Organic Eating - How To Get Started

To go organic or to not go organic? That seems to be on the minds of everyone these days, especially since buying the organic versions of our favorite foods means paying quite a bit more at the till.

How do you make the best choice for you and your family without breaking the bank? The key is going organic strategically, and according to the nutrition experts at The New York Times, there are five foods you should splurge on:

• Milk, because of all the chemicals, pesticides and hormones that non-organic versions can contain;
• Potatoes, because this staple of the American diet is one of the most pesticide-contaminated vegetables out there;
• Peanut butter, because it's something our kids eat pretty much every day;
• Ketchup, because studies show that organic ketchup has twice the antioxidants that conventional ketchup does; and
• Apples, because they are one of the most commonly-eaten fruits out there, behind bananas and oranges -- but unlike them, when you eat an apple, you actually eat the skin (and all the pesticides that go with it).

Surely you can afford to go organic on these five items -- it's so simple and so effective. And, after all, if hospitals are going organic, maybe it's a sign that we should too?