erin and i sat down and had a chat last night about why we've been eating out so often lately and what we could do about it. we decided that we pretty much went from eating meat two or three times per day to maybe once a week, and that was too drastic of a change for us. we're not ready to be that vegetarian yet.
our compromise is that we're going to have "sustainable" (organic/local) meat each night as a step in the right direction because in the past we were getting all our meat at the grocery store based on price.
i feel a bit better about food now. a little bit.
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doing the blog thing. fifteen minutes at a time.
running tab of changes
- eating much less meat
- asking to be removed from catalog mailing lists
- buying "corn plastic" bags for trash bags
- biking the 1.4 miles to and from the train station instead of taking the bus
- walking the mile from the train station home
- picking up refundable recyclables on my way home
- shopping at thrift stores again instead of buying new
- diva cupping it
- taking cloth lunch tote to work
- re-using plastic lunch baggies
- not using my "personal" wastebasket at work for non-recyclables
- stopped using paper towels and paper napkins at work
- got a used bike
- composting in our back yard
- cooking our own beans (instead of buying canned)
- baking our own bread
- driving the car only once every 8 days or so
- unplugging everything when not in use
- using soapnuts and ecover non-chlorine bleach
- only washing clothes in cold water
- hanging laundry out to dry
- joined csa
- buying more food at the farmer's market than the grocery store
- gardening for food
- showers much abbreviated
- bucket to catch excess tub faucet water
- soak 'n' soap valve in showerhead
- 0.7gpm aerators installed in kitchen and bathroom
- low flow showerhead installed
- no air conditioning this summer
- 5 lightbulbs changed to cfl's
- using cloth bags at stores
3 comments:
That does sound like a wonderful compromise. If you can find a local farmer or even a local butcher, you can get hog or cow for a decent price. No guarantee of organic, but at least you will know if it was raised humanely and you will know it's local.
You can also look into goat, bison, and poultry depending on where you are.
Kim http://mrshoppes.livejournal.com/
kim,
i'd love to have an entire animal (or half of one) in my freezer, but i really don't have that kind of space and can't justify to myself the purchase of a chest freezer for it. i can get bison and poultry at the farmer's market (along with pork, mutton and lamb), so i'll stick with that for now. i AM trying to convince my lady that we can devote some room in the back yard to a couple of hens (mostly for eggs, though).
'nanna - if we ever get a chicken please don't eat it.
Thanks
-xtine
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