Safe foods

There are certain foods that I buy organic, and others that I can't because of budgetary restraints (ie. 1 pound of green beans that cost over $5, yikes). But I wanted to pass along this list to those of you who might find it interesting and like "cheat sheets," much like I do for helping you remember stuff.

So, I recently received an email from one of my friends sharing with me the Environmental Working Group (EWG's) Shoppers Guide to foods that have been tested and shown to have higher pesticide levels. So to help consumers lower their risks, they have come up with this shoppers guide to make it easy to select less pesticide-contaminated non-organic foods, and to alert you to the ones that you should buy organic.

I have also heard that fruits and vegetables with thin skins are more susceptible (ie. strawberries, apples) and thicker skinned (avocados, citrus) are not. Check out foodnews.org for more info.

Here is the list:

This comes from this link, http://www.foodnews.org/sneak/EWG-shoppers-guide.pdf