I own up to splitting the list. My original intention was to buy all organic but while I was at the HFS I realized "My Goddess, I'm going to spend $40 buying them an organic meal and they don't care. They eat all kinds of, what I consider, horrible foods for the body and they certainly could care less if the food is organic." So I put their stuff back, bought my family's food, went to Ralphs and purchased the food for them. I in some way feel guilty. If I wouldn't serve the food to my own family, why should I serve it to someone else? Just because they don't realize what they are putting in their bodies, does that make it okay for me to contribute to the toxic load they are carrying? Maybe it's all part of that "do unto others" thing I got going on so I'm interested in what you would do.

I do the same thing with adults, with children I go with the organic.

oops that was me!

ugh...i see i'm goning to have to load up 6.2...looks like an interesting question but 4.7 won't load it...

I'd split it - but for financial reasons. If money was not an issue... I think I'd not split the list. Especially if I were shopping with all 4 kids. :)

Shopping with just Liney and Ellen and money still not an issue, hmmm... I think I'd not split the list - I support organic industry for two reasons - less pesticides in our bodies, but equally as important to me is the pesticide exposure to the field laborers. I like supporting an industry that is gentle to the earth and those who must work in her fields.

Now, Kathy...see that's exactly what I needed. A new perspective because I was just looking at it as a waste of money --- that they wouldn't appreciate that it was all organic and that I spent more money on it to do so would be stupid but, you are absolutely right, there is another side to the equation... the earth, the farmers, the market. You are absoultely right. No wonder the decision has sat uncomfortable in my heart since Saturday.

LOL! I wouldn't split it because it would be just too much like hard work having to try and separate the different foods. I would go nuts. I'd just buy one or the other, but not both.

I eat both, organic and non-organic. I'm at the point now where I believe all food has something positive to contribute, and moreso if I let it contribute. What I mean by this is that if I'm eating something non-organic and I'm thinking, ewww this has lots of crap in it, it's not healthy for me etc, etc then the food will take on what I believe. I end up eating less healthily overall because I get too selective in what I eat when I just eat organic. So I eat both.

I'd make for them what I make for myself. Who the heck wants to spend that extra time shopping???