Comments on: just the 7 worst foods to eat right now

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:23:10 +0000

That’s frightening! Is the dust from pesticides?

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:20:36 +0000

Interesting (and scary) info! Do you know if this relates to Australian produce?

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:14:02 +0000

I pretty much can live of the list except for the canned tomatoes. I do buy organic tinned tomatoes, is that any better? It’s a staple in my pantry. I wonder if there’s a correlation with what a psychic told me a number of years back, that I shouldn’t eat any tinned foods as it was the cause of my eczema and reason why when I wear silver it turns black. I generally like to think it’s cause I’ve worth gold not silver!!

ps – here’s tip for people buying non-organic. Play catch or juggle eg a non-organic orange a number of times and you’ll find a metallic dust forming on your hands. It makes you think.

By: shez

shez — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:12:14 +0000

I find it funny that (supposedly) pesticide-ridden, commercially produced, genetically-bred variety of apples have been dubbed the “conventional ones” by the article your linked to. Does this mean my spotty little organic apples are therefore “unconventional”?

Glad to see that I can still used glassed in tomatoes though – I don’t know what I’d do without a bottle or two in my pantry, especially when tomatoes are well out of season!

By: Christen

Christen — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:25:37 +0000

Sarah I love, love, love your column. I find it uncanny that you’re able to sum up all the random thoughts running through my mind in such an articulate way.

By sheer co-incidence I find myself reading your list while munching on an (unpeeled non-organic) apple. My kids have had an afterschool snack of milkshakes and microwave popcorn (a fun, new discovery). For dinner I was planning to serve the salmon cakes I made yesterday (using you guessed it – nonorganic potatoes and salmon (at least I used canned salmon).

My son however, has turned his nose up at this suggestion and requested his favourite pasta dish instead. I use Karen Martini’s delicious sauce recipe which includes half a can of tinned tomatoes!

I just cleared out my fridge and the veal mince (purchased from the supermarket – is it corn-fed?) has passed it’s use-by date so I fed it my grateful pug dog.

By: Vita

Vita — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:58:02 +0000

I just skimmed the article and it tells me that bottled past a sauce is better for me than tinned tomatos – surely I am better off making my own pasta sauce than getting one from a jar?

By: Fiona

Fiona — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:07:51 +0000

PS I’m following you now and your blog appears on the bloglist on my blog. I’m also about to post about your blog because I love you so much!

By: Fiona

Fiona — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:03:41 +0000

Hey Sarah! Loooooove your column so I’m sooooo glad that you’re blogging now!

This post is scary! All these foods seem OK – well, maybe not the microwave popcorn! (It always tastes funny to me, so I don’t use it anyway.) And maybe not milk produced with artificial hormones – that can’t be good – but I thought they weren’t allowed to do that anyway???

You learn something every day.

By: jo - livingsavvy

jo - livingsavvy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:49:00 +0000

Good gracious, what am I feeding my children? ….we live on apples although they would prefer to live on microwave popcorn…unfortunately or fortunately for them I can’t seem to even cook this without burning it!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:30:08 +0000

You’re kidding me? Not my precious microwave popcorn? Surely I don’t have to go back to making it in a pot? I’m don’t even think I know how.
Thanks for the heads up Sarah. Made my day.