Guest Post: How to Tell if Your Organic Food is Really Organic

When it comes to implementing a healthier diet, there are few things that will meet your needs better than organic foods.  Produce is grown without the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers (which not only get stored in your system, but also seep into the ground to pollute the ecosystem) and animals are raised free [...]

Guest Post: Foods you must buy Organic (and some that you don’t)

Sometimes, people like me just can’t afford to buy everything organic.  Sometimes, we’re surrounded by people who do buy everything organic and can’t help but say so when they see us glancing at how much money is left in our wallets before picking up another piece of organic fruit.  For those of us struggling to [...]

Lets Celebrate Organic Food for Organic Fortnight!

As we move into the second week of Organic Fortnight, we thought it would be a great time to highlight some of our organic food favourites.  It would be great to hear from you as to what are your favourites. Goodness Organic Bread with Cheese – available from Goodness Direct for £1.84. Organic Smoked Salmon [...]

Organic Progress

In recent years the consumption of organic produce has increased exponentially. Many people choose organic produce over the non-organic option to eat more healthy natural foods and to also help protect the environment by reducing the use of agricultural chemicals by farmers. While it is generally considered that organic produce will help your family to [...]

Essential Organic Italian Tomato Range

Organic, ethical food co-operative Essential has a comprehensive range of organic Italian tomato products for all your cooking needs including: Organic Whole Tinned Tomatoes (99p for 400g) Organic Chopped Italian Tomatoes (99p for 400g) Organic Whole Cherry Italian Peeled Tomatoes (£1.05 for 430g) Organic Passata (£1.34 for 700g) Organic Double Concentrated 28 Brix Tomato Puree [...]

Reduce your Food Footprint & Be Inspired at Ethically Essential

REDUCE YOUR FOOD FOOTPRINT AND BE INSPIRED AT WWW.ETHICALLYESSENTIAL.COOP   Reducing your ‘food footprint’ is easy and inspiring at www.ethicallyessential.coop.  This site is a one stop shop of over 600 different products that are organic, vegetarian or vegan and fairly traded.  Buying these carefully selected products, will help you reduce your ‘food footprint’ and increase [...]

Organic Breakfast Hamper

Brenda writes… This week is Farmhouse Breakfast Week, so I thought I would post about differing Organic breakfast delights that can be found this week to help celebrate. Sharpham Park have recently won an award for the South West Breakfast Champions 2009, for their Organic Spelt – finest Granola.  They have a fantastic array of breakfast goodies, [...]

Competition: Win a chocolate goodie pack worth £20 from Essential Trading Co-operative

Brenda writes… Mmm, my mouth is watering at the thought of next week…From October 13th – 19th is National chocolate Week.  So all you chocoholics, enjoy!  To celebrate this great week, Essential Trading Co-operative have kindly donated a chocolate goodie pack for the readers of The Green Familia.  See below for details of this great [...]

Competition! Win an Organico Box of Goodies value approx £50

Brenda writes… Todays competition prize has been kindly donated by Organico Real Foods.  To find out more about this fabulous Organic Food Company, read on… Organico´s range of jarred and dried food from the Mediterranean is authentic “local” food at it´s best.  Company founder Charles Redfern, who grew up eating a wide range of delicious [...]

Abel & Cole – 20% Off for one week only

Brenda writes… Want to try more organic food, but sometimes you feel the price is just too high?  Then check out this fab offer from Abel & Cole. Abel & Cole are 20 years old – can you believe it?  They are offering all customers a fantastic 20% off all products except Fruit & Veg.  [...]

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