The Dirty, Dirty Dozen

I love my Ipad. My entire life is on it. Really it is! Everything from my home cleaning routines, grocery lists, gardening, homeschooling and well games. I love the games. I don't know how I ever survived before I got it. This past week I realized I hadn't checked out all the latest apps in the itunes store for quite some time. So I sat down with a cup of sparkling lemonade and went on a search..

The very first thing I looked for was to see if the creators of yummysoup had completed the app for the ipad. I absolutely LOVE the computer version for keeping my recipes and for planning my weekly menus. But sadly it wasn't available. So I searched further and found an app called Dirty Dozen. The title certainly caught my attention and it's free. I decided to download it and see what it was all about.

Dirty Dozen in a nutshell is a shoppers guide to the pesticides on our produce. The app gives you the twelve dirtiest items along with the fifteen cleanest and everything in between. I try to buy as much of my produce from the organic section or from local farmers. But sometimes, in reality that just isn't possible. The cost alone of organic is expensive and when you are on a tight budget. Organic can really send your grocery bill sky high.

Since downloading the app I have been able to make some better decisions on what I purchase and what is brought into my home. I've been choosing organic versions of the "dirty dozen" to lower the amount of chemicals that are brought into my home.

Dirty Dozen

Buy Organic When Possible. 

They have the highest pesticides when grown conventionally.

1. Apples

2. Celery

3. Strawberries

4. Peaches

5. Spinach

6. Nectarines (Imported)

7. Grapes (Imported)

8. Sweet Bell Peppers

9. Potatoes

10. Blueberries

11. Lettuce

12. Kale and Collard Greens

Cleanest Fifteen

These have the lowest amounts of pesticides

 when grown conventionally.

1. Onions

2. Corn

3. Pineapples

4. Avocado

5. Asparagus

6. Sweet peas (Frozen)

7. Mangoes

8. Eggplant

9. Cantaloupe (Domestic)

10. Kiwi

11. Cabbage

12. Watermelon

13. Sweet Potatoes

14. Grapefruit

15. Mushrooms