[EllaEnchanted]

I was just wondering if anyone uses organic products exclusively? I would love to but we just can't afford it for our family. If it was just my husband and I we may be have been able to swing it, but right now with everything so high we just can't afford it.

[Kathleen]

Yes, I agree, the cost is just a bit too much for us. Plus, there isn't s great deal of availability at the stores that i go to. I know there are places I could go to search for the organic items we use, but that cuts into the other thing I'm short on, time.

But, I heard something that made me hope, an advocate for organic products stated the more that they are in demand the easier to find and more cost competitive these items will be. So, I will continue to buy where I can.

[Just_Jessie]

I use a lot of organic products... but fact is, asides from cost, many don't work as well... yet. I try to get Kosher or Halal meats, because they're pretty much organic, and killed humanely due to VERY strict religious guidelines that state there can be no sick animals eaten, and they can't suffer before death or it taints the meat... they're also very strict about what the animals eat since they know they end up eating what the animals they ate eat.

I like using some organic products for dusting and washing my hands here and there- but for laundry, I prefer using certain regular commercial products.

I'll use organic for dishes, but I keep Dawn around for the really tough ones. It seems to me that a lot of the organic products around can be very good, but I end up using more of some of them to get the same effect. I think at some point the prices will drop as they become more common place, but until then, I think a mix is the best way to go.

[EllaEnchanted]

We DO grow our vegetables and fruits organically but we don't grow a lot of them. I would love to grow more but we don't have the ground to do so. I guess I'm going to have to do some square foot gardening.