Courtesy of www.juliemorris.netA friend just told me about Julie Morris' website which is devoted to "an eco-friendly exploration of simple, flavorful, and natural food made for fabulous living and wellness." Check it out, I for one am dying to try this Indigo Granita that packs an antioxident punch with blueberries and acai. (Thanks Miel!)
I just finished eating my brown bag lunch, and I'm proud of myself for not going to the New Season's to buy lunch. I used to get their delicious $5 Caesar salad at least once a week. I think I have gotten it once in the last three weeks since starting this endeavor. I made flour tortillas from scratch last night, as well as a filling of aborio rice with red chile, onions, tomatoes, crumbled feta, and sliced almonds for crunch. I brought them to work in separate reusable tupperwares. But then I realized I needed a plate for the assembly, and so I grabbed a paper plate from the stash available to us in the break room. And then tossed it after I finished lunch. How wasteful! I already have a desk set of flatware, and a mug and a bowl too, don't ask me how they ended up here. I never use the mug and bowl. But a plate I would use, I need to bring a plate.
Which got me to thinking about cloth napkins, as I tossed that paper towel away with the paper plate. I can't remember the last time I used a cloth napkin outside of a restaurant. It seems most people use paper. Imagine all the trees, all the energy and pollutants during production, packaging, and transportation of paper napkins. The current US population is 307,341,590 (http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html). If half the population used one paper napkin every other day, that's 2.8 billion napkins per year going in the trash! Cloth napkins you just toss in the wash, right? Seems easy enough. And would save money in the long run, so it's a win-win.
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