Door-to-Door Organics is a service that delivers weekly (or bi-weekly) boxes of organic produce to your door (the name says it all right?). I wrote about Door to Door recently (ordering a box myself) - the experience was easy and the food was great!
The contest is as follows: answer the question at the end of this post in the comments section below. The contest closes in exactly one week, Monday April 6th, at 10:15 MST. Although Door to Door delivers to over 11 areas nationwide (Colorado, Connecticut, the DC area, Delaware, the Kansas City area, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia), this contest is only for deliveries in Colorado and the Kansas City areas. If you live in one of those areas, great! If you don’t, feel free to gift the box to a friend or family member who does. The winner will be drawn randomly from those who answer the question below and contacted via email (which will be asked for, but not displayed in your comment) and awarded one Bitty Box.
For those of you who “never win anything”, order a box for yourself and use the Door to Door Organics discount code “spinach” to receive $5 off (boxes start around ~$20).
Drumroll please…the question is: If you already buy primarily organic food, why? If you do not buy mostly organic food, why not?
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Whenever I go to the store, I always try to get organic produce and groceries. Basically I cannot understand why I should buy food that contains things that I cannot pronounce.
I buy organic often, but not always. For example, Girl Scout cookies are not organic. But I think they really should be. I’ll write them about that.
Ideally I’d like to buy both organic AND local during the growing season. I don’t worry too much if a reputable local farmer hasn’t gone through the trouble to get national organic certification, though, because it can be very expensive for small operators. Door to Door is a great company!
I try to buy organic on many of the “dirty dozen” produce items (although I can’t quite stomach the price of organic red bell peppers.)
I would like to start buying more organic food but I’m cheap and still think I’m invincible (my invincibility has failed me many times but I’m a slow learner!)
I try to buy more local than organic. Price is also a factor against buying organic. But sometimes taste overrules price (and I do think that a lot of the times, organic tastes better). I guess it just depends on my mood! And when possible I try to grow my own organic food. WAY more satisfying than buying!
I prefer to buy organic food- however occasionally, due to price, or if I’m buying from the local farmers market, I will buy non organic produce.
I do not buy mostly organic food, beacuse:
a) I actually do not know a whole lot about this whole issue, and have not taken the time to research it in depth
b) I haven’t taken the time to research in depth the food choices available near the places I live and work
As part of (a), I don’t really know quite what the term “organic” means as applied to food (I know that in chemistry, it describes any compound that contains carbon). I don’t know what I can infer about a particular food if I see it labeled as organic in a store.
With all else equal, I was of course always prefer the fresher out of a choice of two foods, or the one with less of any synthetic chemical shown to be potentially harmful. But, in most situations, I don’t know how to easily make this choice.
I buy organic when I can afford to buy organic. Sometimes the price differences aren’t that big, but at times they are, so I would say that I buy organic about half of the time. I’d say that cost is a huge factor for me, as a struggling student, but I also would rather eat less and eat better than eat really cheap and have too much of things that aren’t good for me.