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I've made the decision for myself to choose to eat as healthy as I possibly can, and eat the foods that are most pesticide-filled as organic.

I started experimenting with healthy and organic things a few months ago and of course my Dad protested it as being useless, and a waste of money, and not of his "ways"and that I'm only following the "white men". Whatever the hell that means.

I'm taking it more seriously and I've made a meal plan with exactly what I will eat for the week, and what I'm going to make so I can only buy what I need from the store. Nothing more, and nothing less.

I asked my dad just about 10 minutes ago if we can go out grocery shopping so I can pick up a few things and he just blew up on me and starting screaming that if he lived like me, he would get nowhere in life and that I'm not some rich person that can buy organic food and do whatever I want.

Then he started telling me about all the food he has bought that has gone to waste because it has gone bad. And that he doesn't want ME wasting his money anymore on groceries. And mind you, it was everything I told him NOT to buy because I told him specifically that no one would eat or drink it and it would go to waste. Why did he buy it? Only because it was for sale.
Honestly, I don't understand it.

Talk about being frugal gone wrong.

Anyways, to make things clear. My Dad does NOT pay for my groceries. I pay for ALL and any of the groceries I choose to purchase whether they are organic or not. So the issue is not on if HE can financially afford my diet since I pay it for it myself.

Anyways. I just want some sort of advice or a view point on someone who is not in the issue so that I can understand it. I probably can't understand his mindset right now because I'm
on the opposite side.

I just want to know if what I am doing is wrong or if my Dad is just over-reacting (which he tends to do a lot).

I think your dad is over-reacting. My dad is the same way and has fought me on this issue, too. Organic food isn't a trend like some people think it is. It's food that hasn't been treated with pesticides. Of course a normal, sane person is going to want to avoid pesticides at all costs, so I don't think eating organic is extreme at all...However, it can be expensive when it comes to fruit. I would suggest buying non-organic fruit where the outside can be removed, such as: melons, oranges, pineapple, or kiwi.

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(Rating: 4) Thanks for the advice! It makes things so much easier to bare when you know someone has gone through the same thing.

And that's exactly what I do. I buy thick-skinned produce like pineapples, kiwi, bananas, and melons as non-organic since it doesn't make much of a difference.

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