Which supermarkets best for organic?

[EP]

Finland uses only about 10% of the EU chemical spray allowance. I guess most of the bugs die by themselves here:)

Yes, bugs die, just like they die in every place in this hemisphere. Winter works wonders. Any place warmer needs more pesticides, frost is all that is needed here.

Sorry if it's an old topic, - I've been off the forum for quite a while.

It does not mattter. My little K-market in Espoo just started to sell luomu (organic) meat last week.

[Rosamunda]

OTOH I was in Prisma (Olari) yesterday and I got the impression they had cut back on some of the organic stuff. It could be that the supermarkets are anticipating a lower demand for organic produce because consumers will reduce their food budgets. Not sure. Hope not. Food prices are getting ridiculous, there was an article in HS yesterday (or was it Friday) and Finland's food prices have increased more than any other country's in Europe over the last few months. Apparently we are all being ripped off by the retailers. Still.

[Pursuivant]

The problem also is more that more of the farmers have given up as the production would require such volume its not feasible.

[Rosamunda]

Yes, probably. I also read a while back that organic milk is just packaged as normal milk when it can't be sold. I guess the same is true with eggs.

[Thelonious]

http://www.hakaniemenkauppahalli.fi/kau ... umarja.htm

To complete the list, this vendor is in the Hakaniemen halli.

In my opinion, in Helsinki one has to visit several supermarkets and shops to be able to buy a nice diversity of organic foods.

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

That might be because food in Finland in general is probably already more natural and "pure" than in the above mentioned countries...

Yes, so much so that the products here are seperated into Organic and non-organic...as all other countries. A typical myth, the meat quality here is terrible....love the white water that comes out of meat...hmmmmmm - wonder what that is?

Interesting

http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2009/01/pura ... 61575.html

Remember that 'luomu' food isn't as organic as you think and just uses less crap that normal produce...To really eat organic you have to do what Penelope said, grow, swap, buy from hunters or hunt yourself etc etc or contact local farmers etc....

By the way there is mail order organic here and it's growing. I am thinking about doing it and it's not much more expensive.

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

Food prices are getting ridiculous, there was an article in HS yesterday (or was it Friday) and Finland's food prices have increased more than any other country's in Europe over the last few months. Apparently we are all being ripped off by the retailers. Still.

No, no, no...that is not true....Helsingin Sanomat said so. They did research and found that food was the same price as other EU countries.

Can't find it....Might have been YLE, but that's what their 'research' found. Of course, there seemed no indication of cost of food in relation to wages, taxation etc etc...

[Meresjeva]

>>>>love the white water that comes out of meat...hmmmmmm - wonder what that is?

meat hasn't been hanged properly... for long enough

Meat people told me smaller farms' beef here is hanged for about 4 weeks (which is good news) but in vacuum (which is rather strange, where did the exessive liquid goes then?). The bone-in rules are unclear,too: they say bones are a big no-no since the foot-and-mouth times, all cuts are sold boneless. This might explain that butcher at the market in Tampere selling marrow bones only together with the loin, as a package

But Kallion Liha in Helsinki sold me bones OK last year and Turku market sells bone-in cuts all right...

Still, I miss a metsästäjäkortti...

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

Er....I think it's some crap that they inject into the meat. It has been mentioned before...

[ksh]

To the original poster,

Many K markets/citymarkets carry comparatively inexpensive organic foods under their own "Pirkka" label. I buy the organic porridge, flour, and crushed tomatoes for example.

[sazzie]

Update March 2009: the brand new prisma at itakeskus has the best range of Luomu I have seen in one place.
Unfortunately, unlike K market/heino (with the exception of fresh produce and meat) they don't identify products with a green shelf label so you really have to stare at the shelves before you find the organic stuff mixed in with everything else!

I notice a post mentioned mail order organic ----do you have contact information for this? If theres a similar system to the UK where you can have seasonal veggies delivered in a box, that would be great.

[Rosamunda]

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[Rip]

We've resorted to eating more wild salmon

Wild salmon from where - hopefully not from Baltic sea, both toxic and rare...

[Tessi]

I feel a bit silly since I basically registered to the site for this and it will not actually be of much use to most of you, but if anyone lives near the city of Turku, the university there has an 'organic circle' that lets you order things online and then collect them once a month, and also has a lot of things like meat that you can't easily find anywhere else. It's also cheaper than buying organic from the supermarkets! The problem is though that the produc list is in Finnish only, but if anyone's interested here's the link.

[skullmonkey]

In Tampere you find organic vegetables from the Kauppahalli (there's one booth where you only find luomu food) or from Runsaudensarvi http://www.runsaudensarvi.net/ and Ruohonjuuri. Sokos has a good collection of luomo veggies and fruits and some other organic food stuff.

If you have to eat meat, why not try Reindeer? It is so much tastier than beef, and has a significantly lower ecological footprint.