We are adjusting to life in Fort St John, where we have had to learn all over again where we can get various products. We can get a wide variety of bulk items at PriceSmart, including powdered milks and cheeses and even, if we were so inclined, cookie dough mix. We can get spices and candies and pastas and probably over a hundred other things from this fantastic bulk section.
Thank goodness also for Safeway. We've been buying our meat from behind the meat counter, and they fill our own containers with the things we want. Sensitive to our project stipulations and goals, they let us know when something comes prepackaged only, versus when they cut the meat themselves. We also get buns (and sometimes donuts!) from their bakery, where we can pick out any number of buns and put them in the paper bags provided. These paper bags serve double for us in that they later become our garbage bags.
Speaking of garbage, most of our garbage currently is kitchen scraps and kitty litter. We usually have 2 small paper bags full of garbage per week, and if we had a compost, we'd have far less garbage than that even. This is great progress, because the whole point of this exercise has been to learn to live as less wasteful people.
-Sheri
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