This is an older post, so I hope you see my questions (and I hope they’re not too silly) – when you cut off a piece of cheese to eat or cook with, do you wash the oil off of it before eating? And can you store smaller blocks of cheese like this, too – the kind that come shrink wrapped in plastic from the store? (I know that the point is to avoid the shrink-wrapped cheeses entirely, but until I find a source for cheese with no plastic, I was just wondered if I could store regular cheese this way.)

Thanks!

Once again, THANK YOU!

Again, your perseverance has inspired me, this time to keep searching for a good plastic-free cheese supply, AND you’ve taught me to preserve the cheese once I buy it. Amazing.

You rock!
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Since then, I haven't used the stuff, and we don't miss it at all. In fact, now I wonder why anyone would buy such rubbish!

We've also declared our home BPA-free. I sold my Tupperware Rock N Serves (made from BPA plastic) secondhand (they were too expensive to just throw away), tossed out everything else (our council does not recycle these plastics), and have declared a vendetta against this type of plastic in all its forms. We won't accept it in any shape or form, and will return gifts made of it.

Not extreme, but a start.

Next, I learned how to make yogurt out of that milk—-and then a type of cream cheese out of that yogurt. So—slowly, I'm getting my dairy containers down to what I am re-using.

I also learned how to make yogurt out of powdered milk—which comes in a cardboard box, and that box composts so very well in my garden. (:

On sailing holidays, we went out to dinner (once in 10 days – we're the broke sort!)at a pub.

We ordered two dinners, nachos and french fries for 2 adults, 1 kid. The quantity of food was mind blowing. So we needed to take away the whole basket of fries. But how? We asked for a box. No go, just styrofoam. So I used the two papers underneath to bundle it by tie-ing each one up across opposite corners like a kerchief. Then I bagged it in an Anarres Chico bag of mine.

So tied in paper! That's my recent antiplasticfreakshow success!