Oh boy oh boy! Our first challenges!
Remember that we've been traveling and haven't gone grocery shopping since we got back -- so there's virtually nothing to eat in the house. I made a nice breakfast burrito with canned refried beans, a tortilla, and an egg. Rick looked in the fridge and then said in a desultory voice, "I want bagels."
Bagels, of course,come in a plastic bag. Unless you buy them the expensive way, what Rick calls "by the each."
Maybe you could take your own bag into the bagel shop and ask to buy them in bulk? Off Rick went to the bagelerie, but he lost his nerve, or something, and ended up buying an expensive single bagel to eat on the spot, with a cup of hot chocolate (not in a to-go cup, of course.) Maybe another day.
But then he had a great triumph at the grocery store. Summer is over; the fall rains, dreary gray skies and relentless chill have set in, but there's good news: it's pot-pie season. Our groc shop makes homemade pot pies so fabulous they almost make winter worth it. So Rick went to the pot-pie counter and asked to be handed the pies without said pies first being stuffed into baggies, which is the usual practice. State law is stern about the matter of deli items going into second-hand containers: it's a no-no, because of the cooties. But it seems that if no second-hand container is involved in the transaction, and the pie is just handed directly to the customer to bag for himself, well then...
I totally commend you guys for undertaking this experiment! Just to let you know, canned foods do contain plastic, as the cans are lined with plastic and most contain BPA. Good luck on the rest of your journey!
ReplyDeleteAren't you lucky to have friends like Adam --snort--.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the pot pie. We may have to look into it (inside a container, though, I'm afraid).