To ask if you can only afford a few organic things

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What are the most important ones to choose?

Thanks

Meat and eggs are the organic things I go for. Not as bothered about fruit and veg being organic. Not interested at all interested processed food being organic, ginger biscuits and the like.

meat, and any fruit and veg with thin skins, for example grapes will have more pesticides on them than an orange as once you peel it the inside will be protected to a certain degree if that makes sense?

For me personally it's Meat first and foremost then eggs

I'm not worried about fruit and veg and like the PP, I'm not the slightest bit bothered by processed food being organic

Another vote for meat, dairy, eggs. The other benefit of organic is that generally the animal welfare standards are better than non-organic. There's no guarantees with any animal products, of course, but organic is a step in the right direction.

Eggs!

Don't eat meat or dairy but if I did I'd probably buy organic.

Eggs.

I don't buy anything else organic.

Thank you, I was thinking about the thick skin thing, and wondering if, as presumably the water that the plant takes in will have pesticides in it too, (I guess it does if the plant has been sprayed and the pesticides are on the ground and the water goes in the ground) if it makes that much of a difference?

Meat, eggs, milk.

Antibiotic thing is scary

Milk

Watery/juicy fruit and veg. So for me this is carrots and celery. Anything you eat the skin of, e.g. apples, peaches, tomatoes, cucumber. I eat hardly any meat anyway and I don't eat farmed fish. I don't really buy berries any more, if I did I'd try to get organic ones. DH works in this area and what is sprayed on food is horrific.

I feel veg that grow under the ground might be less pesticide covered but this is just a notion I have. I buy organic broccoli. Peas and sweetcorn are nicely covered before you buy them. Again just a notion I have.
It's difficult.

Milk

Removable skin definitely makes a difference OP. Often food is sprayed just before/post harvest. So most of that would be on the outside.

Milk

Anything involving produce from animals, so meat, eggs, milk etc. I tend to buy fruit and veg as locally grown as possible and only eat them in season. They taste better and cost less. Don't see the point in eg eating tasteless strawberries in December.

Milk isn't relevant in Europe IMO. Thin skinned vegetables and eggs makes sense.

In Europe animals who have had antibiotics aren't allowed to be used for food - that's meat or eggs/dairy.

www.ewg.org/foodnews/mobile/

There's a list of the produce that absorbs the most pesticides, I try to buy organic based on thus.

Milk (and thus cheese) as there is an evidence base of sorts: www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/organic-milk-is-healthier-than-conventional-milk-study-says/

Meat and eggs because I believe animals should be treated better, and I think it tastes better, and the meat hasn't been pumped with water etc. But a good butcher can sell good quality non-organic meat, too.

Vegetables - I tend not too on the whole, but it depends what I am doing with them. So tomatoes I prefer organic - they tend to taste better. Similarly organic salad is often tastier. I can't tell the difference with onions etc.

Meat is the obvious one (though I do not eat it).

Try Aldi or a box scheme if you want to keep costs down. Also if you have any space outside you can have a few raspberries and strawberries easily enough. I'd rather do without meat in order to have organic fruit/veg. Healthier on all counts. Avoid pig meat and chicken and try and get beef and lamb, more likely to have been wandering around in fields and hills than stuck in huge sheds being sprayed with antibiotics and disinfectant.

In Europe animals who have had antibiotics aren't allowed to be used for food - that's meat or eggs/dairy. - that's not true Bertie.

Compassion in World Farming has lots of information on this. Antibiotic use is quite high.

Dairy, fruit and vegetables. I don't eat meat.
I also use organic shower gel and body lotion.

I read somewhere that potatoes really absorb pesticides etc so are the most important things to buy organic, and milk

Carrots because they are one of the most sprayed vegetables

Eggs and milk

And meat, chicken etc, but I rarely buy them because I can't be bothered to clean the oven often because we eat veggie food most of the time.

Eggs and milk here, meat too.