Anybody else getting frustrated with our produce choices in the grocery stores? Regular produce having a bitter, chemical taste to them and feeling dead, energy-wise. Stores that do make an honest effort to provide organic produce charge way too much and keep them on the shelves way too long, and who can blame them, I hate to see good food go to waste too. No easy, full-proof way to tell if something is GMO (genetically modified) without becoming a codebreaker. This lack of transparency is so frustrating to me, personally. Like they are trying to slip something by us under our noses or something.
Looking it up, here are a few tips to breaking the PLU code on the stickers on fruits and veggies (that’s the sticker with a number that the cashier uses to ring up your purchase and sometimes has a barcode.)
- A 4-digit number means it was grown by “conventional or traditional” methods using chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
- 5-digit code and the number starts with an 8 means it is a GMO.
- 5-digit code and the number starts with a 9 means Organic and not a GMO.
Do you see how confusing it is? Definitely some subliminal techniques to make it difficult for us to remember, so make up your own little useful mnemonic to help you keep it straight.
“5 digits beginning with a 9, you will do fine.” Or “59, (something that rhymes)”
The quality of home grown fruits and veggies is everything compared to what is showing up in our grocery stores. We are what we eat, so in order to heal ourselves so that we can achieve our own person missions as well as our collective mission to help the Earth, we really need to put clean foods that have energy into our bodies. It’s going to become more important in the months and years to come, so let’s start thinking now in a way that helps ourselves best. I am really grateful that our stores are beginning to carry more organics- Yeah! I’m grateful that more family farms are letting their soil heal and come alive again to begin growing organic (see the movie/documentary “Sustainable” on Netflix.) I am really grateful that this quiet revolution that is responding to the Earth’s call is becoming strong with a heart and a light-filled consciousness, and that we are all climbing aboard.