Costco:
- Organic Whole Chickens (After watching Food, Inc., I never want to eat conventional chicken again. Watch it!)
- Organic Ground Beef (More epensive and very similar to the kind I buy at Whole Foods, so I will probably go back to the WF kind, but I wanted to try it... It comes in nice neat packages for freezing :) This kind is grain-finished. I would like to buy 100% grassfed, but it is so expensive, so this is a compromise....)
- Kerrygold Butter (But regular butter for baking.)
- Tillamook Cheddar (From growth hormone free cows.)
- Organic Eggs (From cage-free, but not necessarily pastured chickens.)
- Organic Strawberry Spread (HFCS free, but not sugar free.)
- Daisy Sour Cream (More epensive than the stuff at Aldi, but none of the fillers/preservatives.)
- Plain yogurt (We like to mix in honey and the frozen blueberries. From growth hormone free cows.)
Question: I have always bought salted butter until the last time I went shopping. I decided to get some unsalted... But I noticed that the ingredient label for unsalted reads: cream, natural flavorings (?!) What are the "natual flavorings" in there? Anyone know? I don't like the sound of that. I think I'll take plain old salt, please. (And then just reduce the salt elsewhere in the baking recipe, if desired.)
Thanks for listening to my thoughts.
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Have you read the book "The Omnivore's Dilemma"? It changed my thinking on "Organic". It's a great read and completely fascinating.
No, I haven't - I just reserved at the library, though! Thanks for the heads up.
I'm currently reading his other book that I mentioned. It is soooo interesting to me, so I'm sure that one will be, too.
"Organic" doesn't mean everything, right? That label can be slapped on almost anything it seems... I know there are more ideal options. I just wish they were more available and easy - but then they probably wouldn't be ideal anymore :) !
Okay, you girls are freaking me out. I hadn't even heard of Food, Inc. until I watched the Oscars from my DVR the other night. It sounded interesting at the time, but now I feel a sense of urgency to watch it.
Should I be scared?
Katie, I'm guessing most of it is stuff that you've heard, but wish weren't true. At least that's how it was for me. I wanted my husband to watch it, but it wasn't until a coworker of his also told him to, that he asked me about it. So I'm hoping we can watch it together soon. I think it is a great piece for discussion!
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