• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Lealou Cooks

Easy Meal Plans for Busy Families

  • Home
  • About Me
    • Contact Me
  • Work With Me
  • Free Guide: Make Cooking at Home Easier
  • Cooking Classes + Events
  • Lifestyle
  • Recipes
  • Shop
  • Cart

If You’re Going to Drink Wine, Drink Organic Wine. Here’s Why.

by Stephanie

If You’re Going to Drink Wine, Drink Organic Wine. Here’s Why.

I remember back in February when I hosted a 21-day food reset meal plan program with a group of women from my bootcamp and I started serving wine. They kind of looked at me funny—shouldn’t I be serving wheatgrass juice or something? Which is fine of course—I love green juice.

But I also really love wine.

Here’s the thing. I don’t want to make eating well to be torture. It’s already going to be hard enough for some people to switch from their current eating habits to a healthier way of eating. If you like wine, you should drink wine.

But there’s a caveat (ok two caveats). There always is right?

  1. I want you to try drinking organic wine.
  2. I want to you to reserve drinking wine for the weekends—and keep it to a couple of glasses if you can. Look at it like your weekend treat. The kids get a treat; you get a treat.

No problem right?

Ok so what’s the deal with organic wine?

First, I’ll give you the non-scientific, personal reason: I don’t feel like crap after drinking organic red wine. I don’t get a headache. I don’t feel foggy. I can continue on the next day without missing a step. And with two small kids, this is important!

This is not the case with conventional red wine. These days if I have more than two glasses of red wine, I will be on the couch for the majority of the following day.

I don’t have time for that.

I’m also done with feeling like crap after I eat and drink. I’m not 20 anymore.

The second non-scientific (but factual) reason: it’s the same price as conventional wine. This isn’t like the grocery store where organic produce is more expensive than conventional produce. You will find that organic wine is comparable to conventional wine for the most part (prices are going to vary of course for your fancy vintages…).

Ok now for some scientific and factual reasons:

• Grapes rank #8 on the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen List. This means that grapes have been found to be the eighth worst pesticide-laden produce type out of the top 48 types tested. In fact, the USDA Pesticide Data Program found that grapes contain 56 pesticide residues; of which eight are known or probable carcinogens, 17 are suspected hormone disruptors, 10 are neurotoxins, four are developmental or reproductive toxins and 19 are honeybee toxins.

Specifically, when it comes to wine grapes the data are worse: in 2010, wine grapes received more pesticides than table grapes—just over 26 million pounds of pesticides were used on wine grapes in California alone. Contrast that with organic wine grapes: Certified organic wineries cannot use toxic pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilizers to grow grapes.

• Organic wines cannot contain GMOs—conventional wine can use GMO yeast.

• Organic wine does not have added sulphites, which are chemicals used as preservatives to prevent browning and discolouration in foods and drinks.

Of course red wine can provide us with health benefits like reducing mortality by 30% and it contains antioxidants like resveratrol that help to fight inflammation, but studies have found that drinking too much alcohol can significantly increase breast cancer. That’s why I suggest keeping it to a couple of glasses a week.

These are just a few reasons why I tell people to drink organic wine if you’re going to drink wine. The options for organic wine are becoming more abundant so you don’t have to look as hard for them. The photo in this post is from my local LCBO–there’s a whole section now!

Try organic wine next time you have a glass of wine and see what you think!


P.S.: Follow me on Instagram to get weekly tips and tricks!

P.P.S.: Get other delicious recipes here!

Free Guide + Simple Recipes!

Get my Free Guide: 3 Tips to Make Cooking at Home Easier + Easy Recipes Meal Plan

Thank you for subscribing! Your free guide and recipe booklet is on its way!

Something went wrong.

We respect your privacy and take protecting it seriously

Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
Follow Me
RSS

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: organic red wine

Before Footer

Follow me on Instagram • @lealoulemonade

There’s nothing better than making a gourmet sna There’s nothing better than making a gourmet snack that would cost $10+ ($18??) in the store with what you have on hand at home.

✅Frozen berries
✅Frozen raspberries
✅Coconut yogurt
✅Protein powder
✅Walnuts
✅Shredded coconut

Also I’m saving my salsa and nut butter jars to make candles some day but maybe I’ll sell these instead. 😘.

Use what you have friends. ❤️
Christmas cookies comin’ up! I make these Almond Christmas cookies comin’ up! I make these Almond Raspberry Thumbprint cookies from @thatcleanlife because they delish and easy! I’m going to have to hide them before the kids get home and hubby gets off his call. Otherwise they’ll be gonzo!
Every season change, I find myself saying ‘Oh, t Every season change, I find myself saying ‘Oh, this is why we moved here.’ It’s so beautiful. (We’ll see if I still feel this way in March. 😂).
I made granola today! I actually don’t make it I made granola today!

I actually don’t make it that much if at all. I never buy it. I got tired of going to the store, looking at ingredients and not buying anything. 

Granola is sooooo easy to make and you can control all of the ingredients! 

Yahoo!

I adapted this recipe from @onceuponachef. 

Easy peasy.

Footer

About Stephanie

Photo of a white woman with brown hair

Hey! I'm Stephanie. I'm a Writer, Culinary Nutrition Expert and Cooking Instructor helping families cook nourishing meals. Read more about me {here}.

Popular Posts

  • 8 Easy Tips for Making Soup
  • Kids Not Eating Dinner? Try this!
  • Eat what you love.
  • The Best Pots and Pans to Use for Healthy Cooking
  • Etsy Gift Guide 2021

etsy kitchen utensils and linen napkins

Copyright © 2023 · Wellness Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

Before you go...

You might be interested in these posts:

Lifestyle

3 Tips To Make Cooking At Home Easier

Lifestyle

What is Kombucha? With Melissa Torio

mug with a black cat on it
Lifestyle

Etsy Gift Guide 2021