WIC and Organic Foods - Page 2

[BrooklynDoula]

I can get organic carrots and organic beans if I go to a store that carries them.

[srain]

I try to compromise by getting almost-organic food. I can find cage-free, antibiotic-free, hormone-free eggs and milk that are not organic. Can't get peanut butter without hydrogenated oils, so I took beans instead. [I'm still trying to figure out what to di woth all this juice- we'll have a lifetime supply! I often get tomato juice which I'll use in soup.]

[lilyka]

What is it with all the freaking juice. Forst they give you more than any sane person can drink but then yell at you for drinking more than a couple of ounces a day. I gave a lot of stuff away.

[sugarmoon]

Wow - I didn't even mean to go to this board, but this thread is really interesting. In Vermont, where I am, my WIC foods are delivered to my house once a week, so I have no choice in which brands I get. In someways, I guess this is nice. It is definitely a big convienice! And no dealing with rude check-out clerks, so no stigma (esp. since when I drive down my road on WIC day, every other house seems to have a cooler out! LOL). However, I would like to be able to choose brands -- even if I couldn't get org. milk, I could choose the local dairy that is bgh-free. I have a friend in the next town over, and she gets that brand b/c she has a diff't supplier than I do. Weird. I should ask her to trade w/ me. I don't think she cares whats in her food. .....