Frozen v. Fresh food
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joyofliving
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Thanks MLBW you have provided me with a wealth of info about buying organic straight from the local farmers. I will be going to the Organic Vegetable Market at Star Ferry Pier tomorrow and also ordering from the Organic Garden Veggie Van
I went to the Organic veggie market at Star Ferry yesterday. It was so refreshing to actually smell REAL veggies, (especially ginger, mint and strawberries
)). I personally feel that even the Organic veggies in supermarkets don't smell what real veggies do. Please don't misread me here, I buy veggies from supermarkets all the time, and consider them healthy
We have a big veggie garden back home, and since I was a kid I used to pick my own veggies and grow some too in a little patch my grandpa used to alot us.
The prices however were little bit high, but I think its fair considering the hard work the farmer puts in to grow and transport his produce. Also there were only 4-5 stalls only, more than enough stuff for me actually. So incase you go there sometime please don't expect anything fancy or you'll be disappointed. I was very happy
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rani
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We tried to organize a Strawberry picking trip last Easter. Unfortunately it got canceled because of the weather. Details here:
http://www.geobaby.com/forum/thread123296-2.html
Here's the website
http://www.yl.com.hk/taitong/
http://www.geobaby.com/forum/thread123296-2.html
Here's the website
http://www.yl.com.hk/taitong/
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MLBW
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Looked that over...it's not the same place that I was referring to but probably is quite close by. Anyway....lots of fun...of course I'm familiar with the ones by our house but I think there are quite a few places like that out here.
Given the age of most of the women here (late twenties to fourties???) - just think about what you ate as a child. Chances are that the pesticides used wereWORSE than what is used today,simply because not all the dangers were as well understood.
I, too, find the whole organic/not, frozen/fresh a little pedantic. We buy organic when we can, fresh when it's good, frozen when it's not. We eat a balanced meal, and buy brands that we trust.
It's kind of irrelevent where meat/fish comes from - unless it's CHinese (don;t trust it at all) or organic. Chicken from Brazil/USA/Australia/'free range' is still from chickens whose food is pumped full of antibiotics. Fish free caught from Vietna, is only going to have marginally less mercury than that caught in Scotland.
The important thing is to be aware of the risks and to minimise them as much as you can.
If we shopped only organic, we'd go broke.
You can be healthy without having to go 100% organic.
I, too, find the whole organic/not, frozen/fresh a little pedantic. We buy organic when we can, fresh when it's good, frozen when it's not. We eat a balanced meal, and buy brands that we trust.
It's kind of irrelevent where meat/fish comes from - unless it's CHinese (don;t trust it at all) or organic. Chicken from Brazil/USA/Australia/'free range' is still from chickens whose food is pumped full of antibiotics. Fish free caught from Vietna, is only going to have marginally less mercury than that caught in Scotland.
The important thing is to be aware of the risks and to minimise them as much as you can.
If we shopped only organic, we'd go broke.
You can be healthy without having to go 100% organic.
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MLBW
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Happy V, it's true that going 100% organic is way too expensive at this point but I'm glad you recognize the value in being careful about what you buy. I guess I'm the anomaly here as the entire time I was growing up I only ate home-grown organic produce and wild game on a regular basis (except for the 1-2 times a year I had soda at a birthday party--that sort of thing)--and I can definitely tell a change in the quality of my health since I haven't had access to that type of food for the past 8-10 years. Plus, well-grown veggies just taste better! I was just cutting up a carrot from Australia and it was the most anemic, yellow (bright orange on the outside of course), tasteless piece of veggie I've tasted in awhile. I think I'm going to start a roof garden and grow carrots on my roof! :0)
I think most of the australians agreed on what you said.
by the way, you can find australian grown carrot at the very reasonable price 10/kg at welcome.
before the age of 1, i never buy any fresh veggie which produce fr hk and china. i rather trust heinz bottled food fr aust.
by the way, you can find australian grown carrot at the very reasonable price 10/kg at welcome.
before the age of 1, i never buy any fresh veggie which produce fr hk and china. i rather trust heinz bottled food fr aust.
MLBW, actually I don't trust many so called 'organic' producers, wherever they may be. If I lived close by to one as you did/do and I could see wth my own eyes that things were grown organically, picked at the peak etc I'd be more inclined to believe the hype. As it is even in Australia there have been lots of scandals about so called organic fruit and veg suppliers selling regular produce but heaping a bit of soil on everything to make it look organic!
This notwithstanding, I still don't see a big difference between the mainland and HK. If you compare HK to a place like Australia, a country without pollution, with clean water etc even regularly produced vegies in Oz would be healthier than 'organic' produce from HK. HK producers might not be as 'ethically challenged' as some Mainland producers but you can't get away from the fact that the environment here is one of the unhealthiest and it's in these conditions that fruit and veg are grown.
That said, I do miss good carrots so maybe I'll try out your contact
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MLBW
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Mocha, I know about the Wellcome carrots--are you talking about organic carrots from Wellcome? The cheaper carrots from Australia--I gave those a go--not impressed--no flavor--really. That's also the big difference between most organically grown stuff and the other "mass produced" veggies out there--the flavor is A LOT different. For one thing, most veggies that aren't organically grown have a sort of bitter or acrid taste to them--from the residue of pesticide and fertilizer on them. Then, the flavor is extremely washed out. It's sort of like having a veggie that looks like a carrot from the outside but only retains about 25% of the taste of a carrot on the inside. Looks can be deceiving. As far as the way most agriculture is done today--it's not done for nutrition's sake or for flavor's sake--many producers (big industrial farms) are simply in it for the profit so the quality suffers. If you've ever had a delicious home-grown carrot, you know what I'm talking about here. Sadly, most people haven't. I seriously have to set up some planter boxes on the roof of my house and grow some carrots!