How many of you choose organic over normal foodstuffs?

[Fio2]

I am quite amazed at how much organic stuff people buy on here, with repect to looking at what your child ate yesterday thread. I have to say I buy no or very little organic foods (not that I can get hold of any!) and if mumsnet represents a 'typical' population how come the variety of organic foods is so minimal? And how do you all afford to buy organic milk? My kids drink nearly a full six pinter a day between them (is this excessive? )

This is when I'm glad I don't like fish.

Tinker i buy co-op because I have a dividend card and i get some money back hahahahahahahahaha

I mostly buy from our local farmers markets and/or from farm shops (plus we have a sort of high street farmers market shop which only sells local produce), and a local butcher who specialises in rare breeds. Personally I'm more inclined to go for local, accredited and known source foods than for organic for the sake of it (which doesn't mean we never have organic - our local mill does Organic flour for example). Don't see the point of getting organic beans flown in from Africa, when I can buy, say, locally grown, but non organic, Asparagus straight from the farm.

I only eat wild salmon for all those reasons too. Luckily my brother catches it so is free!

Foxinsocks: the frozen Alaskan salmon is in the big frozen section, along with bags of cod fillets, coley fillets and the like. 8 pieces in a plastic bag, I think. They don't always have it - and only in the big branches.

Toothache/Sophable: but aren't parasites common in wild carniverous fish too? My mum bought a wild salmon when I was a kid - (before they invented farmed salmon, believe me!), and these horrible nemotode worms were rearing up out of it's inside bits! And another MN-er told me that no chef will eat swordfish because they are riddled with huge worms!

Fio, we go through a six pinter a day as well, mainly for ds1 and 2 .

Cd, dh won't eat farmed salmon either. I hate any salmon but tinned, with cucumber and vinegar (old childhood eastendness coming out).

I do eat freshly caught fish so thats ok? god you should see some of the stuff that gets washed up on beaches

LOL lou you sound like my nige!

rip a bit off the leaf and try it

He must be lovely as well then Fio

Am not a big fish fan. I like meat or veggies. I like fishfingers, and tinned tuna, does that count? Also partial to prawns and mussels, with the odd scallop thrown in.

I have 3 onions growing among my flowers that the kids planted and forgot about, does that count as organic ?

Blu - Oh yes, parasites are common in all wild fish too, but not to extent that it makes the animal ill. If a Salmon in the wild had THAT many liver flukes it wouldn't survive for very long let alone breed. As the rule "Survival of the fitest" doesn't apply in farmed fish you can be eating fish that were not exactly on top form IYKWIM.

Pie and mash though!

Titters as she adjusts her pearly queen outfit and gor blimeys off down the road....

sorry CD, wasn't suggesting that you buy tonnes of oven chips! I should have written "why one would buy..."

I have long been aware about farmed salmon, have to go to London markets to get wild ones though, there is no comparison in all the world, but then I'd rather starve as the price is murderous even at market...
I buy a lot of organic through delivery service and through local greengrocer too, I will not buy from supermarkets when I can buy local or get organic delivered.
Chicken too, the taste is beyond compare.
Call me fussy, I am

You're so fussy Piffy

we get a fair bit of organic food : milk, chicken, yoghurs, butter,tomatoes,some fruit and veg too. Also try to get organic red meat on the rare occasions we have it.I would never buy non organic chicken as I have read too many repulsive accounts of how the chickens are force fed, crippled, injected,drown in faeces etc....yuk! the organic meat is a lot more expensive though.Also get a few fairtraid products regularly too.

Drink far too much unorganic booze though LOL

Lou - Sunday night tea - cakes and salmon sandwiches with vinegar and cucumber - ooohhhh didn't we think we were grand!!

OMG Blu, I've just read your post about fish and worms (shudder) and very nearly lost my lunch. You should have posted a warning above that - yikes!

Sorry Aloha! Will remember to post 'squeam warning' in future. (the mn-er in question told us about swordfish over the most DELICIOUS seafood quiche.. )

Thanks Toothache: that makes sense.