How to save lots of money on organic foods!

​I came across this brilliant company this week and the savings they offer on top of the range organic products is quite extraordinary! All my favourite brands from Clearspring, Clipper, Amisa, Dr Stuarts, Faith in Nature, Bentley Organic, Nutiva, Vitalife and loads more. The range of products is exceptional and covers Food, Drinks, Kids, Household, Supplements and even Pets. There are also loads of gluten free products, which are generally expensive so the savings on these are substantial. Pretty much everything is organic so if you want to improve your health and have been using the excuse of I can’t afford to eat well, you can now!! The discounts on offer range from 40% to 90% with most of the products I purchased around 70% discount.

You may well wonder, as I did, how the heck is this possible and what is the catch?

Well the company is Love Health Hate Waste. For a minute I thought it was Love Food Hate Waste, who I follow on Twitter since I genuinely hate food waste. Intrigued I checked out their website, what a brilliant inspired idea, this company passes on huge discounts on healthy organic food which is at or beyond its Best Before Date.
Now I’m fairly knowledgable on food waste since I ran a series of food workshops funded by Love Food Hate Waste a few years ago.
While half of the world are starving, the other half throws away mountains of perfectly good food. It’s shocking, every year in the UK we throw away 7.2 tonnes of food and drink, most of which could have been eaten.
There is a bit of confusion about the meaning of Best Before and Use By labels on food. Where Use By relates to the safety of food, and should be adhered to, especially for meat, fish and dairy products which can cause illness if consumed past these dates.
Best Before, on the other hand, relates to food quality and has nothing to do with food being unsafe to eat. It’s mostly found on packets, tinned and dried foods. These foods will typically start to lose their flavour and texture after that date, but that’s all it means!
This date is the manufacturers estimate of when the premium quality of its product may start to deteriorate, it doesn’t mean the food should be thrown away!
So back to the point of this post which is to save you lots of money on your favourite organic health brands!
Jenna and I had a great time checking out the discounts on all our favourite products and some of them were at 90% discount, which is a massive saving!
Here is a small selection of the products we bought.

1. Organic Traditions Sprouted Flax Seed Powder
2. Nutiva Organic Raw Shelled Hempseed
3. Clearspring Organic Snack Mix
4. Clipper Organic Blueberry & Elderberry Tea bags.
5. Floradix Dandelion Tea
6. Vitalife Organic Mungbeans
7. Big Oz Quinoa Flakes
8. Marriages Master Millers Organic Wholemeal flour
9. Marriages Master Millers Organic Spelt Flour
10. Amisa Gluten Free Multiseed Crispbreads
11. Alara Fairtrade Muesli
12. Coconut Miracle Coconut Butter
13. Bentley Organic Washing Up Liquid
14. Bentley Organic Calming Body Lotion
15. Faith in Nature Aloe Vera Shampoo
16. Optima Australian Tea Tree Oil
17. Organic Aloe Vera Gel
18. Vitalife Organic Pumpkin Seeds
19. Vitalife Organic Sunflower Seeds
20. Cocoa Loco Organic Mixed Chocolate Truffles

 
The majority of the products we bought had BB dates of August or September so considering we ordered mid September, most of the products had just recently passed the BB date. Interestingly a lot of the organic body products had BB dates of 2016 and to be honest I don’t think the quality of a shampoo or washing up liquid would deteriorate significantly anyway even quite far beyond its recommended Best Before Date.
Similarly,  Floradix Dandelion teabags had BB of April 2016 and were still sold at a massive discount.
The most out of date product we purchased was Amisa Organic Gluten Free Crispbreads which was 6 months beyond its date. Although they were still perfectly edible they had a slightly stale flavour and weren’t as crisp as I would have expected.
We bought quite a selection of raw and organic chocolate, which we ate before I decided to write this post but I wouldn’t buy it again, especially one of the bars which had hazelnuts in it and tasted a bit rancid. Generally anything with a high fat content such as chocolate and nuts is going to go off quickly so I wouldn’t recommend buying either of those.  I do love raw organic chocolate but its definitely not at its peak beyond its BB date.
There is no mention on the website of the actual BB date for each product so you just have to take your chances but if you avoid buying chocolate and nuts then your products should be just fine.
The range changes all the time depending on what is available and postage is free if you spend more than £50, which is quite easy to do since there are so many brilliant products to choose from. You could always share an order with a few friends to qualify for the free postage! So what are you waiting for, click the link and start shopping!
 
Here is the website- www.lovehealthhatewaste.com

               ........your health in your hands...........
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