6 Surefire Ways to Buy Pesticide-Free Organics on a Budget

[wildflower]

I thought this article might be of help to some of you. It seems like buying organic is more and more difficult these days.

From http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/3016 :

6 Surefire Ways to Buy Pesticide-Free Organics on a Budget

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3. More and more of the bigger food warehouse stores (like Sam's Club, for example) are carrying organic items. If you can buy in bulk (dried beans, rice, canned tomatoes, organic coffee, etc.) this will save you a few dollars too. If you want to buy vegetables in greater quantities because of price, some will freeze nicely if slightly blanched beforehand. Asparagus, green beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, corn on the cob, turnips and squashes can all be frozen. Those that won't fare as well are salad greens, radishes, green onions, tomatoes and potatoes.
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5. The proliferation of websites that sell organic food and related items is ever-growing and with the incentive of free shipping on some sites, this may be a great alternative for you. Check out www.shopnatural.com for organics from baby food to pasta. Amy''s Kitchen offers some great non-frozen organic items like salsas, soups, and sauces. Another site called BREADnBRIE, located in New York, touts their site as an online gourmet supermarket (with green delivery) and carries a nice variety of organic foods. Amazon.com is even dabbling in selling organic grocery store items, so you'll have a variety of sources from which to choose.

6. Just as you search for coupons in your local supermarket flyers (or watch them haphazardly fall out of your weekend newspaper), many of the organic brand websites offer a way to print out coupons too. Organic Valley, Taste the Dream (Rice and Soy Dream products) and R.W. Knudsen products, all offer coupons. If you don't have access to a printer, some of the websites will simply send you the coupons if you supply your snail mail address.

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What To Do When You Can't Find Organics Or Pesticide-Free Fruits and Vegetables? If you don't have the advantage of buying organic and your local supermarket only carries fruits and vegetables that have been sprayed with pesticides, check out a produce shopping list that gives you the skinny on items grown with the least amount of harmful chemicals or what we consider the lesser of two chemical evils.

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-wildflower

[DesertRat]

1. Thanks. k&r

[Luminous Animal]

2. Other ideas

Buy farmer direct. The organic produce is significantly cheaper and some programs allow you to add items that you like and delete ones that you don't.

For those of you who live in San Francisco, the telephone book has 20% off coupons for Rainbow Grocery. It's good every other month starting in February.

[crispini]

3. K&R

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[DeepModem Mom]

4. K&R