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Merryday
Farmgirl in Training
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Mary
Kansas
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 Posted - May 22 2006 : 5:56:48 PM
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I am trying my darndest to feed my little farmgirl (almost 1 year) healthy foods. So far, we're off to a pretty good start, she loves meat, cheese and veggies (not a big fan of sweets, believe it or not!). Anyway, I am fretful about organic foods. Ideally, I would love to feed her ONLY organic, but it is soooo pricey and we're on a pretty strict budget. Any suggestions?
Thanks for sharing!
"As you travel through life, remember your goal, keep your eye on the doughnut, and not on the hole" - something my Pop used to say |
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UrbanChick
True Blue Farmgirl
331 Posts
Ayako
Atlanta
GA
USA
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Posted - May 22 2006 : 6:26:28 PM
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Do you have any local CSA organic gardeners? I found that they are pretty reasonable for organic vegetables and fruit if you are willing to make your own baby food and such. I also found Whole Foods market to be pretty reasonable for organic. When I switched my family to organic we just had to increase our food budget. We just had to make a few changes like my DH brown bags it to work, I cook alot more from scratch, and grow my own veggies. Surprisingly enough some major grocery stores are selling more organic foods like Super Walmart.
"Courage dosen't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying: I will try again tomorrow." |
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garliclady
True Blue Farmgirl
274 Posts
Reidsville
NC
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Merryday
Farmgirl in Training
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Mary
Kansas
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Posted - May 23 2006 : 07:46:52 AM
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Thanks for the pointing me to the local harvest website! It is wonderful -- I love that they have "fibers" products too.
"As you travel through life, remember your goal, keep your eye on the doughnut, and not on the hole" - something my Pop used to say |
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jallibunn
Farmgirl in Training
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Jodi
Missoula
MT
USA
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Posted - May 25 2006 : 8:05:56 PM
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The suggestions for farmer's markets are excellent--doing that and/or a CSA will save you bundles on organic veggies. Most importantly, they will be local, which is more important than organic in many ways.
Another thing you can do is to prioritize what you buy organic. Dairy and meat really need to be organic for her sake--you don't want her to ingest synthetic hormones and antibiotic residues; ditto for any fats, which are concentrated. But it may be less important for all of your grains to be organic. Yes, it's ideal--and awfully important to support organic farmers. And I'd be more likely to follow the suggestions above about cutting back in other ways.
We find that by getting all our vegetables from a CSA, almost all our fruit in bulk directly from farmers, and shopping in bulk for most of our grains/beans/other dry good, we eat for much less money than the USDA average for our family, even though we eat almost exclusively organic food. We also run two freezers, have two root cellars, and can a lot, so there's a significant investment of (mostly my) labor.
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