We are also lucky up North that we can get
organic strawberries at Whole Foods: --RRB-
They have
organic strawberries at my local grocery store at this time of year, so they were delicious.
I saw
organic strawberries at the store yesterday and RESISTED big time!
I bought a flat from the farmer's market for my gifts, but they have
organic strawberries at even Costco around here.
Not exact matches
I found the SNICKERS ® Crispers
at Walmart along with the
organic strawberries!
Just wanted to let you know that these super tasty easy
strawberry gluten free chocolate lava cakes for two are sponsored by my friends
at XOBY
Organics!
I picked up these tasty (
organic)
strawberries at my local farmers market and after enjoying so many for breakfast decided I'd use up the remaining batch for this recipe.
We went
strawberry picking
at the nearby
organic farm and ended up gathering way more of the sun - ripened beauties than we initially planned.
If you think going
organic is out of your price range, Pete has the answer — take his Australian
Organic Awareness Month challenge plus find out why carrots, celery, lettuce and
strawberries should be
at the top of...
Half and top your
strawberries, and mix them in a bowl with your
organic cane sugar and allow to macerate for
at least 20 minutes until a syrup forms.
Distinctively sweet, fresh - picked,
organic strawberries are one of the spring season's greatest highlights
at the Saturday morning, Old Town Temecula California - Certified Farmers Market.
If you think going
organic is out of your price range, Pete has the answer — take his Australian
Organic Awareness Month challenge plus find out why carrots, celery, lettuce and
strawberries should be
at the top of your
organic shopping list.
I don't know how the farmers from JR
Organics did it but they had three different types of
strawberries at their stand last weekend — Gaviota, Patricia, and Albion.
Notes: This was originally going to be a raspberry pistachio crumb cake, but when I got 6 pounds of
organic strawberries for $ 4
at the farmers market the other day, I decided I had to go the
strawberry route.
Try to find
organic berries picked during the high season, preferable from a country you know «rock» during the
strawberry season — here I am not an expert, but the scandinavian countries are pretty awesome
at the berry thing.
If you can't source all your fresh fruit and vegetables organically
at least chose certified
organic fruit and vegetables that you eat the skin of such as
strawberries, apples and potatoes, that way you avoid harmful chemical residues.
One of my favorite ways to eat
strawberries is to buy them whole and frozen (always
organic since they're
at the top of the Dirty Dozen list) and snack on them right out of the freezer, or after about 5 minutes of thawing.
A couple of weeks ago, I made my first batch of
strawberry jam (from the
organic strawberries we'd picked
at a local farm) and tried my hand
at canning for the first time as well.
At the very least, you're going to want to buy
organic versions of the most pesticide - ridden fruits and vegetables: apples,
strawberries, grapes, celery, peaches, spinach, bell peppers, nectarines, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, snap peas, potatoes, and kale.
So when my friend Melissa said she and her family were planning on going to Berry Patch Farms to pick
organic strawberries this weekend and wanted to know if anyone wanted to join them, I was chomping
at the bit.
And here I was,
at the hungriest moment of my life, limiting foods I think of as healthy (
organic farmers» market
strawberries, for example).
Fresh cut up fruit -LCB-
strawberries, blueberries, bananas, mango -RCB-, homemade banana + egg pancakes, scrambled eggs, hard boiled egg, banana bread, oatmeal, Kite Hill almond milk yogurt -LCB- found
at Whole Foods -RCB-,
organic silver dollar pancakes, pumpkin muffins -LCB- both found
at Trader Joe's -RCB-.
I do notice that it is hard to find
organic strawberries and grapes
at Whole Foods.
Anonymous testers, working
at times under red light so the fruit color would not bias them, found one variety of
organic strawberries was sweeter, had better flavor, and once a white light was turned on, appearance.
Frozen pineapple, tropical fruit (mango / papaya, pineapple /
strawberries),
organic berries (all kinds / mixes), wild blueberries, frozen cherries, and frozen mango are my favorite frozen fruits to buy
at Costco.