seems to be fine. IDK why organic makes a difference, & why lamb is the exception.

Organic milk, eggs and chicken. Most of the beef and lamb I buy is organic, but not all. It's expensive so I don't buy beef, lamb or chicken every week but I like the higher welfare standard. I'm a hypocrite though because I don't buy organic cheese and actively avoid organic apples.

sometimes but not always.

sometimes
I only buy organic carrots and most fruit and eggs and dairy
I used to buy organic meat but now I mostly get my meat from a local source which isnt organic instead

Also, wheat products (when I eat wheat). Non organic wheat makes my belly area bloat due to IBS. It takes nearly a month to stop hurting & go back to my normal size.

Occasionally, when the price doesnt make it prohibitive. So our carrots tend to be organic, prawns when on special offer, etc.

But to eat totally organic would mean more than doubling our food budget. My dc both go through fresh fruit at an alarming rate, i dont think a punnet of blueberries has ever lasted more than 2 minutes, and so our food bill is already high.

As much as possible. Certain things are either too expensive to justify (organic nuts, for example) or there isn't an organic version that is as nice or as useful as the ones I like (proper Greek yoghurt rather than Greek-style, or most good cheeses, or large garlic). I also prefer to buy wild fish rather than organic farmed fish, and there are things like wine where I wouldn't bother specifically searching out an organic version. But we get an organic vegetable box, buy organic milk/fruit/meat/eggs, as well as things like flour, orange juice, tinned tomatoes etc. So a reasonable amount of our weekly shop is organic.

No I think its too expensive.

I never buy organic food. Mumsnet being as it is I’m sure there will be no shortage of posters who spend a fortune on organic everything.

I buy organic milk and yoghurt. We eat mostly vegetarian and fish meals and if we do (rarely) eat chicken I buy organic chicken.

Nope

All food is organic so, yes, I eat nothing but. The alternative is gravel.

I don't eat Organic food because I don't really see the attraction in paying more for the same thing.

By training I'm a biochemist and did my disertation on the food industry BTW- in an attempt to stave off the inevitable proselytising for Organic food.

No. I have in the past as I had an ex who felt strongly about it, and noticed no difference in terms of either the taste of the food or how it made me feel / my health (I have always felt great and have no health issues whatsoever), so haven’t bothered since. And considering all the other substances I enjoy putting into my body at the weekends, I’m not sure an organic carrot here and there is going to save the day.

I do buy an organic feed for our egg-laying pet ducks because the vet recommended it for their skin conditions. But the fuckers free range and forage in a south London back garden so no doubt eat a whole load of inorganic plant matter, slugs and bugs anyway.

No

I have a local veg box completely organic.
I try to buy local meat, not bothered about organic though, maybe I should be, maybe it is!
But most stuff is standard Ocado to be honest

No. Too expensive for me

But I always get through 30 or more different fruit &veg a week. I only buy British meat, and only British or Scandi fish.

A lot of my veg comes from local farms, I grow &freeze a lot of my own. In nutritional terms, I think we do ok.

No, because ‘organic’ has been turned into a meaningless marketing term by the food industry, as a method of getting people who live in cities & don’t know much about how food is actually produced to pay premium prices.
What I do buy is locally produced food from the local farm shops. Is their lamb ‘organic’? No, but it was born on the farm, raised naturally on its mother’s milk then weaned onto grass on the same farm until it reached killing weight. That’s good enough for me, without the need for a marketing label.