Day 1

Ok so its our first day plastic free. Although nothing is really different yet. Obviously we have stuff in our fridge and shelves that came in plastic, but instead of drastically getting rid of it all - as in the 100mile Challenge - we would just let it run out normally and then have to find an alternative then. And no we didn't sneakily stock up beforehand either ;)

This morning Ceire made bread instead of buying our usual plastic-wrapped Nature's Fresh. The breadmaker came from a dark corner of Ceire's parent's attic, banished to the great kitchen appliance graveyard along with other "this will change our lives!" purchases (pie maker.. milkshake machine..popcorn machine.. the list goes on..) But now rescued, Breadmaker will be pumping out its delicious smell and random loud churning for the next 100 days at least. It will take a bit of practice though, the loaf that came out didn't look that impressive, (we'll add a picture next time.) Ceire also baked Sicilian apple cake - YUM.

Oh, we do have 1 exception - Milk. This has no alternative to plastic packaging. "Cartons, duh." we hear you say, but no... these are lined with plastic, and so the combination of paper and plastic is non recyclable. So we deemed that PET (which is 100% recyclable here) is the better of two evils. On the milk note, there is supposedly a farmer from who you can get old style glass bottles full of milk, so we do plan to track him down.

Still not too sure what we will do about meat. Hopefully the local butcher will let us bring our own container, or just wrap it in paper.