Hi fellow seniors, do certain food smells make you feel hungry?

The food industry in the US uses so many chemicals in the ground, it is a wonder we are not all glowing. I would love to buy only organic food items but the cost is way too much. We just do our best by cooking fresh things and keeping our fingers crossed that we are not ruining our bodies by trying to feed it.

Try to eat enough fiber and such to cleanse out our systems. In Hungary we almost always by fresh things from the farmers that come into town and sell out of small stalls at the farmers markets. You can tell it's fresh as you can only buy for a few days ahead otherwise it rots, not picked early and then put under lights to turn the proper shade.

My MIL used to grow everything in her own garden, she only bought bread, sugar and oil from the stores. She had a large cellar where she stored her own onions, potatoes, apples for the winter. She canned her own fruits and made her own jellies.

They even made their own wines and brandy. For many years they had their own chickens, pigs and made sausages every year, had to pay a neighbor to do in the pig, they couldn't do it themselves got too attached to it.. It was a full time job after she retired. You could taste the foods they way nature intended them to be.

The best bowl of simple tomato soup I have ever had came straight out of my MIL garden. Our taste buds are shot, most of us would not know the difference between organic and items mechemically laced because the process of packaging, handling etc. even makes the store bought organic compromised. Most of us have never tasted foods the way nature intended them to taste.

The entire food industry should be held accountable for the crimes they are doing to unsuspecting people. Really, you can only trust the food if you grow it yourself.

Lily, I agree with you that the price of organic food can be too high, and we can't always be sure that organic food is worth the price. I think the idea of organic is evolving; we've learned that the "organic" label can mean many different things that may or may not be worth the extra cost. I don't think all the ideas and practices behind "organic" will die out, but I think we are going through a period when people are less tolerant of higher prices and that instead of using organic as an all purpose label we will see certain practices emphasized in marketing.

I prefer to buy some things that are organic and others that are not. Pesticide residue on fruits and vegetables is one of my concerns. Washing produce doesn't get rid of all the pesticide residue.

So, I prefer organic apples, strawberries, celery, and spinach. Peas, and sweet potatoes tend to hold less pesticides, so I buy non-organic. I'm more interested in supporting 'sustainable' practices than buying strictly 'organic' produce.

Here are some of the things I look for: I look to buy things grown locally, which means I buy things 'in season'. So, for example, citrus and strawberries are in season here, and the price of even "organic" is much lower. This also means that when I'm buying fresh the produce really does taste fresh.

I'm know that there are 3 farms that grow organic heirloom tomato in my area, and this is 'the season' for them here; so I'm getting my fill of them now-they do taste different, I think better, than the tomatoes sold in supermarkets. I look for produce grown by people who are careful with applying pesticides and fertilizers. Lessening the use of these things can be cost effective, and it is better for our soil and water supplies.

I wouldn't want to buy things grown near fresh manure; but the slow release of nutrients and low probability of infection from using composted manure from only certain animals does work well with less harm to the environment. I'll stop my list here. I am not a strictly organic shopper.

But I do pay attention to where my food comes from, how it is grown, and I try to support sustainable practices whenever I can. I will sometimes pay a bit more for organic, but not always. When I look at the cost, I often find that the difference is less than a small package of cookies or something else I can do without.

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