October 29, 2008

  • Reusing plastic containers

    As part of my daily routine, I take a pre-natal vitamin with a glass of milk every morning. It had shocked me that I was paying $4.70 for a gallon of milk, since we've jumped on the organic train. I follow up with some other breakfast type sustenance.

    I leisurely make my way to work, and when I settle in, I pop a lovely little prune. I have about one a day. I was out of prunes, so I had to restock. At home, I have those Costco/BJ's sized bag of prunes. I'm not really keen on taking a 5 pound bag of prunes to work, so I put it into a little plastic container. Clean... or so I thought.

    Yummy. Apparently, the half pint container was formerly used to house something of my mother's concoction that included a lot of spice. So, now my prunes have a little kick to them, and some sort of indescribable taste... sorta of like a thai kitchen gone nuts. I guess I'll have to be mindful to bring it home and change the container.