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If you are just joining us, be sure to read Understanding Organics Part One: All Natural Does Not Mean Organic and Understanding Organics Part Two: Organic Doesn’t Always Mean Healthy.
One of my biggest pet peeves is that people “knock it before they try it,” when it comes to organic foods. There seems to be this mindset that organic means things like “gross,” “health nut,” “foodie,” or food that tastes like cardboard. If you read the first part of this series on understanding organics, then you know that organic means that something is free of pesticides and chemicals. That is hardly a qualifier for grossness. In fact I would venture to say that if your food isn’t organic and contains things like fertilizers, pesticides, antibiotics, food additives, genetically modified organisms, irradiation, and sewage sludge, then I would definitely cry out GROSS!
Organic seems to be associated with terms like “healthy” and “diet”. Organic food isn’t diet food, meaning that it’s not always lacking in flavor, salt and fat. It’s not like fat-free foods, that I will admit usually do not taste good. As you learned in the previous post, organic doesn’t always mean healthy, so it’s time to separate in your mind what organic exactly means. It means free of pesticides, chemicals, genetically modified organisms and so on and so forth…
If you still don’t believe me, or have a friend that you are trying to convince. Here are five yummy organic food items to try. If they don’t convince you that organic doesn’t mean gross, then nothing will!
1. Organic milk doesn’t taste any different than regular milk. If anything, it has a richer and more wholesome flavor.
2. Annie’s Homegrown Organic Fruit Snacks
3. YummyEarth Organic Lollipops
4. Cascadian Farm Organic Cinnamon Crunch Cereal
5. Newman’s Own Organics Creme Filled Chocolate Cookies
By no means am I recommending that you eat all of these sweets, but these are just some examples of organic foods that are in fact tasty. Just remember that to stay healthy, sweets should be eaten in moderation.
What will you find when it comes to the taste of many organic foods? Most of the time you will find items that aren’t as sweet as regular processed foods. This is because there isn’t high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and chemical sweeteners like splenda, aspartame and sucralose added into everything. And with today’s obesity and diabetes statistics, it’s time to be moving away from these anyway!
What are some of your favorite tasty organic food items?
I am not a health professional and this post is not meant to give medical advice. Seek a health professional before drastically changing your diet.
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Organic has always meant “clean” & “free” of the things we do not want in or on our bodies …….I am loving this article!
I like organic cream cheese better than regular cream cheese.
I love those YummyEarth lollipops. Will try the Annie’s Fruit Snacks the next time I go to Costco.
There are so many yummy things that are organic and aren’t even sweets too. We’ve discovered so many great FLAVORS in so many foods. Who knew food could taste so good?! Lettuce DOES have flavor. My husband hates cucumbers but loves our local organic farmer’s cucumbers. The peppers that farmer grows are to die for. I don’t like yogurt much, but some of the organic yogurts are great, especially served with baked apples. I also don’t like eggs much, but our local farmers eggs are worth eating plain (scrambled, hard boiled, etc).
Thanks for trying to inform your readers about organic foods. I switched slowly over to organics about 15 years ago before they became more available. I am very glad to see it as there are more options and the prices are more reasonable than in the past.
I think mainstream media plays a part in confusing the public, as they rather push the foods of their advertisers, and not be entirely truthful when it comes to the fact if organics are better for us and our families.
At a previous nanny position, I shared the week with another nanny as it was a 60-hr week. Anyway, the family purchased organic yogurt and other foods for the baby. The other nanny said to me one day, “no baby should be eating organic food!” I didn’t understand her reasoning, and she brought up the tainted salad with e-coli issue from a couple of years ago. I was so surprised to hear someone think that organic foods were BAD for babies instead of better for babies. Anyway, there is plenty of confusion out there, so thanks again!
Have you tried Late July cookies? They’re fantastic!
I have found that people automatically believe its gross just from the words, I have been in stores where someone will read the label and you hear “Organic? Eww, gross, put it back” I mean seriously? They just have this mind set and the only way to change it is by not telling people you know that its organic till after they taste it. Its crazy that even when it comes down to fruits and veggies people say the same thing, I mean that to me is even more funny than if it were a lollipop. I am starting out on the organic trial, its been a bit hard on the wallet persay. So I just love your blog, shows how to save money, you are doing a great job.