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My tub runneth over.

We've had a couple of items fall out of the tub, and we've had to do some balancing to get everything to stay in.

I personally added only two items to the tub today, mostly because I had leftovers for lunch and made ratatouille with pasta for dinner. The items I contributed were the pasta bag and the plastic bag inside the pasta box. Just shows how much packaging you eliminate simply by cooking from scratch. The ratatouille was all fresh vegetables, tomatoes, garlic, onions, parsley, basil and Vermouth. I made the sauce the evening before which resulted in a little plastic box that had held the fresh basil leaves and a plastic produce bag that held the parsley.

Now, that produce bag I had been used numerous times. As long as they're not wet, broken or gross, I save produce bags to reuses as many times as possible -- something my husband hates! Additionally, I avoid produce bags as much as possible. I don't use them for onions and garlic, ginger, lemons and limes, potatoes, grapefruit, oranges, pineapple or other items that are totally dry and from which I'll be removing the skin/peel. That simple strategy makes a significant dent in food packaging. 

We have only one day left. It has truly become a habit to put the food packaging in the tub. Part of me will miss it.