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Buying Organic

Karen Humphery
Do I buy organic? No. On the weekend I went to the farmers market and tried to get some organic produce and it was probably about 50% higher than the grocery store. A lot of us are watching what we spend on groceries and I really cant afford to spend $4.00 on a can of green beans when I can get them at the store for $1.99.

How can you when to buy organic, or even what you should buy organic? There's a list called "The Dirty Dozen:" Blueberries, Strawberries, Lettuce, Nectarines, Peaches; things that you can't really scrub or wash off very well and the things that you should be buying organic because those things are retaining a lot of the pesticides. Even stuff like peaches, which are canned, are retaining a lot. So you may want to buy some organic canned peaches or even better, go get some peaches from a farm and do it yourself/ Its not really that hard.

There are things that you don't really have to buy organic because they don't retain any of the pesticides. That's stuff like watermelon, mangoes, bananas, onions, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage; those things you can buy just regular and it is probably going to be okay.