started this post at 8:09pm on 8/9/09. heh. cool.

when packing my lunches, i've been trying to use more faux tupperware and fewer plastic bags. this is my one small contribution to the reduction of the overall trash count. but, i wonder if the reduction in trash is offset by the increase in water used to wash these pieces. thoughts?

i have one actual piece of actual tupperware - a sandwich container that i've had for probably 20 years. it is an amazing piece. there used to be at least 2, maybe 3, in the set, and now there's just one, but this one has hung in there like a champ for lo these many years. for most of it's life, it went to school with mini-me.

the lunch of mini-me was the exact same base items for probably 95% of her 12 years of regular schooling - baloney+cheese unsammich & pb+j sammich. [the unsammich is 2 baloneys + 1 amer cheese with miracle whip between, but no bread.] in addition to these 2 delicacies, there would be some chips, some fruit, some yogurt, something else -- but the basis was the sammich & the unsammich. the sammich & the unsammich could live together in the tupperware, both being also protected by plastic bags. it was a fine operation indeed.

these pictures show the kind of sammich containter i have - the old style. the new ones have a hinged top and are also bulkier. part of the beauty of this one is the slimline styling - it just doesn't take up unnecessary room. it can sort of squish the sammich, but some of us might like a squished sammich. you got a problem with that?