Who can Afford Organic Food in an Economy like This?

A survey on the popularity of green cleaning products recently done, found that people in today's economic climate decline such a purchase in favor of ordinary supplies for a price difference as small as 50 cents. It can't be that different when it comes to organic food. This, routinely, costs as much as a third more than regular produce. What do families do when they would like to go organic for their health but just don't know how, given how expensive it can be?

Selective green-ness is a popular new way to make the move towards organic food. People just go organic for a few important purchases and head for the supermarket for everything else. They choose to go organic for the foods that they eat the most often. For many families, this can be a way to go organic in large part without making huge changes to the budget.

So how do you make the right strategic choices for your organic food purchases? What you need to do is to read up on the kinds of commercially farmed fruits and vegetables that happen to usually be the most pesticide-impregnated. Spinach, strawberries, grapes and potatoes seem to be the most polluted. With broccoli, onion, asparagus, bananas and oranges, even commercial farming isn't usually able to pollute them very much. So choosing organic only for stuff that doesn't belong in the most polluted group can be a way to save money and still reap the benefits of an organic diet. Let's look at a few more strategic choices you can make.

Milk happens to be a particularly important area where you need to turn organic. The production of milk in such large quantities requires very unhealthy factory farming methods. Cows are injected with massive quantities of antibiotics and hormones, and they live in a pesticide-soaked environment. All commercial milk contains some serious levels of chemicals. Since children drink lots of milk, switching to organic here should make a lot of sense.

Potatoes happen to often supply a full half of our entire vegetable diet. Since potatoes grow buried in the earth, they are completely in contact with heavily polluted soil. Switching to organic potatoes can easily make a huge change in the safety level of your diet. Almost all potatoes in the supermarket happen to be quite polluted. The same goes for anything made with peanuts.

It says a lot about how unhealthy the American diet is, that ketchup happens to be an important source of vegetable in the average American diet. Switch to organic ketchup; tomatoes can be some of the most heavily sprayed vegetables on Earth. And the same goes for apples.