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alison2379
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Anyone else eating all organic?
alison2379
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When DH and I first started talking about TTC, I switched us to pretty much 100% organic. The more I read about it, I'm glad I've been doing this for almost a year. It's expensive, but worth it, and I'll keep at it with kids. We've already talked about a baby food mill, etc.
As a side note, it's weird how we each have different standards for what will be helpful in TTC. This is probably not a common move. I eat organic, but kept the wine, for example!
Anyone else?
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Re: Anyone else eating all organic?
I think you have to do what works for you. I'm impressed you can eat all organic, I don't know what I would do without the occasional half-a-box of flourescent Kraft mac and cheese, for example. But we do eat hormone-free, free-range chicken and eggs. We eat organic meat in general, but we really only eat poultry and bacon (ha!). And in all honesty, I do tend to do those for my health, but also as an animal rights nerd.
You know they have organic wine, right
-not that my good old $3.99 shiraz from Trader's is getting traded in, because I love it!
To each their own. I'm not judging anyone for eating Big Macs, I just don't like burgers!
I switched us from regular pasta to whole grain pasta, and started buying more fruit & nuts and less junk, but I didn't go all the way to all-organic. I LOVE the idea of making my own baby food, though!
And I also am keeping the wine... and the margaritas
Me = lean PCOS;DH = poor morphology (3%)
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IVF #1 with ICSI: antagonist protocol = BFFN
IVF #2 with ICSI : Lupron downregulation = BFFN...FML
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TTC #2
i try to buy organic as much as possible, but sometimes items are hard to find without truckin' it to Whole Foods.
Also, they (the wine Gods, you know) make organic wine
i try to buy organic as much as possible, but sometimes items are hard to find without truckin' it to Whole Foods.
Also, they (the wine Gods, you know) make organic wine
I should have been more clear, we're almost 100% organic at home. What happens at Mickey D's stays at Mickey D's, and I don't object to it occasionally at all. All eating out is fair game to me.
My thing is the pesticides and hormones that can screw up our own hormones. I know, there are a thousand things we can do that can screw up our bodies, and I just wanted to know who had chosen this one with me.
I try to eat "cleaner" foods...we eat little to no processed foods, all our meat is hormone, antibiotic and if available grass fed meat. i try and buy mostly organic fruit and veggies but I can't always find some thing even at Whole Foods, so i try and pay attention to buy organic the things where we eat the skin (example apples, grapes etc)
I only buy 100% whole wheat pasta and grains...just educate yourself and read labels. I don't find it that much more expensive..but it definitely takes more time to plan etc.
Food Inc...a great movie to watch and go from there!
We switched to almost all organic, hormone-free dairy/poultry, and grassfed meats about a year ago. I'm not always consistant but most weeks I try to plan out our meals for the week ahead of time. It is pricey and requires some planning, but figured if we got into the habit now, it wouldn't be so hard to keep it up later. We bring our lunches to work too to prevent the Chick-Fil-A temptations
We also eliminated starches (breads, pastas, grains, white potatoes...) from our diet (mostly anyway, I just gotta have a sandwich or pasta once in ahwile!). Neither of us has had so much as the sniffles since we switched our diets a year ago (we exercise regularly too), and I no longer get crazy blood sugar highs & lows after I ate what I thought was a healty lunch of whole grain pasta with vegetables. MH lost 30 pounds and looks like he did when we first started dating 12 year ago
All that said though, I'm also on cycle 5, so I draw no conclusions with ttc
I also tried to switch to natural beauty products (mostly body wash and lotions).
We have tried to do what you have done. We are pretty much all organic on fruits and veggies. We have a list called the dirty dozen from ewg.com. It tells you which fruits and veggies are the best to buy organically and which have less pesticides and would be ok to buy not organic.
It is kind of interesting.
http://www.jakeala.etsy.com
I don't see anything wrong with some wine along with all your organic goodies!
I totally revamped my eating habits about a year ago. I now buy grassfed organic beef, pastured eggs and chicken, organic dairy, etc. from a local food co-op, so most of what we eat is local. I still have to shop at the grocery store for some essentials, but I shop organic there as well. I think it can only help our health (not to mention our TTC process) if we're consuming as few pesticides, chemicals, growth hormones and antibiotics as possible.
After that change, I started looking at my personal care products as well. I threw out most of my chemical-laden junk and now buy lotions, shampoos, etc. that don't have parabens, phthalates, etc. I had never had a second thought about these things at all, but the more research I did the angrier I got. I don't like being a guinea pig for chemicals that have not been proven safe (and very few of them have). I'm actually thinking about starting a blog about green beauty products because I've tried so many of them and found some great choices through trial and error.
Anyways, long story short... I really do feel like making these changes has had a really positive impact on my life. And I feel like I'm giving my future baby the best start possible by making myself as healthy as I can be...
That is why for typical grocery store purchases I don't purchase "organic" because there is no way to know if it really is or not and I'm not going to spend the money unless I know.
Agreed. The "natural" thing is particularly troubling. I get most of my veggies from a local certified organic farm, so I'm pretty comfortable with that. But I totally take it with a grain of salt when the label is slapped on to pretty much anything in a regular grocery store.
Yes, DH and I eat mostly organic. We bought 1/8th of a local organically raised cow and store the meat in our freezer. Usually do our shopping at Whole Foods, but we also go to Kroger and Meijer on occasion. All of our meat and dairy items are organic/grass-fed/pastured, and we use an organic delivery service for our fruits and veggies (www.doortodoororganics.com). We also avoid processed foods in general but partake in it more than we probably should. When we dine out I make the best choices I can and just slip up once in a while.
If the food is certified orgainc, then you know that it is truly organic. There is a long process that the business/farm has to go through in order to become certified, and it is expensive. This is part of why the certified organic foods cost more. Plus, they produce less viable crops by using organic methods since they can lose more to pests and such.
We also have switched to mostly "natural" beauty products/soaps/lotions. Mainly we are trying to avoid certain chemicals like SLS, parabens, synthetic fragrances, synthetic colors... I have a list that I carry with me so I can reference it when I shop. It makes it easier to find things that fit within the guidelines that I have set for myself.
"Natural" doesn't really mean anything in the grocery stores, as pp have mentioned.
I have lost weight because of the changes I've been making, but I still have a long way to go. I am far from being perfect.