...and I was having trouble finding it plastic free until today! After some awkward conversations with various butchers, it seemed to be not ok to bring your own container for raw meat in a regular grocery store. I found a butcher shop in my neighborhood that said I could bring my own container in, but they're only open M-F 7-4. But when I called the meat manager at my beloved Ballard market (who happened to have an adorable, unmistakably New Zealand accent), he said they could definitely help me and he would tell his guys that I was coming in. Huzzah!
Now if my requests for glass bottle milk go equally well (the dairy manager has tired of my calls and perhaps the calls of other crazy Seattle hippies and claims that they are working on ordering it), I won't have to go to three separate places to get my staples. (Still need to go to farmers market for cheese, but not every week. And they have bulk dry parmesan cheese topping at the BM! Thank you, god of bulk bins.)
And with all this foraged, plastic free food, I'm still eating well...
My diet this week included a vegetable soup into which I threw every part of every vegetable in my fridge. This included wilting radish greens, the orange AND green parts of my farmers market carrots, a drying onion half, leeks and a few fresh beans. Threw in some chicken stock (from the bulk bin in a reused bag of course) and let it simmer for two days. My roommate Sarah tried it and asked how I got it so thick...we agreed that it was the starch from the beans. It was delicious! Mmmmm, tastes like responsible choices.
This week's package free convenience food: refrigerator cookie dough. You know those tubs of cookie dough that you can buy at fundraisers or at the store? A regular tollhouse recipe works the same way. I made a batch a few days ago and froze half, and kept half in the fridge (I reused big yogurt containers that my roommates have been saving for me). Last night I baked 4 cookies. Package free and without having to eat 2 dozen cookies!
My count this week:
*1 square inch of plastic - on a rubber band holding my 3 heads of organic broccoli together, touting the farms good practices. I may call that organic farm and tell them to just use the pesticides. Kidding!
*A sheet of butcher paper and a plastic bag from flank steak at Fred Meyer. This is the last one!
Coming down the pike: I'm in the market for a new toothbrush. PCC sells ones made from recycled yogurt cans. Anyone know how to make one out of hemp?
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