Comments on: Week 26 Results: 1.0 oz of plastic. http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/ Think we can't live without plastic? Think again. In 2007 I committed to stop buying any new plastic & I've almost succeeded! Won't you join me? Let's see what plastic-free looks like in 2012... for the health of our bodies, our oceans, our planet. ~Beth Terry Fri, 17 May 2013 22:46:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michelle http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-900 Michelle Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:35:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2007/12/week-26-results-1-0-oz-of-plastic/#comment-900 The bay area is the best place to be vegetarian! You’ll find tons of local restaurants that offer veggie options, although as a rule, the national chains aren’t as vegetarian friendly. I second the Golden Lotus recommendation. I also recommend Bobby G’s Pizza in Berkeley and if you’re ever in Sausalito, try Fish. I know its not vegetarian, but all of their fish is sustainable, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Mmmm. Good Eats!

]]> By: Merry http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-886 Merry Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:23:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2007/12/week-26-results-1-0-oz-of-plastic/#comment-886 Hi Beth,
I have been reading your blog for a couple of months and I think it’s very useful, insightful, and enjoyable. Thank you for writing it.

I was a vegetarian for 12 years and though I ate what is considered to be a healthy, varied, vegetarian diet I became very ill. In my search for answers I found the work of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the nutrition researchers who started it. It’s no exaggeration to say they saved my health.

These people care about a lot of the same things you do. They warn against plastic (and aluminum) containers for food and beverages, for example. Their recommendations and sources and recipes for eating local produce and local grass-fed dairy products, making sourdough bread, making real soup stock and lacto-fermented foods at home, etc., save a lot of plastic and other packaging and transportation waste…. They also care about the soil and the quality of life animals experience (Joel Salatin, the grass farmer Pollan describes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, is one of their members.)

I hope you’ll weigh this information from them in making your decision: http://westonaprice.org/tour/vegtourindex.html
At least read the letter to vegetarians. (After you click on “Letter to Vegetarians” you’ll see an index–scroll down for the letter.)

Most vegetarians aren’t familiar with the information on preparing grains and legumes to optimize their nutritional value, for example, or with the information on the dangers of soy. I wasn’t, and I so wish I had known these things!

I was a vegetarian because of my ecological commitments, but I actually think this organization offers a more thoughtful perspective on farm animals and ecology than most writers who advocate vegetarianism do.

Hope this is helpful!
Merry

]]> By: Taphophile http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-883 Taphophile Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:28:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2007/12/week-26-results-1-0-oz-of-plastic/#comment-883 Can’t quite come at vegitarianism myself but a possible solution to the Kleenex dilemma – handkerchiefs. They last for years and the older and softer they are the more I like them. Thrift stores usually have piles of them for sale, so you don’t have to buy new ones that usually come in plastic packaging.

]]> By: jessy http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-882 jessy Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:12:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2007/12/week-26-results-1-0-oz-of-plastic/#comment-882 hello again, Beth! i just wanted to tell you to visit the fat-free vegan kitchen (http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/). susan has so many yummy recipes there, and in the left hand column she has links to over 100 other vegan & vegetarian food blogs (labeled: “search over 215 veg blogs”). i visit her site and those linked for recipes and recipe ideas. http://vegandad.blogspot.com/ has some awesome recipes as well. oh, and also – pretty much anything from the cookbook: “vegan with a vengeance” or “veganomicon” is awesome. happy vegg’n! :)

]]> By: Stretch Mark Mama http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-881 Stretch Mark Mama Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:27:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2007/12/week-26-results-1-0-oz-of-plastic/#comment-881 I post a new vegetarian recipe every Friday on my site…

http://stretchmarkmama.blogspot.com/search?q=food+fixin%27+friday

]]> By: terrible person http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-880 terrible person Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:10:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2007/12/week-26-results-1-0-oz-of-plastic/#comment-880 Here is another piece from the Times, this one about the cardboard industry. An executive talks about recycling, and his hopes to use cardboard to replace other kinds of packaging. But isn’t a lot of cardboard coated, so, for example, it can carry color pictures of the toy inside the box?

Here is an NPR story on green burial. As far as I know, not much plastic is used in conventional burial — no plastic caskets, for instance, though I’m surprised they’ve never been marketed as an alternative to wood, in simulated woodgrain like the panels on the side of 70′s station wagons — but all sorts of other nasty and unnecessary chemicals and materials are, and leach into the ground.

]]> By: terrible person http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-879 terrible person Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:54:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2007/12/week-26-results-1-0-oz-of-plastic/#comment-879 In yesterday’s New York Times is this article on how fancy stores are making shopping bags that are better-looking and more durable, in the hope that customers will use them simply to carry their everyday goods, showing off that they can afford to shop at these stores, and giving the stores free advertising. Of course, the bags are plastic or plastic-coated paper. So, the question is, will the greater likelihood of reuse (do we have any idea what that is?) justify the larger amount of resources and energy required to make the bags? Does anyone actually take their fancy bag back to the fancy store and reuse it, or, for that matter, take it to another fancy store and use it there instead of getting another fancy bag? I’ll bet most of these fancy bags end up in the trash. Are there any readers in NYC who would like to do a survey of Park Avenue Dumpsters?

]]> By: SustainableStyle http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-878 SustainableStyle Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:14:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2007/12/week-26-results-1-0-oz-of-plastic/#comment-878 Perfect timing-I just finished our weekly meal plan! We’re not strict veggie (we eat fish, eggs and cheese) but we don’t eat meat. Here’s what we’re having this week:

*gardenburgers with salad and a side of corn with red peppers

*tofu stir fry over brown rice

*salmon (we eat fish) with wild rice and squash

*veggie pizza

*autumn veggie tarts

*tofu tacos with beans and rice

*tomato soup with shell pasta, bread and cheese

]]> By: har mar http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-877 har mar Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:56:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2007/12/week-26-results-1-0-oz-of-plastic/#comment-877 OMIGOD i am SO HAPPY!! YAYAY!!!

Oh yeah, i just pulled out your book last night. i have not forgotten about it. i’m going to try and read it while home visiting.

and i can definitely give you a million recipes and also the best fake meat products and tips. NOW you MUST go to Golden Lotus in Oakland. You will be amazed. The chicken dishes are so realistic im still sorta wondering if they REALLY are vegetarian. and also…you MUST get a tamale from Flaco’s at the berkeley farmers market. let me know what kind of recipes you want!! This makes me the happiest! :)

]]> By: Rosa http://myplasticfreelife.com/2007/12/week-26-results-10-oz-of-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-876 Rosa Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:50:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2007/12/week-26-results-1-0-oz-of-plastic/#comment-876 I bet you can buy soy products in bulk in your own containers, when you’re buying other bulk things.

I’m from the midwest so I love the Farm cookbook. I make a lot of the recipes I grew up on that called for cheap ground meat and just substitute TVP fried with onions & garlic for the meat – it has about the same texture.

But I think my absolutely favorite veggie meal is dal with brown rice, or saag paneer w/rice or chapati.

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