I stopped eating cereal after visiting an organic farm in the Caribbean in 2011. We ate organic homemade granola for breakfast every morning, topped with freshly harvested coconut milk and tropical fruit. After that, I purged store-bought cereal from our diet. You can’t make out some of the prices in the pic of the Safeway […]
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Stove-Top Popcorn
Click here to go straight to the recipe. When I gave up plastic in 2011, I stopped eating processed food. That means no snack food unless I make it myself. So as my waste decreased, my diet improved. It’s a win-win! (And I haven’t been sick since 2011. Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not.) But I still […]
How to Sew Reusable Cloth Produce and Bulk Bags
I’ve been diligent about using cloth shopping bags for literally decades now (I bought my first cloth bag in 1988). But until recently, I rarely used cloth produce bags. I’m all for plastic bag bans, but we need to address the plastic produce bag issue—those things generate huge amounts of plastic waste. So in 2011, when […]
How to Cook Black Beans
Click here to go straight to the recipe. Updated 01/19/21 Update 07/16: I now have a pressure cooker and cook my beans in that. IT IS SO FAST! Read more here. I don’t eat canned beans (or canned anything for that matter), for several reasons: Cans are lined with plastic that often contains BPA. Because […]
Zero-Waste Bulk Shopping
Today, after going to the farmer’s market, I went shopping at Rainbow Grocery, or what I like to call Bulk Mecca. Rainbow Grocery has awesome bulk aisles. You can get everything there, including: Beans, legumes and rice of all kinds. Pasta in different shapes and varieties—semolina, corn, gluten-free, whole wheat, with eggs, without eggs. Nuts […]