You win some, you lose some

It's everywhere.  New Orleans was a great time, but I still was bombarded with plastic.  Most of my problems are coming when I go out to eat.  I have been pretty good about asking for a drink with no straw, but there were times that the waitress still gave me a straw.  Some bars only sell drinks from plastic cups, which I didn't realize until she handed me my beer.  Needless to say, plastic is still kicking my butt.

I did find a sweet little store called lush.  Basically it is a little boutique with a ton of girl beauty products with a little wall for guy stuff.  I found some soap cut from a big brick, a deodorant bar made of all natural ingredients for smell and baking soda, even a shampoo bar that comes in a metal tin.

                                                            Shampoo

                                                          Soap

                                                                   Deodorant

Nicki and I have changed some habits with grocery shopping.  We bought some cinch up produce bags so we can buy our vegetables, beans, ect. in bulk and not have to worry about having it wrapped in a plastic container.  Now we just need to remember to bring it to the store each time, so we can buy everything we need at the store.  We are buying all of our juice in glass containers, and we don't use plastic bags for anything.   We have our own bags that we take to the store, and if we forget, we just carry it out in hand.

Luckily for us, our grocery coop has a lot of eco-friendly options, but there are a lot of things in the store that has been wrapped with plastic.  Some glass bottles have a plastic safety wrap over the cap.  Cookies, pasta, some rice, premixed ingredients...almost all come in a paper box, but inside its still wrapped with plastic.

All in all we have realized there is a big learning curve this month.  Each time we go somewhere and are surprised with plastic we try to remember to be more specific the next time.  I hope at the end of this week I can say we did better than last week.