The blog formerly known as   Fake Plastic Fish

December 30, 2008

Video Tour of My (Nearly) Plastic-Free Kitchen

Here are some snippets from the market research video I referred to in yesterday’s post. A quick, rough, and unscripted tour through some of the green aspects of our kitchen. Future videos, should we choose to make them, will be much more polished. But this one is fun, if only for the appearance of a couple of curious cats halfway through.

You might need to turn your sound volume up to hear it.

4 Responses to “Video Tour of My (Nearly) Plastic-Free Kitchen”

  2. So, even if I transfer food items to glass containers, I still will be faced with using plastic lids?

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  3. Laura — the food wheel is specific to the SF Bay Area. There’s also one now for the New York Metro area. Here is a link to it. (It does come packaged in plastic.)

    http://www.localfoodswheel.com/

    Mariella — Fresh and Feisty is right. The lemon squeezer is absolutely not plastic. It’s very hard and squeezes out every last drop of juice… better than the kind where you twist the lemon around and around. And easier.

    Fresh and Feisty — I do think buying organic (when it comes to the stuff in my pantry — I wasn’t showing produce because the video was supposed to focus on the pantry) is better. I want to encourage organic growing. And to discourage chemical fertilizers and pesticides that pollute not only our bodies but the air and water where they are used. And I’m not happy about the use of GMO crops to create more and more pesticide resistant strains so that higher levels of pesticides can be used.

    However, I am open to being educated if my assumptions are wrong. Feel free to argue back! And does anyone else want to weigh in on the issue of organic?

    We do buy as much local produce as possible from the Farmer’s Market.

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