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Eating non packaged food for a week - Is it possible?

9/30/2013

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I went to make my cup of tea this morning then I realised that my milk was wrapped in plastic. Buggar.

Things that are good in my house to eat: Apples, tea bags, bananas, carrots.

Things that are bad in my house to eat: Everything else.

My cupboards need a major environmental overhaul. Stat.

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Eating non packaged food for a week - Is it possible? Day One

9/29/2013

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I'm screwed. I just realised I can't brush my teeth. Does brushing my teeth count as eating? I suppose it is consuming. I need to make my own toothpaste with baking soda or something. And what about washing and conditioning my hair? I can wash with my ecostore soap because that comes in a cardboard package that I can recycle but all my shampoo and conditioner is in plastic bottles. I'm trying not to use plastic so should I be stretching this to my ablutions as well? This task may be harder than I thought. May the force be with me.

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Eating non packaged food for a week - Is it possible?

9/29/2013

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I saw this clip of the Pacific Ocean Garbage dump and it changed my life. I am embarking on an adventure. Can I eat non packaged food for a whole week - particularly avoiding plastics? After my latest perusal through the supermarket, I think it is going to be f*%king hard.

The rule:
If I recycle the packaging, I can eat it or drink it.

Some tips for myself:

1. Buy bread from my local bakery
2. Take my own coffee cup with me when buying my coffee.
3. Think of the environment when I get annoyed.
4. Force my husband and daughter to do this with me so that I am not alone.
5. Bake.
6. Go to market, to market to buy a fat pig. Home again, home again jiggety jig.
7. Be positive.
8. Plan ahead.
9. Don't cheat.

Image: designmymeals.com

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Put it down.

9/27/2013

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Miley's Wrecking Ball

9/24/2013

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Fabulous Fashionistas

9/22/2013

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Lady Luck - Conversations with Creative New Zealand Women

9/21/2013

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Release date: 16th November, 2013

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The Score by Adrienne Jansen

9/20/2013

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Stereohype by Tylee Hudson

9/19/2013

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Self doubt creeps even now when I’m writing this, it’s like this little voice in the back of my head yelling:

‘YOU’RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH!’

I don’t know about any of you but most of the time I don’t know where to find the off switch for that little yelling voice. It’s been quoted time and time again in many a creative writing class that:

“I like totes get that” shrieked the pixie-androgynous-Agyness Deyn look-a-like one afternoon as our creative writing teacher was preaching the perils of ego and pearls of higher-self. Of which we were then instructed to construct a Fast-Write — a numbing non-stop 5 minutes of writing down of anything.Which generally in my case are scenarios that seek to make connections between tangents and tangerines and sentences-formed-with-dashes-between-the-words, but mostly just serpentine scribblings crafted from arduous anxiety.

An excerpt from my creative writing book

Fast-Writes, unlike drafts and re-writes are great because you don’t have time to think about how shit you’re work is, or how you don’t give a shit about grammar, or how you can only hope that the pixie-androgynous-Agyness Deyn look-a-like sitting straight opposite you in the workshop’s semi-circle will flash you a chic apprehensive look of acceptance when you have to actually stand up and say that ambiguous adroit shit out loud.

Eating non packaged food for a week - Is it possible?

Eating non packaged food for a week - Is it possible? Day One

Eating non packaged food for a week - Is it possible?

Put it down.

Miley's Wrecking Ball

Fabulous Fashionistas

Lady Luck - Conversations with Creative New Zealand Women

The Score by Adrienne Jansen

Stereohype by Tylee Hudson

Blazed - Drug Driving in Aotearoa

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