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I found this article interesting and thought you all might as well.

http://www.horizonorganic.com/raising/prescription.html#top

I've recently started buying this brand of milk for the girls. Man, with the price of this stuff, you can bet we are paying much more attention to not wasting anyway!!

In all seriousness, though, milk and chicken are the two areas I'm trying really hard to go organic. The articles I'm reading about why girls are hitting puberty earlier and earlier each year just scare the crap out me!

love that site, thanks

i buy organic everytime its available, especially in baby food.

What grocery stores have a good selection of organic products? We just visited Walmart for the last time, I promise I will never go back in that store, so we are looking for a new grocery store! lol Maybe foodmax or publix?

Publix has a decent selection of organic and Target (it's a Super-Target) does too. Manna Grocery sells organic produce grown locally by Snow's Bend Farm, as well as some other organic produce and lots of other natural food products.
Not surpised that milk is # 1 on the list of what you should buy organic, considering it appears on Horizon's website! Of the things on that list, we always buy organic milk and generally organic cheese, same with potatoes, apples, corn chips, ketchup. The foods that tend to have the highest pesticide residue and the ones that the kids eat most days are the ones I try esepcially hard to stay organic with.

I am not suprised that peanut butter made the list. I read that it was the most unhealthy think you could eat and that organic peanut butter was the way to go. Should read Dr Don Colbert's Seven Pillars of Health book, it is wonderful and it will make you think and change how you live, and how you let your family live.

http://www.sevenpillarsofhealth.com/

I always give Jack organic milk. He drinks it three times a day. So I'm fine paying the extra money for it. I find it cheapest at Target.
I also buy organic peanut butter for him. And yogurt. And cheese. And then just random other things I see and buy.
Unfortunately, it's just too expensive to go organic all the way. Or I would.

Same with me, Kristi. I don't mind paying extra for the things Ben consumes daily. I also am particular about fruits and veggies that have thin or porous peels. I usually don't buy those at all if I can't get them organic. Some other things, I'm more lax about. We try to make a big trip to Whole Foods in Bham every few weeks and stock up. I wish we had one here!

When did you all try peanut butter with your los? I'm nervous to try it with all the reports of increased peanut allergies in kids. I asked my pediatrican if we could try peanut butter for the first time in his waiting room!

I remember eating such total crap as a kid. It's amazing how much more conscientious we are now about what we feed our kids!

Speaking of food books...has anyone read "The Omnivore's Dillema" or "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan? Both are great....very informative.

This is making me hungry....

MMDM, you might be interested to know that at Publix out on Rice Mine Road they have some very nice-looking organic peaches and nectarines right now. I got some last night. They could use a little ripening time on the counter, but they're pretty good and it's not something you can find all the time.

MMDM: We started peanut butter at one with each girl. From all I've read, you only need to hold off if peanut allergies run in your family.

Lawmommy - where in the produce section do find the organic fruit? I go to the publix in northport on mcfarland, and I can't remember seeing organic fruit other than bananas.

Also, tell me more about organic peanut butter. We eat a LOT of peanut butter. I haven't bought organic yet. I guess because I was scarred by buying all natural peanut butter once and it was very oily and tasted gross. Is organic like that too? Or does it taste more like "regular" peanut butter?

Moozle, I think the organic bananas are with the rest of the bananas, right? The other organic stuff is separate. At the Rice Mine location it's at the beginning of the produce section, just past the juice, on both the left and right. They have apples, oranges, lettuce, carrots, usually broccoli and/or cauliflower, and other stuff that varies. I'm not sure about the other Northport location - I haven't been there lately.
About peanut butter, I haven't tried the organic, but the natural in general is very good, I think, but you have to make sure you stir it very well to keep the oil from separating. Sometimes I think it's also the lack of sugar that is hard for people to adjust to, but if you mix little honey in with the natural stuff, it's yummy!

I personally have never tried the organic peanut butter but I feed it to my husband and older son. It is oily looking but only bcs the oil seperates from the peanut butter and you have to keep organic refridgerated while the regular kind you can keep it in the pantry. The oils are different in organic than it is in regular, its healthier. When you open it you have to mix it up really well and it will no seperate after that. With like other organic foods it is something you have to get used to. With the organic peanut butter and organic oatmeal it has taken my DH a few weeks to get used to but he likes it now. My son could care less, he cant even tell the difference between peanut butter and regular butter With organic bananas vs the regular bananas my DH says the organic ones are SOOOO much better, he loves them.

LM....thanks for the tip on the nectarines and peaches--I'll pick some up tonight.

We eat natural PB, too. The key is definitely to mix it well. I usually turn it upside down and leave it in the pantry for a few days before opening it. We also love almond butter, which is a bit more expensive, but very yummy and healthy.

Yes, almond butter is good, and as I've posted before, we eat cashew butter over here.

Hey, I thought I would let y'all know that Target has organic nectarines and plums in 2 lb. packages for $6.99 (not bad for so much) and organic strawberries are $2.99 for a 1-lb. container, which is a great price.

Ooohhh....yummy! Thanks for the tip!