So, I have a confession.
Our family uses paper plates almost exclusively.
I don’t know how this has happened, especially since M. and I are fairly conscious of the environment, and the fact that five people eating their Totinos pizza off paper creates a lot of unneeded waste.
Believe me, I know. I take the trash out 4 times a day.
We’re also nature lovers, and not as white trash as this all seems. Where did we go wrong? How did we become the people who own two china cabinets full of place settings and still eat off of cardboard?
I blame Costco and their coupons for $3 off 6,000 paper plates.
And the fact that I hate to unload the dishwasher and with three kids times three meals a day, I would be loading and unloading constantly. Oh, and a friend who once gave me the best advice–pretend like these crazy years when the kids are so small are really just one long camping trip. And use paper plates. It makes everything more fun.”
So true. Serving my family taquitos for dinner makes me feel guilty. Taquitos on paper plates? It gives the whole meal a “this is fun and casual and, I admit, not really a dinner-dinner. After all, we’re eating off paper plates!” vibe.
I’m not sure if it makes it better or worse that we often re-use the same paper plates throughout the day. Probably worse since there’s sometimes morning banana juice on the plate they’re eating their chicken pot pie from.
I don’t know if it makes it better or worse than that that the chicken pot pie is often still in the little cardboard container so it’s not really touching the banana juice.
Yes, worse there too.
I think I’ll stop now and plant a tree to absolve myself of my ever-expanding carbon footprint.
