Organic food shopping list - Part of healthy living.
Shopping list
Keep to buying in season, grass fed, organic, non GM, & the least processed to maintain a healthy & balanced diet.
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Ideas:
Instead of buying, why not grow your own?
Start with a simple herb garden or salad garden.
Learn to make your own butter, ghee, stock and kombucha.
Start a Co-op and bulk buy with friends to save £££'s
Make do and mend. Exchange ideas, skills, recipes, and products in your community.
Try and buy products in recycled packaging, reducing the use of tin's and plastics.
Preparation - Make a list of every day items and what you need every 6 months. Buy a little extra each time you go shopping or make an online order.
Be aware of: Misleading food labels. Just because there is a Fair Trade label on the packaging, does not mean what's inside is 100% sustainable of supporting the famer or the family's who work the land.
Buying direct or from caring independent shops and online shops, who know where it comes from.
Storage of food, provided they're in a sealed bag or container.
Canned food, avoid pork and chicken due to high linoleic acid content. Another option is canned beef, which has long shelf-life and doesn't require a freezer. Look for varieties that use salt as the only preservative. Canned wild Alaskan salmon, mackerel and sardines are also good options. They contain healthy protein and fat while being low in toxic water pollutants and heavy metals. Just make sure they're canned in water, not oil, as you can be guaranteed that it'll be the worst oil possible. This is true even if it claims to be "olive oil." Other nutritious foods with long shelf-life include:
Butter, ghee and coconut oil — These healthy fats are very low in linoleic acid (LA) and are ideal for cooking and remain stable even without refrigeration.
Organic beef broth and/or collagen powder — Beef broth is an ideal source of collagen, but organic grass fed collagen powder will stay fresh longer. Collagen is the most common and abundant of your body's proteins, and is required for bone health, tissue integrity and repair.
The most important Vitamin: Vitamin K2, linked to the benefits of Vitamin D
Everyday Items
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DairyList Item 1
- Eggs
- Butter
- Cream
- Ghee
- Cheese
- Yogurt
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Grass fed meatsList Item 2
- Bacon (No nitrates)
- Beef bones
- Chicken carcass
- Ready made bone broth
- Minced beef
- Liver
- Steak
- Pork chops
- Chicken breast
- Whole Chicken
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Fish
- Fresh river trout
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Vegetables & SaladList Item 3
Eat more cruciferous. Eat local and in season for full benefits.
- Cabbage
- Celery
- Mushrooms
- Broccoli
- Carrots
- Spinach
- Cauliflower
- Butternut squash
- Brussels Sprouts
- Kale
- Turnip
- Bok Choy
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FruitList Item 4
- Berries
- Apples
- Plums
- Pears
- Peaches
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British Flour
Artisan and traditional
- Organic Spelt, Emmer & Einkorn Heritage Flour
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Grains
- Rolled Oatmeal
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Herbs
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Turmeric
- Black pepper
- Mint
- Cinnamon
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Minerals
- Sea salt or pink Himalayan salt
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Vinegar
- Apple Cider Vinegar
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Drinks
- Chicory
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Fomented
- Sauerkraut
- kefir
- kombucha
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Other
- Honey In addition to being a natural sweetener, local unadulterated honey also has health benefits. For example, it's an effective cough medicine and can help combat respiratory infections and bacterial infections, including antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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Household products
Buy and use products with no toxins. The harmful chemicals pollute our environment posing a risk to sea life, plants and people’s health
- Soap
- Shampoo
- Washing up
- Clothes washing
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Useful Items
For cooking
- Unbleached Parchment Baking Paper Roll
- Iron Cookware
World Foods
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OilsList Item 1
- Coconut Oil
- Olive Oil
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Vegetables
- Sweet potatoes
- Yam
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Fruits
- Avocado
- Plantain
- Lemon & Limes
- Tomatoes
- Papaya
- Mangos
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Dried Fruit
- Goji Berries
- Medjool Dates
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Milk
- Coconut Milk
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Grains
Buy fermented and sprouted
- Basmati white rice
- Oates
- P.A.N Pre cooked cornmeal (Non GMO)
- Nixtamalized Cornmeal from 100% Natural Corn, 1kg - Harina de Maiz Nixtamalizado NATURELO
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Rice
Rice is a gluten-free staple that can be stored for long periods of time. Interestingly, white rice (my favourite is basmati) is far preferred over brown rice as the antinutrients in brown rice impair its role as a clean source of carbohydrates. Ideally, place the bag in a food-grade bucket together with an oxygen absorber or two, and make sure the lid is well-sealed.
