What on earth are you doing in the supermarket?



What on earth are you doing in the supermarket?

	Sayonara supermarket, hello mail order! What's in that soy milk?


			While supermarkets generally do have lots of things that vegans can eat there are some things that you'd usually use at home that may be more difficult or more expensive to buy in regular supermarkets. Legumes and nuts are usually really expensive while tofu and other soy products are quite cheap. Supermarkets were stocking more and more certified and uncertified organic produce and groceries when I was there and probably more now which is excellent, but a wider range of items can be found at health food supermarkets and a couple of good mail order catalogues. There are 3 main classifications: yukisaibai, munoyaku, and gennoyaku.


		ORGANIC CERTIFICATIONS Certified organic. (yukisaibai) All certified organic products are marked with the JAS organic symbol. A picture of this symbol can be seen here in the top right hand corner of the page. Uncertified organic. (munoyaku) This is uncertified by JAS and typically has uncertified organic written in Japanese somewhere on the package. Low chemical. (gennoyaku) To what extent a farmer has to reduce the use of chemicals to say his or her produce is low chemical I'm not exactly sure but it has to be better than regular produce.

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