If you had to buy only 5 items of organic produce, what would they be?

[MrsJamin]

What are the most worthwhile things to buy 'organic'?

Currently exclusively breastfeeding, planning what to buy nearly-6 month old for BLW weaning and I don't know whether it's worth it to buy organic for him, considering I don't eat any organic food at the moment, so he will have got lots of non-organic nastiness through my milk anyway. Should I bother or just save my pennies for something more interesting?

Potatoes
Carrots
Butter
Milk

These are the only things I buy organic versions of... the potatoes+carrots just taste better, and the organic milk is supposed to be higher in omega 3 or summat.

The best thing to do is try to buy local as the stuff is far fresher than anything in a shop and therefore more nutritious. Don't sweat it tho - enjoy it!

Chicken
beef
apples (they spray apples more then anything else)
milk
cheese

milk

meat

apples

eggs

pears

carrots
bananas
apples (although I dont buy organic as mine are all addicted to Pink Ladies)
milk

meat (although I dont tend to buy organic I buy local free range stuff instead)

milk, veg & fruit that can't be peeled

Apples
Carrots
Milk
Butter
Meat

Milk, meat & poultry are the only things I always buy organic.

meat
carrots

oh I don't know

Not fish that's for sure.

Organic food can still contain pestisides, only approved ones.

i only buy organic carrots when in the supermarket tbh, every thign else is the cheapy version

I used to buy more organic but resent the huge price increases from the supermarkets

I buy most of mien from the farm shop where they are not organic as far as I know

milk & meat

oh yes and only buy organic milk

so:
milk

and

carrots

thats it

Milk. I very rarely buy non organic milk. (although I do get non-organic butter and cheese.. )

I read a list once of the things it was worth buying organic and the only one I remember is milk A lot of the others actually had very little difference between organic/non-organic. Bananas was another one I think - they're sprayed a phenomenal amount of times during their growing season IIRC.

in 2000, the store Iceland went all organic and this coincided with weaning DD. Plus she was my pfb. Consequently she has had a lot more organic produce than DS who will be weaned in a few weeks. I just cannot afford to buy organic on my mat pay. 3 organic apples or 10 non-organic? No contest, in my book. I need to give my family fresh fruit and veg daily and to do that I cannot go organic. I do not have the resources to buy much organic produce and I'm not going to worry to much either.

Once you get used to organic milk, 'normal' milk smells horrible - sort of fishy.

I always buy organic milk though, always.

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carrots. i have heard bad things re what they are sprayed with and gvt advice is too peel them thickly.

eggs sometimes as they are nicer.

I always buy organic milk, meat, chicken and eggs. If I'm faced with choice between organic or free range chicken and eggs then I will usually go for free range, but I prefer if they are both free range and organic.

I've just checked the milk that I use, and it's not organic because I only have goats' milk, but ds has organic cows' milk.

I buy organic fruit and veg that is watery quite often (tomatoes, cucumber etc) because they suck up a lot of fluid that could be pesticide laden. I worry less about fruit and veg that I will be washing and peeling.

I buy nearly everything organic but if I had to choose:

Milk
Kids' fruit - apples, grapes, bananas
Carrots

Meat from butchers only (not sure if organic tbh but it's 100% better than supermarket shit)

Must admit - I've gone back to non-organic cucumber as the price difference is huge - I think it was 97p for an organic one in Tesco and under 50p for a non-organic one.

root vegetables
soft fruit
cucumber/salad stuff
apples
milk

there is no conclusive research that organic is actually better for us.

Also, it's alright for us here in the west, but organic isn't actually sustainable as a method for producing enough food to feed the world. We just wouldn't be able to do it, the world isn't big enough.

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