I have a salt tooth. Some people have sweet tooths, and I have those too, but I think I may be addicted to salt.

As a result, once in a blue moon I can’t help but enjoy a bag (consumed over days/weeks) of chips. Doritos, tortilla chips, and/or Humpty Dumpty BBQ potato chips (only available in Maine and sinfully delicious). Every time I indulge, I feel guilty, which I guess is a good thing! Someday I’ll try making my own chips and/or finding another way to get my salt fix! O:-)

http://www.marketingwithmeaning.com/2009/02/09/sun-chips-becomes-a-meaningful-brand/

The relevant paragraph says:

“Now the company is driving aggressively to do more in support of SunChips by doing more for the environment. Kumar described how Frito-Lay is working to invent the first completely biodegradable bag. A teaser video claimed that they are targeting Earth Day 2010 for its arrival, and he promised to give away the technology to all competitors. Naturally, SunChips will be the first to bring it to market.”

So I guess they are working on it but not ready to make it public? And, just to make sure we’re on the same page, you do still consider it a sin even if it comes in a biodegradable bag, right? Repent! Repent!

:-)

Woah! A sinfully salty snack for those bad day/bad mood pick-me-ups that won’t ruin my next day with plastic guilt? Self-centered as it is, this news made me grin even bigger than Beth’s oil-from-plastic news or Amazon’s new “frustration free” packaging program.

Unfortunately, I can’t find any more information about it online. Does anyone know?

Suggestions for the people above: To minimize the time the shower runs to get the water hot, I turn it to full-hot and fill a 1-gallon bucket. That’s just right to clear the cold water out of the pipes in the morning, and exactly the right amount to fill the humidifier each night too!

My parents have poor water pressure, so I grew up taking a comb into the shower to comb the last of the shampoo out. It really does help the running water rinse the residue away. Even though I have a low flow shower head now (2.5 gpm), their shower is still wimpier, so I fall back on the comb when I’m visiting, and that cuts down my shower time.

One solution to this would be blasting the heater, but of course, that’s yet another sin. So I’m afraid I’m just gonna have to put my Navy-shower hat on, grit my teeth and bear the cold, eh?

I also take long showers. Like Sadraki, I use showers to relieve pain. Another reason my showers are so long is that I simply can’t get shampoo or soap to rinse out of my hair quickly any more. I was fine back in the bad old days of high-flow showerheads, but with low-flow showerheads it takes ages to rinse completely.

I think it’s VERY important to teach people that they don’t have to do everything, they don’t have to turn into radical, granola greenies who shun all material things.

But do what you can, be proud of that, and enjoy those long, hot showers!

I felt *good* because I insisted our leftover pizza the other day go in a cardboard box instead of styrofoam. I time my showers at about 3 minutes and use a low-flow head that cuts it down to 2 gallons per minute, but yes, my water heater is turned up. I am gleefully eating the individually wrapped Reese’s peanut butter cups that someone gave us. I have Diet Dr Pepper in my laundry room, and sometimes I drink one. I have a child, and I drive a car; even though I semi-hypermile, I do it within reason and only get 22 miles per gallon. I don’t even own a bike because I hate riding on city streets AND I hate wearing a helmet and the two necessitate each other. I like bacon too (but do pay 3x as much for Coleman natural – yum), and we ate Popeye’s fried chicken for dinner recently. Sometimes I need a latte really bad and my cup isn’t with me. So I take a disposable cup! I do! And I, too, switched to clinical strength normal deodorant when I got sick of the lingering onion-and-mineral aroma of the natural stuff (not to mention hives in my underarms, except from the crystal, which only works once in a while for me).

Oh, Lord, I feel exposed now.

Seriously, I think we should focus on what we DO do instead of berating ourselves or being holier than thou about what we do, do. Probably those of us who are worried about those possibilities are the guilty parties. :)