How many of you choose organic over normal foodstuffs?

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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? )

YUK ALERT!
I also remember that mackerel we caught and gutted when I was a kid was always full of intestines which were positively heaving with wrigglers....

A bad grammar alert may have been appropriate, too.

What's wrong with oven chips? Just checked the ingredients - potatoes and sunflower oil and that's all.

I ate some smoked mackerel the other day. Oh dear. This is all not good. I'm sticking with oven chips!

They're not very tasty.
(ones fried in tons of lard and dripping are better IMO)

blu

But you done' EAT the intestinal parasites - they all get ripped out in the gutting process.
Best not to eat whitebait....

I used to work in a poshish restraunt and whitebait got ordered constantly .....bleurgh

poshish for wolverhampton that is

i wouldn't eat whitebait anyway - because of the eyes, faces.... yeuchh.

Ironically, dd1 probably eats less organic stuff than I do because she eats lunch and tea at her childminder. We do get a fair bit of organic stuff, delivered by hunky young antipodeans every Wednesday and the only chance I get to invite muscular young men into my kitchen

Oh dear

I love whitebait] smoked mackerel and oven chips

I can't hack whitebait...guts, fins, eyes....
But love fresh mussels. Best not to look at them before eating though. All that green stuff in their stomachs...

organic and uk produced everything... but will sometimes choose uk over organic... e.g. english apples vs organic apples flown in from new zealand... we're quite lucky as our milkman delivers organic milk (although dh has been having run in with the dairy over the price and has been threatening to go to sainsbury's!), mil plays farmer, so we get all our pork, beef, lamb and eggs from them (incidentally just come back from a weekend helping with the tagging and bagging of one of the cows!!! dd helping chucking the meat down the mincer!!! ), there's an organic butcher down the road for essential chicken and dh is a real veggie gardener so all our veggies come straight from the garden... sorry to be a bit smug here ... but i must admit that it's very satisfying to sit down to a dinner where i know that the veg has just come in fresh from the garden, the meat was well looked after and fed by mil, and of course beautifully cooked by a domestic goddess!!! me of course!

Whitebait fritters are popular in NZ as are paua fritters.. (abalone)

we always buy organic as much as possible. The animals have definately had a healthier and happier life IMO (hardly eat meat though and dh is vegetarian)

Whitebait in NZ are different - they are long and slim with barely discernible features, whereas when I've had them here they are more like little fish!

I thought olive oil was no good for deepfrying as it had low burning(?) point. Rapeseed oil is very cheap and almost as good for you. Re oven chips, for some reason DS won't eat homemade wedges but will consume mashed potato - strange child!

My consumption of organic is erratic. Always try to buy free range meat, poultry and eggs, but not necessarily organic. Don't buy organic milk but do buy organic carrots and potatoes! Don't care about locally sourced apart from when it affects the taste eg Morrocan beans are tasteless, but I buy Dutch peppers and aubergines without qualms. Boycott Israeli produce as well... No logic I know.

I buy organinc when i can for Lottie but not for us. Can't afford to do it for us and we're beyond helping!

Is Mackerel bad? I thought it was caught happily swimming in the sea (well happy till it was caught I guess) rather than being farmed etc. so would only have 'natural' intestinal worms which come out when gutted. Have just given it to kids for tea

And don't forget the dairy cream sponge, that was still a bit frozen in the middle , Twinkie.

euuuuu...nearly lost my lunch! was happily munching down a salmon sahimi platter...!!
am trying not to think about it...bleeuuurrgghhhh
that's it! no more salmon for me....

out of interest I was looking at that Abel & Cole site. How do you know how much fruit and veg you are going to get? I looked at the fruit boxes and veggie ones and it just says e.g. apples, apricots, potatoes not how much/many you'll get.

foxinsocks - I have just recieved my first box. I got the 16 pounds one (mixed fruit and veg). I got about 6 banannas, 5 apples, a lettuce, about 8 carrots, a cucumber, 2 peppers, about 20 small potatos, 2 big broccoli, a melon, 4 tomatoes. They are all a good size. hope this helps

foxinsocks - the contents vary each week. If you look here it gives you two weeks worth of detailed contents for each box type.