Choosing Healthy Foods - photo by D. Hennessey

I remember when I first left home my Mum told me that I could save money by shopping the outside aisles inside a grocery store. She is right the outside aisles are typically the areas in stores were they have their non processed foods. The inside aisles have the processed food and it is the processed and packaged foods that cost more money due to the extra labor costs involved.

So today one of the ways my familly and I save money on our organic food shopping trips is we remember to shop the outside aisles. Check it out for yourself when you have time.

Cheers,

David

Organic Strawberry Study - photo by D. Hennessey

The Public Library of Science Journal has just published an article by researchers from Washington State University that brings forward new information in favor of the value of organic food farming.

Side by side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit found the organic farms produced berries more nutritious and more full of flavor and also left the soil healthier and more genetically diverse.

You may have read that conventional strawberries are the third most pesticide contaminated conventional fruit in the market. This I wrote about in the article about the handy Environmental Working Group’s dirty dozen guide.

Here is the full abstract from The Public Library of Science Journal or you can read the announcement in the Washington State University Relations Magazine

Good News to share,

David

By the way, you may also want to read another news release I posted recently on the organic versus conventional farming debate. The study article is here.

Organic Apples in Season often a great purchase - photo by D. Hennessey

If you are looking to cut the cost of your organic food shopping list another way is to avoid not only buying prepared foods like organic biscuits/cookies/cakes etc but by also not buying items like organic vegetables and fruits that are already peeled or cut and prepared in some way to eat right away.

Indeed, it is easy to grab a bag of organic carrots already peeled from the local store but then you do you are paying extra for someone’s time. If you want to save a little bit here and there on the cost of organic food buy the regular carrots and peel them yourself when you are ready to eat them.

Personally, in our home we find fresh unpeeled carrots keep fresher than peeled carrots in a bag that is opened but remember if you have fresh carrots with the green tops. Take the green tops off or they will draw water out of the carrots and make them less tasty.

Enjoy a great day,

David