Sunday, August 15, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Day 44
Yay! I remembered about Philidelphia cream cheese.... it comes in a foil block in a cardboard box. So yesterday I bought some and made yum creamy tomato pasta. It has made my week to find a dairy product that is not in plastic!
And.. the package design is brilliant. They have used all faces, including the inside of the box for handy hints and recipes, so I guess you could even keep them filed on your recipe shelf for future reference. Mmmm cream cheese.
I can't believe we are almost halfway. It is definitely becoming second nature - both of us (separately) bought TimTams as a gift for overseas relatives and then we were talking about it today how we both felt like we were being really naughty and wrong by buying something in plastic. So this makes me wonder if after the challenge will we be riddled with eco-guilt every time we pick up a plastic product, knowing that we haved lived without them and that there is most likely a better alternative..??
I definitely want other people to try this, even for a week? If you decide to, let me know how it goes.
More photos soon :)
And.. the package design is brilliant. They have used all faces, including the inside of the box for handy hints and recipes, so I guess you could even keep them filed on your recipe shelf for future reference. Mmmm cream cheese.
I can't believe we are almost halfway. It is definitely becoming second nature - both of us (separately) bought TimTams as a gift for overseas relatives and then we were talking about it today how we both felt like we were being really naughty and wrong by buying something in plastic. So this makes me wonder if after the challenge will we be riddled with eco-guilt every time we pick up a plastic product, knowing that we haved lived without them and that there is most likely a better alternative..??
I definitely want other people to try this, even for a week? If you decide to, let me know how it goes.
More photos soon :)
Monday, August 9, 2010
Day 40!
Helloooo
Whoops it has been a while since we last wrote. Busy busy!
Things are going well. It has gotten a bit harder recently as everything we had that was from pre-challenge has now run out, so we are truely living plastic-free.
We took our usual trip to the Farmer's market on Saturday, and I have to say I was quite disappointed to see more and more store holders pre-paking their wares in horrible plastic bags! Even the potato man who usually uses these great tough brown paper bags has swapped half his stuff to plastic, and our usual stall had 'conveniently' packaged up bags of vegetables. Boo!
So we only ended up buying silverbeet and half a pumpkin since everything else we wanted was wrapped. Seems a bit ironic that the more sustainable shopping option actually isn't.
We just want loose veges like in the supermarket, is that too much to ask? don't think you grow those plastic bags now do you..?
We also shopped at Taste Nature, where we got some bulk sugar and refilled our laundry liquid. It was good to be able to reuse our perfectly container again, although it turned out to be very expensive ....eeek. Next time we may just have to switch to powder which comes in a cardboard box, although this usually leaves dusty residue all over the clothes, and since our machine only has cold water to run on, this probably does not help.
We visited New World in the city which has a great butchery counter. They were using paper for most items anyway which was good to see, so they didn't mind leaving out the little plastic sheet.
I (Ceire) have a confession, I went shopping for craft supplies and everything was in plastic but I bought it anyway. Naughty I know. I will add and extra day to the challenge....
Whoops it has been a while since we last wrote. Busy busy!
Things are going well. It has gotten a bit harder recently as everything we had that was from pre-challenge has now run out, so we are truely living plastic-free.
We took our usual trip to the Farmer's market on Saturday, and I have to say I was quite disappointed to see more and more store holders pre-paking their wares in horrible plastic bags! Even the potato man who usually uses these great tough brown paper bags has swapped half his stuff to plastic, and our usual stall had 'conveniently' packaged up bags of vegetables. Boo!
So we only ended up buying silverbeet and half a pumpkin since everything else we wanted was wrapped. Seems a bit ironic that the more sustainable shopping option actually isn't.
We just want loose veges like in the supermarket, is that too much to ask? don't think you grow those plastic bags now do you..?
We also shopped at Taste Nature, where we got some bulk sugar and refilled our laundry liquid. It was good to be able to reuse our perfectly container again, although it turned out to be very expensive ....eeek. Next time we may just have to switch to powder which comes in a cardboard box, although this usually leaves dusty residue all over the clothes, and since our machine only has cold water to run on, this probably does not help.
We visited New World in the city which has a great butchery counter. They were using paper for most items anyway which was good to see, so they didn't mind leaving out the little plastic sheet.
I (Ceire) have a confession, I went shopping for craft supplies and everything was in plastic but I bought it anyway. Naughty I know. I will add and extra day to the challenge....
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