Organic food and ecological products in Oman

This is gonna be a bit different blog post, based on my interest in organic food and ecological products. I am not a vegetarian, only small part of my food is organic but I try to use as many ecological products as possible. Being here I have had several positive and negative surprises considering the topic.

Being vegetarian in Oman and junk food
My friend who is a vegetarian told me that it is very easy to be a vegetarian here in Oman. Selection of vegetarian dishes is usually good in most of restaurants. On contrast, international junk food chains are in every corner and - the locals seem to be fond of junk food as well.

Organic food
The big supermarkets have got some selection of organic food. In Carrefour there is a special counter for organic fruits and vegetables, and special counter for other organic food but organic products can be also found in between regular products. In example choice of raw cane sugar, stevia and similar is very good and the prices are cheaper than in Estonia. Lulu and Al Fair have also got many organic food products.

When it comes to regular food products, one always have to read the ingredients' list on the label, in example there are some juices that say 100% natural or 100% juice but when you see the ingredients there are very often added sugar or it contains some E-ingredients.

Ecological products in Oman
One of our first tasks here was to find ecological house cleaning stuff. In between huge shelves full of different home chemistry we were lucky to find few Ecover products. I have also seen some "natural products" shop in some malls but there was only cosmetics and body/hair care products sold. Well, better than nothing. And "natural" can mean anything here! In general, locals seem to have very little or no knowledge of what you mean by ecological/organic.

Organic food shop in Muscat?
Even if web search gave us information about a store called Organic House in Muscat we did not find it. After some more research I found one organic food store in Dubai that also delivers to Muscat (http://www.organicfoodsandcafe.com/)

Ecological/natural disposable diapers in Oman
...do not exist! This is my conclusion after many days of research: web search (only one article telling about the disadvantages of the usual diapers but when I sent the question to the person who wrote the article she had no idea if there were any ecological disposable nappies available here. At least she gave me some tips where to ask), sending e-mails (to Mothercare who has natural diapers in their UK webshop but the local unit said they did not export any nappies to Mothercare stores in the Middle East), asking in forums (got some hope when someone answered there were some natural diapers at Al Fair but we did not see any; another response was that such diapers were not available here at all). My only hope is to order some from Dubai.

EDITED: I found cloth diapers at Lulu! The selection of diaper covers was also good! Well done, Lulu! (It does not help with the problem of not having natural disposable diapers available, but a good alternative anyway).