My name is Mary Kat and I’m 17. I try to live a plastic-free life for environmental reasons and health reasons (see my page on why disposable plastic is bad if you don’t know anything about plastic). I have a passion for food and a passion for cooking and baking. At the beginning, the hardest part of living plastic-free was cooking. I thought that I would have to give up all my favorite foods and eat only cabbage and eggs for the rest of my life, but it turned out that I was very wrong. I’ve been able to make delicious plastic-free versions of almost all of my favorite foods, even stuff like goldfish and graham crackers.

I have a passion for real food too. I try to eat local organic food as much as I can. For the most part, I eat local dairy, eggs (including local duck eggs!), meat, vegetables and fruits. Farmer’s markets are one of my favorite places to shop. Farmer’s markets rarely have plastic packaging on their produce, and they never have plastic stickers. The food is very fresh, and buying from local farmers helps fight back against the corporate food giants trying to take control of our food supply. If you don’t know about corporate food, I recommend watching Food Inc. and The Future of Food. I also recommend Michael Pollan’s books, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food.

I started my blog to share plastic-free, real food recipes with you. I hope you enjoy them

Exceptions to my plastic-free kitchen rule:

1. I buy milk and cream in returnable glass bottles, but they have plastic caps and rings. I’m saving all the lids and eventually I’ll figure out what to do with them.
2. Some of my ingredients that I bought a long time ago (like spices) are in plastic bottles. I’m going to use these up and then buy plastic-free versions.
3. Some of my tools are plastic, like my Cuisinart food processor. In older posts you’ll notice that I use a yellow plastic bowl a lot, but I bought some metal bowls since then. I still have the yellow bowl, but I use it for compost now.
4. I buy some things in glass jars like tahini and brown rice syrup. These things have plastic seals and sometimes plastic lids. I try to make as many things as I can from scratch to avoid this, but sometimes I still buy things with plastic seals or lids. I save many of the jars and bottles I buy and refill them with other things.

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