Comments on: Step 4 – Avoid GMOs

By: Kelly @ Domestic by Design

Kelly @ Domestic by Design — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:35:43 +0000

Jenn, I’ll address many of the points that you mentioned at the close of our series. The one food I’ve found that is GMO that is in many, many things is corn and corn products. It has not been expensive to eliminate it or replace it. Organic corn is more expensive, but we don’t eat it often. I make my own salad dressings and we don’t items with high fructose corn syrup in it.

I understand the time, money and research, but I hope that this series will be helpful with the research part. And remember, if you’re husband isn’t one board, it’s most important to honor and submit to his desires!

Thanks for your comment and keep them coming!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:05:17 +0000

If it is possible to still buy the same amount of food for the same amount of $$, maybe I could make it happen, but if it means I have to pay triple the amount for non GMO’s with my husband losing his job in 4 months, he is not going to be happy nor supportive.

I know as wives and Moms we want to give our families the best. I have been making much more than I used to by scratch—mostly not for health reasons , but because of time and it is better to know how to make an emergency hamburger helper by scratch than to leave whiny hungry kids with the work at home hubby to brave the 5pm grocery store rush just for a box of HH. for me it started with logistics—just had to be honest!

Now if my husband wants non-GMO food, I will be happy to let him make the menu and go shopping for all non-GMO foods and he can see how much they cost. Then he can make my life easier by doing all the research for me and writing down the names of the places where he bought it all for an entire week for under $100. With Homeschooling and raising 3 children, I do not have the time to run all over town to all the expensive organic huts just to get the right stuff.

Lest you think I’m being bitter about this or sarcastic…. really, I am not. I would love to be able to do this, but financially and logistically, it would be a nightmare!

By: Amy K.

Amy K. — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:11:37 +0000

Holy Cow! It is easy to be overwhelmed by all of this information. Thanks again!

By: Elizabeth (Lassiter) Steele

Elizabeth (Lassiter) Steele — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:37:56 +0000

I appreciate you writing this post, as this is a topic (GMO’s) that I need to study a bit more. We’ve been in the process of adding the good and eliminating the bad on a super tight budget, so the more info I have, the better. Thanks!