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Started by mango, October 20, 2013, 10:47:47 AM

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redkitty

Quote from: JBM on December 13, 2013, 12:50:04 PM
I try to buy eggs that are cage free and more expensive. I actually have noticed that if I try to eat the cheap eggs, I can tell the difference now. Which was an interesting observation. Same thing with fruit. I love apples and pears and I can now only eat the organic ones - I can taste the chemicals on the regular ones.

i am the exact opposite with fruit. I apparently prefer pesticides and stuff because I do not like the organic ones.  The texture is different in organic ones.  For instance, a red delicious non-organic apple will be crisper and the organic ones mushier (if you like that texture than it is ok, I do not.) 

I used Butoni's pesto sauce the other day with some frozen tortellini.  The sauce is pretty good and I would recommend it.  You can get it where they sell the fresh pasta (at my kroger it happens to be the same aisle as the dry pasta.)

merigayle

I find the LOCAL, organic foods taste better. The ones that are not local, it is hit or miss. We have some great hydroponics farms near by, so we can get a lot of organic and local produce year round.
Fionn mac Cumhail :Meri will rise from the casket and beat you...and then run one last Badwater before burying herself.

mango

Quote from: onawhim on December 13, 2013, 10:06:46 AM
Eggs is a weird food to leave in a lobby no?  I would have thought non perishables would be the way to go :D

so would most people have, but apparently, not the weirdos who live around here.

Quote from: onawhimAnyway I love eggs so glad you enjoyed them.

thanks; I love eggs too.

in fact, they are so incredibly edible that I boiled and ate two more of those Egg-Land's Best Eggs (which, btw, still tasted neither better nor different but the same as ever, i.e., like eggs).





Natasha

Organic apples taste mushy to me too.. We don't have local orchards so that isn't an option. I'm sure freshness makes a difference.

merigayle

I think freshness does make a difference. Though I have been getting honeycrisp apples at the big market and they are definitely not local and are still crisp and yummy.
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ZiggyStardust

I'll just repeat: I've never lived in a place where so much food (soup, frozen dinners, eggs) were left in the lobby!* You sure you're not swiping someone's groceries when they're not looking, mango? ;)

*Admittedly, such an arrangement would've been a boon when I was an impoverished student...

mango

Quote from: ZiggyStardust on December 14, 2013, 06:55:38 PM
You sure you're not swiping someone's groceries when they're not looking, mango?

it's possible, but, I have yet to find a note demanding, "whoever took [stuff I took], please return them" in that same lobby, which btw we also get sometimes.

so, I think I'm good.

as an aside, these occasional freebies don't much help lower my food budget (but oh how I wish that were the case); they do, however, let me try out things I myself would never buy, or as in the case of Trader Joe's boxed soups, things I currently do not have easy access to.

so again, it's all good, for now anyway.






Magic Microbe

Quote from: Natasha on December 14, 2013, 04:09:17 PM
Organic apples taste mushy to me too.. We don't have local orchards so that isn't an option. I'm sure freshness makes a difference.

They gas non organic apples to keep them from degrading...maybe they don't do this with the organic ones...

redkitty

Quote from: Magic Microbe on December 15, 2013, 06:36:59 PM
They gas non organic apples to keep them from degrading...maybe they don't do this with the organic ones...

Didn't know this.

That being said, I have gotten local red delicious organic apples and they were still not as crisp as the non-organic.  I know they were picked that day (I did not pick them myself, though.)  apparently I like pesticides  :D