Organic food has become popular in the past couple years even with its steep price in comparison to non organic produce. However, with everyone strapping for cash these days, one of the ways to save money is to buy less organic food (that is if you are buying in the first place).
FoodNews.org has come up with a shopping guide that lists produces that contains a lot of pesticides vs those doesn’t. The idea is you can cut your cost by simply purchase those “dirty” produce organic while shop in the usual manner for the “clean ones”.
The list surprised me as I expect strawberries to be #1 on worst list. I have heard so many horror stories regarding strawberries. On the other hand, I would expect apple to be clean since if you peel an apple, there shouldn’t be much pesticide left. Either way, you can look over this list and do more research. The less organic you buy, the fatter your wallet is. 
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Sometimes organic is cheaper than conventional, so don’t think that organic is automatically more expensive. Organic onions where I live are often the same price or cheaper than regular onions.
Hi Der, thanks for visiting my blog.
Thanks for pointing it out and you are correct that there are times when organic stuff might be actually cheaper than non-organic. Which gives us a better reason to look after the pricing of the produces that we purchase on a daily basis.
Hi Plin, Good article at a perfect time for my part of the country. Right now is summer and all the farmer’s have their stands up and running. With the economy the way it has been you would think that one could get our produce a little bit less at the farmer’s stand, but this is not the case especially this year. I do realize that the farmer is suffering also with the expense that he has to put into his gardens. So your organic vs. non organic is right on and I must say that one does really have to look and compare. I love your Shopper’s Guide list and the link for it, I’m sure we’ll all find it very useful. Thanks Plin. jj