[queenofthehivemomof5]

I think meat/dairy/are a good starting point myself and the areas where I personaly am focusing on. I would rather spend a little more on these and have them be organic and then offset that expence with traditional couponing. This works OK for me right now. I will get other organic products if I can get a deal bumy budget is just not going to allow $4 for a box of organic mac-n-cheese.

Produce is a hard one for me because what little organic produce they sell in my neck of the woods is trucked in from pretty far away and 1.) the carbon footprint is no better than conventionaly grown and 2) most of it is in bad shape on the produce stand with zuchinis all wilted and dry and stuff.... There are no real farmers markets here or farm stands (although I have heard that we do have a small farmers market in I think September till frost, which can be anytime in late september/early october) so we are growing our own this growing season.

I think taking it in baby steps and educating yourself is good. Its hard to go 100% organic though unless you are made of money.