Organic Shopping

When you're going grocery shopping the most important thing is being able to make one, at most two stops to get all of your grocery needs for the week. Here we will post the best places that and the items they carry for everything you'll need to make wide variety of meals. Of course, you also want to buy organic at the cheapest possible prices, and we can help you out with that.

If you're on a very strict budget and find many organic items too expensive, this website tells you what you should definitely buy organic, and the rest of your items are fine to get non-organic:
To Buy, or not to buy, organic?
The Clean 15: foods you don't need to buy organic
The Dirty Dozen: foods to buy organic

These are the majority of products we purchase when we go shopping, it varies every week on what we get, but this is where we find them:
(Always look for the word organic and a USDA approved label)

Costco:

Silk Vanilla Soy Milk
Regular Milk
Kirkland Cheedar Cheese
Norco Eggs
ORGANIC chicken (whole)
ORGANIC chicken breasts
ORGANIC ground beef
ORGANIC ground turkey
ORGANIC whole turkey (thanksgiving time only)
Carrots (whole carrots .... not baby carrots)
Strawberries (March/April) this time of year only, get them now!)
Blueberries (seasonal- January/February)
Diced Tomatoes
Tomato Paste
Garlic
Krikland Dried Oregano
Natures Path Flax plus, fine milled flaxseed
Kirkland no-salt seasoning - great on so many things
Spinach
Frozen Edamame
Bybee Frozen mixed vegetables  (corn, green beans, carrots, edamame, green peas)
Alpine Valley whole wheat bread - Omega 3 is our favorite, our dad likes the honey wheat (you can freeze the bread if its too much for one week, we usually freeze 2-3 loafs at a time, transfer to the fridge the day before you will use it)
WILD fish *
 (we get our fish from costco, 1. because you can get fresh or frozen, and 2. because its a great price. When picking fish, make sure you look for the word WILD, not farmed. You wont find fish organic because its hard to regulate and control. When a fish is farmed, its more likely to be genetically modified and have diseases. They also often use chemicals and hormones to make them grow faster.)
Pineapples (these arent organic, but .... (look up))
Mangos - least susceptible to containing a lot of pesticides
Pineapple - also least susceptible to pests (ergo-less pesticides used)
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Chicken Broth
Fage Greek Yogurt - not organic, but ..... they dont treat their cows with RGBH (an artificial hormone)
Unsalted Butter
Quinoa
Agave Nectar
Honey
Harvest Melody Wild Rice
Kashi Autumn Harvest Shredded Wheat Cereal (only at san diego- la jolla location, I like these better than mini-wheats, not to mention, organic!)
Peruvian Organic whole coffee beans (San Diego - la jolla costco, email them to get at other places! So goood)

Sprouts, Whole Foods, Trader Joes ( we shop at Whole foods & occasionally go to Trader Joes)

Tomatoes
Kale
Red Onions
Butternut Squash
Sweet Potatoes
Red Potatoes
Eggplant
Jalapenos (not always organic)
Cucumber
Arugala
Cilantro
Mushrooms
Celery
Spaghetti Squash
Apples
Parsley
Lemons
Bananas
Oranges
Bobs Red Mill Whole wheat Bread Flour**
Bobs Red Mill Whole Wheat unbleached White Flour**
Bobs Red Mill Pastry Flour**
White Sugar
Dark Brown Sugar
Jelly
Applesauce
Organic Pastures  Raw whole Milk   (there is a skim option - Jaclyn likes it, bergen hates it)
Organic Non-fat plain yogurt
Organic Greek yogurt
Ezekiel 4: 9 Original whole grain cereal
Rolled Oats
Sunharvest Preium Coconut Milk
Coconut Flakes
Dried Garbanzo Beans
Dried Black Beans