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Flour
- Almond
- Coconut
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Cacao
- 100% Cacao
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Powder
- Organic Spirulina Powder
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Nuts
Macadamia nuts
Supplements
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Vitamin CList Item 1
- Ascorbic Acid
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Vitamin DList Item 2
- Vitamin D3 10,000IU Take with butter (Vitamin K2)
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Cod Liver OilList Item 3
- Blue Ice fermented cod liver oil. Take with butter (Vitamin K2)
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Protein Powders
- Dr Mercola Vegan Protein Powder
- Dr Mercola Whey Protein Powder
Whey protein is rich in leucine, which helps stimulate muscle protein synthesis, thereby promoting healthy muscle. Without a regular source of meat, it can be difficult to achieve enough leucine to maintain body protein from diet alone. Fortunately, whey can be easily stored and can serve as a resource to preserve your muscle mass.
Suppliers
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Farm ShopsList Item 1
Local farm shops and farmers market business listing.
Find a Farm Shop, Local Food Producer & Farmers Market selling Organic and in Season Products.
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Grass Fed Meats & Ready Made broth OnlineList Item 2
Certified organic by the soil association in 1998, Coombe Farm started out as a dairy farm and has a long-standing and trusted reputation for providing exceptional dairy produce.
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Grass Fed Meats OnlineList Item 3
Organic Grass-Fed British Meat
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Blue Ice Fermented Cod Liver OilList Item 4
Premium, natural health products that don't cost the earth.
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Vitamins
High quality vitamins & Minerals.
All supplements are all part of a healthy diet and taken to your health professions recommendations.
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Herbs
Our mission is to help you reconnect with nature so that you can achieve better health and fully enjoy life.
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Faith in nature
In 1974, natural, cruelty-free and vegan weren't so much a bandwagon as a one man band. Or, in our case, a one woman band. Because Faith In Nature isn't just a name - it's Rivka's passion for harnessing the power of Nature, without harming it in the process. Now, it seems, Rivka's passion has caught on. Welcome to our not-so-crazy-after-all world.
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Ostlers Cider Vinegar
Ostlers is a family run business. We pride ourselves on being the original British Cider Vinegar with “The Mother” to supply the health food market.
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Sicilian Extra Virgin Olive Oil
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Good Food Project
To create a food network that delivers good food you can trust, greater food autonomy and self-sufficiency by harnessing our collective buying power, knowledge and energy.
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Organic Foods
Our mission is to make organic whole food more accessible and affordable so all people can build themselves and their families with honest, healthy food. We want to make a natural life accessible so that more people are eating real food and cooking from scratch.
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Coffee
Colombia Coffee Roasters.
https://www.colombiacoffeeroasters.co.uk/
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Natural cleaning products
For body, washing and home.
HANDMADE IN THE UK FROM NATURAL, ORGANIC, VEGAN, SUSTAINABLE, ETHICAL & CRUELTY-FREE INGREDIENTS
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Water Filter
UK's leading water quality specialists
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Flour
Specialists In Organic, French & Cotswold Flour est. 1912
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Netherton Foundry Shropshire
Iron cookware and BBQ's
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Savernake Knives
Makers of exceptional chef's knives, made in Wiltshire.
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Wooden Chopping Boards
Fine Hand Made Wooden Chopping Boards handmade in Warwickshire.
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Ecozoom
Rocket Stoves require 60% less wood fuel and charcoal to cook, reducing demand for wood and charcoal.
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Bush Craft Spain
100% Merino wool blanket
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IVANHOE OF SWEDEN
KNITTED IN GÄLLSTAD SINCE 1946
We are one of very few textile manufacturers in Sweden. We have our own production facility in Gällstad where approximately 90% of all knitting takes place. We also have our design- and sample department, embroidery service and a small sewing department here.
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Walking Boots
Calzados Bestard is a family business in the best sense of the word. From the small workshop that our grandfather founded in 1940, we have grown and evolved to be a well-established and recognized company, both in Spain and internationally.
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Ice Spikes
Micro crampons allow you to conquer the great outdoors, whatever the winter weather throws at you...Walking winter woodland trails? Hiking lowland hills? Trekking the Alps? Exploring Norwegian Glaciers?
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Sheepskin Slippers
Shepherd Of Sweden
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Bower Collective
Earth's best home and personal care products in reusable packaging.
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Real Seeds
The best vegetable seeds for the Kitchen Garden
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Tamar Organics
Seeds & Garden Supplies
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Slow Food UK
Welcome to a Better Way to Eat
In these unprecedented times Slow Food is still supporting Good, Clean & Fair food for all. Whether you are a consumer looking for good food, or a producer looking for support, we are here with you.
