Organic Grocery Store List

Want to eat organic? Forget about Lotte Mart and EMart. These are smaller scale operations that are supporting the organic farmer. They are devoted to safe foods and they have my support.

I wrote a blog entry on Hansalim. They are small stores which support local farmers in the area. They have a great selection of prepared food, vegetables, fruit, and frozen organic meat. I buy organic bones here for broths. Here is there website.

There is Shinsi: http://www.shinsi.net/. They are similar to Hansalim in small scale stores. I don't know much more. I haven't been there yet but I plan on soon.

There is Heuksalim which does a weekly CSA delivery. Read about it on my blog. I should be getting my first CSA box delivered very soon!

On the ICoop website,  there are many locations available. They are a bigger company and distribute organic products for many organic farmers in Korea. I would rather support Hansalim and Heuksalim anyday because they are on a smaller scale but this is a good organic store, I've heard.

There is Choruk Maeul.  The food is either low chemical content, zero chemical content, or organic. There are fresh foods and frozen foods from fresh fruit and vegetables; ice cream; organic wine; organic coffee; grains; milk, frozen pizza, and eggs. All meat is antibiotic free too. Daegu Green Alliance has a good review here. 


There is Nature House. The website is here. I went stumbled into one once upon a time and saw there wasn't much fresh food and a lot of prepared foods instead and supplmements. 

Local Food Hunt

I am often in one grocery store on the way home from work to buy something fresh for dinner. I don't commit to buying a lot of vegetables these days when I am in a store at least twice a week to get fresh fish. I am trying to be mainly pescetarian these days after what I know about the state of industrial animal raising. If I can buy organic grass fed local meat I will and I believe organic red meat is important for my body every once in a while so I wish to find an environmentally friendly source.

This week, besides my normal visits to the market I went  to a Han Seuri store  near Banghak Station, this week to see what organic and local options including meat that  I can incorporate into my diet. They are a farmers co-op which is local and organic produce and even meat.

I was please I did find lots of the usually good staples filled and the weird and wonderful. The variety is limited but that is because local things are seasonal so I apples are not going to be sold here.

There was a lot of frozen grass fed beef too which interests me and pork which might interest somebody.

Beans

Red Rice

                                                                                    

Whole Meal Rice

Barley

Brown Rice

All different colored flours like:

Some green vegetable flour?

Brocolli flour? That's a bit weird.

Millet

White Organic Flour

Whole Wheat Flour

Another type of rice.

I didn't know what many of these items were until I looked them up because many of the rice looked the same. I left with organic flour and some wild vegetable root. 

 I definately would go there again.  It was a successful find for  local sources of grain and meat. Paradoxically seemingly the grains were also cheaper  than the super market.  The meat was frozen and sold in bulk. Just it looked like really good quality.

At Lotte Super this week as well to pick up some water because the tap water here is not drinkable and I saw mushrooms to make decoctions including my favorite decoction mushroom, Chaga. I am really happy that Korea has such medicinal substances for sale in a grocery store.

Deer Tendon

Chaga

Near Han Neuri I saw a box of these for ten thousand won. I was still looking for Han Neuri so I said if they are still available the next time I go to Han Neuri than I could buy some of these to pickle for the summer weather. 

I love tomatoes in the summer time.