Shopping for Organic Foods to Fill Your Pantry

Shopping for organic ingredients is not as hard as it once was. It isn’t as hard as it was a few years ago either. You can now find many organic ingredients at your local Target store.

Still there are a few tips to getting Organic ingredients.

The first thing I recommend to getting organic ingredients, remember the closer you have towards scratch the more quality control you have. Yes, there are organic TV dinners. Now take a look at the content. Organic does not always equate to being healthy for you.  Organic sugar and fat are just as bad for you calorie and health wise as the non-organic. You may be missing some of the preservatives and chemicals, but fat is fat and calories are calories.

If you are going to spend your money on organic, go for the good stuff. Make your food dollar count.

Like they tell dieters, shop the outsides of the store.  This is the area where there is the produce, the dairy, the meat. All of these can now be found in organic varieties. Instead of that organic prepackaged enchilada, pick up some certified organic chicken, herbs, produce and tortillas. Remember the fresher the ingredients, the more nutrients that are in the ingredients.

You can skip the megamarket altogether as well. Many health food stores are now offering a wide variety of organic ingredients. I live in a small town and belong to a co-op. They offer organic flours, rice, oatmeal, eggs and milk. What makes this nice is that much from the co-op is more local than say the mega-market. For me organic eggs from the co-op come from right here in my own state. The ones at the grocery store came from across the country.

Eating organic can be a simple way of life. Think of the easy things that you can fix. My pizza crust recipe for example. I have on hand organic flour and yeast and oil. This is all stuff that I use on a regular basis. When I decided to go organic this was one of the first things I did, switch my staples as they ran out.

Organic cheese and vegetables can be bought at the co-op, farmers market or at the megamarket. I canned my own sauce, so it is not certified organic, but I know where they came from, and they were not grown with any chemicals. The same with my herbs I grew and dried this past summer.

This makes for a very simple meal.  One that I know is healthy and chemical free. There are no preservatives. Start with the simple basic things. The comfort food and build from there while you change your pantry over to organic staples.