How important is organic to you?

[MamaPenelope]

Morning Mummies and Daddies,

Hope you're all well.

I was wondering how important is organic baby and child food to you? I don't know whether to swap completely to organic with the kids. Are the benefits better? What does everyone else do?

Penny xx

It is not my highest priority. I think vegetables full stop are more important than organic vegetables.
I grew up on a non organic dairy farm.
I also think the pricing is prohibitive to a lot of families, and that those families shouldn't be made to feel bad because of that.

My biggest priority was avoiding processed foods....would go for home cooked over processed organic any day. Then I check labels often organic has less crap in it but it can still be full of sugar and void of nutrition.

I've never thought of buying ready-made organic meals/snacks as at the end of the day it's still processed and will have barely any nutrients regardless of the fact that it is free of growth hormones/antibiotics/pesticides.

It's important for me to buy as much organic fruit/veg/meat and dairy as I can afford each week - a lot of non-organic fertilisers/pesticides are derived from petro-chemicals and if I don't want to put them on my son's skin then I definitely don't want him to eat them!

For the kids I buy organic meat and dairy but don't worry about vegetables or fruit unless on special offer.

I do buy some organic sachets for our 8 month old DTs for emergencies (sometimes fatigue-related) they tend to have less odd ingredients in them so I feel happier I know what's going in them.