Have you fallen for the hype of buying organic? The only organic produce I buy is usually broccoli and sometimes spinach which I like to steam. Sainsburys and asda sell organic broccoli for around £1/£1.20 per head.

It isn't cheap, but it makes me feel good that I'm putting vegetables into my body that haven't been sprayed with pesticides and other such nasties. Maybe I've fallen for the hype, I don't know.

What are your thoughts on organic vs non organic produce?

They have been sprayed with pesticides.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

With meat, it being free-range and ethically treated is more important to me than the next step up of being organic. I would never buy EU bacon, for example. I always make sure it's British.

The only way that you'd be guaranteed that what you were eating hadn't been sprayed with anything would be to grow it yourself. Washing vegetables will probably be okay.

There is a lot of conflicted information out there regarding organic produce, so I never know who to believe. Most foods, even nuts, seem to organic these days.

Not meat, it's too expensive and I eat too much to justify the cost, but most of my veg comes from my dad's allotment and is all organic.

I don't bother buying organic food from the shops because I can't tell the difference in taste and it costs a lot more. It is impossible to get a list of approved synthetic pesticides and fertilizers for organic food production, and I have tried, believe me.

If you go to gov.uk and the Soil Association you just get generalisations saying how responsible they are and how they strictly adhere to the standards, but try asking the specific question 'synthetic pesticides and fertilizers that are allowed to be used in uk organic food production', and you run into a dead end or get overwhelmed by science.

For example see: http://www.soilassociation.org/organicstandards and https://www.gov.uk/converting-to-organic-farming and https://www.gov.uk/chemicals-in-food-safety-controls

I know that the use of synthetic herbicides is completely banned and antibiotics too for organic meat.

However I buy pear and apple & pear juice online and directly from small UK organic producers. I always phone the producers to ascertain whether the fruit is truly organic, and if they assure me that they don't use any synthetic pesticides or fertilizers then I will buy the organic juice and pay the premium. I've only found 1 producer in 3 years who is truly organic.

I always buy free-range meat and eggs, but I don't usually bother with organic. I do buy some organic stuff (like Sainsbury's organic garlic and Waitrose's organic tinned tomatoes), but that's because I like the taste of it, not because it's organic.

No I've never bought organic as far as I know.

I buy organic whenever I can.
Though I have been told when it comes to vegetables is about how close they were grown, and not whether they are organic or not. Like organic carrots grown in Spain will not be as beneficial as 'standard' carrots grown in England.
I never know what to bloody believe !

I get some Organic bread once from Sainsburys because it was on offer, but I don't normally bother with Organic. Normally too expensive and taste no different.

When people say beneficial, I assume they are talking about the impact on the environment. It will create much less of an environmental impact to buy carrots grown locally, rather than ones grown hundreds/thousands of miles away.

If you can buy carrots grown locally. There's only one greengrocer that sells local produce within a 2 mile radius of me, whereas the same radius is awash with supermarkets selling anything but local produce. When I was a kid the opposite was true. No organic produce in those days. No-one even thought about it.

Where we lived we were surrounded by market gardens growing veg for sale locally and tomatoes in long rows of wooden framed glasshouses. I used to climb over the back fence and steal lettuces and spring onions. Now they are all housing estates.

Deleted. I'll save that for another day.

I'm not rich enough to buy everything, so the main items that I go for are Potatoes, Lettuce,apples and chicken...

I fed my son organic til he was about 3 and food issues kicked in.
Made me feel good at the time.
Also organic avocados for some reason are nicer then not organic ones

I don't make a point of buying organic. I do tend to buy both locally and seasonal. Better quality than supermarkets, fresher and loads cheaper when you buy what's in season.

No, I don't buy it. It's mainly an economic issue for me, I have a limited budget for food so I get what we can afford as we have to have enough to feed four people. If I lived alone on the same budget, I might pay more for certain things.