Comments on: BillieRyder – Plastic Trash Eating Challenge – Week #7

By: Fake Plastic Fish

Fake Plastic Fish — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:48:44 +0000

The cheese I bought is very hard. Like parmesan. It's delicious but requires quite a bit of effort to cut and then to grate. So that extra effort keeps me from eating it all at once.

By: thetoltecpath

thetoltecpath — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:47:44 +0000

I've been eliminating plastic for over a year. Very challenging. Buy milk in cardboard cartons instead of plastic jugs. Buy cheese that is packaged in waxed paper. The deli thing is a challenge and I'm working on that, maybe bring my own waxed paper in and ask them to wrap the contents in it. I bought 8 x 10" muslin bags to buy my loose produce in (mushrooms, green beans) so I don't have to use the plastic baggies they provide. Also, get refills on shampoo and cooking oils, etc in glass jars from the co-op. This is not impossible, good job and keep it going!

By: SusanB

SusanB — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:59:45 +0000

Billie, I love my cheese, and I've found over time that keeping a lot of it around actually cuts way down on my seeing it as something to binge on — also making the investment in a wheel of cheese makes the cost of excessive sampling easy to remember and also serves as a deterrent. However, and its a big however, when I first started having a lot of cheese around, I ate a lot too. When I lived in Switzerland, there was a wheel of Gruyere in the basement, and once a week, someone went downstairs and carefully cut out a wedge which was served at breakfast that week.