The Organic Thing
Well, the first thing I discovered is that stopping to look at labels is not practical when you have 45 minutes before you have to pick up your daughter from daycare. And for some reason, *everybody* does their shopping on a late Tuesday morning. Who knew?
Having said that, the range of obviously organic products at our local supermarket was pretty limited. There were a couple of shelves of vegetables, but I just couldn’t bring myself to spend four times the amount of money on a bag of carrots. I know organic is good, I know it’s only produced by smaller businesses and they should be supported… but I just couldn’t do it.
I found a range of organic tinned vegetables under the supermarket’s own brand, but that ran into my more ingrained vow not to buy anything from that brand if I can help it, as I believe firmly that the development of said brand is designed to reduce choice to the consumer (ie they’re taking over and before long there will only be their brand of bread or vegies or milk etc…). And the only tinned vegies I buy regularly are beans and chickpeas, which I was already buying organic from a different brand.
So I bought some organic spaghetti. And that’s it. I was pleased to see the price comparable to ordinary spaghetti.
None of these things constitute “snacks” as per the original question, but then I’m not a snack food kind of mum. I’ve been working to reduce the amount of processed food we eat full stop.
And the organic vegie debate will soon be moot, as the man of the house has built us a vegie garden of our own! Woohoo!
I think I’m going to have to try a health food shop next time, rather than just try the supermarket. Need to check out gluten free options too, for the youngest Hordeling.
So this isn’t a failure - just one step along the way. 
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