Organic food

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jimmy2 · 13/02/2006 13:18

Which would you choose for your toddler/ child, a meal that is organic, no artificial flavours, colourings etc, but costs about £3.50 or a meal again with no additvives colourings , transfat etc, which is made from good, proper ingredients is handmade and costs £2.50?

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Lio · 13/02/2006 13:28

Sometimes one, sometimes t'other.

motherfunkerhunkermunker · 13/02/2006 13:29

Either.

nikkie · 13/02/2006 13:43

Ideally the organic one but finaces usually have to come iinto it.

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jimmy2 · 13/02/2006 14:19

It is difficult. I work during the week, so my toddler is fed at the nursery but at the weekends it is impossoble to find time to cook myself as I am trying to play catch up. I know that the organic ones are supposed to be better. What types of meals Organic & non organic have you tried?

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shrub · 13/02/2006 14:31

soil association pesticides and protective clothing
I found this leaflet in a shop a few years ago and it made me realise you can't wash the pecticides off the food, otherwise the rain would have the same effect. i now pay extra for the organic. not much in price difference though as we use local farm

MissChief · 13/02/2006 14:31

well, organic the ideal, but good, fresh, home-made food sounds pretty good.

Filyjonk · 13/02/2006 14:34

You are saying, all things being equal, organic or non organic?

Organic. Big financial priority for us. For ethical and health reasons.

Can you find time to do a once-a-month big cook? I did this even when working, and ds took meals in with him. (they fed him salty crap there, tbh). Its really easy-just make a load of stuff like pasta sauce, freeze it & defrost as needed.

IlanaK · 13/02/2006 14:40

I am guessing this is a business question rather than a home cooking one.

If this is the case, then as a consumer I would choose the organic one. We eat out with the kids and I would always choose organic if possible. Even at center parcs recently they had a few different kids menus in the resteraunts and one was organic but pricier. I chose that one.

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jimmy2 · 13/02/2006 16:44

Hi Shrub
Thank you for the link to Soil Association, I have downloaded the PDF, it makes for scarey reading.

I guess you just try to justify spending the extra, but you want to do what's right for your little one. When we go out, we usually take some food with us & just give our toddler vegetables from our plates as there really is rarely anything suitable on the menu except baked potato!

What do you do?

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