stitchinwitch, I'm so glad you started this!!! Many of us feel as you do.
I REFUSE to eat tomatoes unless they are in season and I buy them from farmers and we grow our own as well.
A good replacement for those awful tomatoes is fruit. My Mom used to cut up oranges and put in salads and I still do (so does she!) That was long before restaurants did it!! Lots of fruits taste great in a salad.
We only buy free-range chickens and eggs, beef. As much as we can we are going organic. Costs more but I'd rather eat better than spend the money elsewhere :)
I also pick dandelion greens in the yard- they are so nutritious !!
All my neighbors have perfect lawns but us.......... :D