tmm99
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After reading some things and watching documentaries like Food Inc and Future of Food, I have started getting more and more naturally grown/raised foods.
I joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) to buy organic seasonal vegetables/fruit ($22/wk), get organic eggs from free range pasture fed chickens (corn-free soy-free feed in addition to pasture) from a local coop ($6/dozen). I have also been buying organic grass fed beef and pasture fed (with organic feed) pork which are both quite expensive. (I am ordering 1/2 pig in October to cut cost. I thought of getting a 1/4 cow but I wouldn't know what to do with all the roasts that come with the share- I only like steaks and grounds but more steaks) I get pasture-fed organic chickens (about $18 for a 4lb bird - this one does use soy feed. The price of organic pasture chickens with no soy/corn feed is phenomenal). When I guy fish, I buy wild fish.
I think the good pork tastes vastly different from the regular kind. (I never liked pork as an adult since the pork smelled kind of nasty to me, but the good pork tastes just like the pork I ate as a child and I really like it.) Pork/chicken/beef - all of them are drier than the regular kind but I think they all have more flavor.
Has anybody been converting over to more natural food? How are you doing? What's your expense looking like? I had to modify my buget to do this (cutting the entertainment/hobbie budget and other non-food budgets and eating out less). I am eating more cheaper cuts of meat and probably less amount than before. I guess I could eat more eggs and ground beef (both of which are relatively inexpensive compared to the rest of the stuff.) I wish I had a big backyard. I would raise chickens myself...(maybe.)
I joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) to buy organic seasonal vegetables/fruit ($22/wk), get organic eggs from free range pasture fed chickens (corn-free soy-free feed in addition to pasture) from a local coop ($6/dozen). I have also been buying organic grass fed beef and pasture fed (with organic feed) pork which are both quite expensive. (I am ordering 1/2 pig in October to cut cost. I thought of getting a 1/4 cow but I wouldn't know what to do with all the roasts that come with the share- I only like steaks and grounds but more steaks) I get pasture-fed organic chickens (about $18 for a 4lb bird - this one does use soy feed. The price of organic pasture chickens with no soy/corn feed is phenomenal). When I guy fish, I buy wild fish.
I think the good pork tastes vastly different from the regular kind. (I never liked pork as an adult since the pork smelled kind of nasty to me, but the good pork tastes just like the pork I ate as a child and I really like it.) Pork/chicken/beef - all of them are drier than the regular kind but I think they all have more flavor.
Has anybody been converting over to more natural food? How are you doing? What's your expense looking like? I had to modify my buget to do this (cutting the entertainment/hobbie budget and other non-food budgets and eating out less). I am eating more cheaper cuts of meat and probably less amount than before. I guess I could eat more eggs and ground beef (both of which are relatively inexpensive compared to the rest of the stuff.) I wish I had a big backyard. I would raise chickens myself...(maybe.)