I do but I'm not super strict about it. Basically I buy organic if it's convenient to do so (our grocery store always has organic milk, meat, certain fruits and vegetables, etc.) but if they don't carry an organic option of a particular fruit that I'm craving I'll still buy it and serve it to the kids. I also hardly ever bother with organic packaged food.
We buy organic fruits and veggies when possible. We always buy the dirty dozen organic and anything else that's not outlandishly more expensive than non-organic. We eat organic grass fed beef (we split a half cow with another family every year). We buy RBST free milk and other dairy products but not specifically organic milk... for a long time we bought organic grass fed non-homogenized milk but DD hates the flavor and won't drink it anymore, so we switched to more "normal" grocery store milk.
We will, per the recommendation of our pediatrician and my own research.
By that, I mean organic milk and eggs (I will be unable to wean H from his Tillamook cheese). We also plan on buying half a cow and half a pig from a local farmer; grass fed, no anti-biotics, etc. Meat and dairy should be organic, in my totally uneducated opinion.
Said opinion brought to you by a girl who went through puberty at 11 and had boobs big enough to have a reduction and STILL end up with D's. I blame the hormones in the Costco chicken breasts we had 3x/ week for dinner.
We buy organic whenever possible. Always for the following items:
-dirty dozen list -meat -dairy (milk, cheese, yogurt, etc.) -eggs
Whatever the debate about it being a joke, I say we can afford it and I will take any added benefit. (I would be more worried about the hormones for little girls.)
I buy organic for the dirty dozen and also buy organic milk and eggs. Sadly, I do not bother with organic meat. So I guess I am kind of taking away any good that we are doing with the other organic stuff, huh? The good news for now is that DS doesn't really like meat, so his diet is mainly organic. However, daycare provides food and I know that is not organic. So there is that to consider.
Post by fortmyersbride on Dec 15, 2012 17:22:48 GMT -5
We buy the hormone free milk and yogurt, organic cheese, cage free eggs, and usually free range meat. Then produce I try to get organic unless I'm removing a peel.
Post by savannah11 on Dec 15, 2012 21:06:03 GMT -5
No, just eggs consistently. I'm more focused on reading labels and ensuring that the product contains few, real ingredients. I picked up a store brand tomato soup once and the first ingredient was "roasted tomato flavoring". That was promptly put back.
Reading the ingredient list usually results in us buying more organic but whether the product is organic or not does not sway me.
I feel like it is more important to buy organic animal related products, than it is to buy organic fruits or veggies.
Having said that, Kids and I are probably at around 80% organic for animal products (meat, eggs, yogurt, milk) . I usually get organic chicken breast and ground beef. I don't cook with much meat, so that helps our grocery budget. We eat a ton of dairy and eggs though.
DH lifts weight and eats a lot of protein (non organic) meat, but he buys and cooks it for himself, and the kids and I don't really eat it.
We eat a lot of fruit. I buy some fruits organic, but only if it's convenient and a reasonable price. Usually it's at Costco.