Reporter mbebinger tried shopping for groceries without touching plastic for one week. It was HARD. 'I'm reasonably plastic-aware but I got my butt kicked. Quick takeaway: lots of boring meals, 5 violations — and I cheated, twice.”
My budget was $115.00 . On a Saturday afternoon, I pulled into the parking lot of my local chain grocery store feeling reasonably plastic-aware, not ready for the butt-kicking I was about to get.I started in the produce section, where I typically grab a plastic bag of organic baby carrots. They’re off limits, as is pretty much every vegetable in the organic section. I found some beautifully bunched carrots among the non-organic produce. Then I saw the plastic tags hanging off their rubber bands.
I don’t eat meat. But I headed to the meat counter to shop for one of my sons. Everything prepackaged was in plastic, but the man behind the glass kindly agreed to wrap two hamburger patties and some chicken, separately, in butcher paper. Together they were $21.62. I can live without salsa and juice for a week. But I certainly did not volunteer to go a week without chocolate. I spent a lot of time in the candy aisle before finding some bars wrapped in foil, packaged in a box.
While I’m out of money, I might want to do this again, so I had some questions for general manager Greg Saidnawey. Pemberton Farms is known as a zero-waste shopping destination, but there are still many things I couldn’t buy here plastic-free. There was no dairy, juice, peanut butter or tahini options without plastic.
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