You Are What You Eat

A few months ago I encouraged you to Eat Less. I tried to link the over consumption of calories with the over consumption of food packaging. Well, a few days ago, Mountain Dad noted that I must have had some kind of eating binge for a couple of nights due the large quantity of food packages he found in the trash can. Yes, this is the same trash can that 'spoke' to me about the poor choices I made about food packaging.

It looks like we could indeed make better choices in how we how our food is wrapped, but Mountain Dad is right. I should should just Eat Less, and correspondingly Buy Less. Dad pointed out that there has to be over a hundred packages in our pantry that haven't been touched in a year and most likely will just be tossed out. He then listed how much needs to be done the more we (a veiled reference to 'me') eat. There are the obvious packages in the trash can, and the greater amount of water to wash the greater number of dishes. Then there are the napkins, and the electricity and natural gas used to cook and wash. The list was long.

So I'm now looking at just plain buying less at the store and look at the multiple benefits of consuming fewer calories. A compost pile would help, but I've already failed at that mostly due to our colder climate at this altitude. Let the bathroom scale be your guide to Green.