{"id":1031,"date":"2025-06-20T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patinagle.com\/wp\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:25:16","slug":"treading-lightly-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patinagle.com\/wp\/treading-lightly-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Treading Lightly – Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Treading Lightly is a blog series on ways to lighten our carbon footprint.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>So in 2022, I wrote a Treading Lightly post about cheese<\/a>. Recently I realized that one of the photos in that post needs an update. It’s this one:<\/p>\n

Still grating my own cheese and loving it, but I no longer keep it in plastic. I am working to eliminate as much plastic as possible from my life. Single-use plastic for sure. I recycle as much packaging as possible and I prefer to buy products that aren’t packaged in plastic (or made from plastic).<\/p>\n

Regarding this obsolete photo, I have also been ditching things like my massive collection of Tupperware, some of which is pictured here. I did not do this lightly! I spent years and a ton of money building a Tupperware collection that served my every need. I was even a Tupperware sales person for a while. (That didn’t last long; not my scene.)<\/p>\n

Recently, with growing awareness about the health problems caused by microplastics<\/a>, I began to want to minimize my physical contact with plastics. Does Tupperware shed microplastics into the food it contains?<\/a> Does it shed them into the water that’s used to wash it? Into the food that’s (Ghu forbid) cooked in it?<\/a> I have my suspicions, and I’m definitely more comfortable storing my food in glass.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Enter my new collection of glass jars. It took a while to move everything out of the Tupperware or the original plastic packaging and into this array of canning jars. I love<\/em> them! I can see the contents better, and they have this lovely gleaming glass aesthetic going on. Shiny, kinda old-fashioned and homey.<\/p>\n

For stuff that I’d been keeping in its original plastic packaging, I discovered that not only could I see it better, the jars are more efficient for storage than the plastic bags. Case in point: brown sugar.<\/p>\n

Stored in the “resealable” plastic bag, my brown sugar would always dry out. Even if I cleaned all the sugar out of the seal, and then folded it down and clamped it shut with a binder clip, it dried out. I tried adding a little clay thing that you soak in water, no go. The sugar dried out. As soon as I put it in a glass jar, it stayed moist without any fuss.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Even better, it’s easier to get stuff out of the jars without spilling it than to get it out of plastic packages. That brown sugar, when I tried spooning it out of the plastic bag, would end up all over the counter. With the jar, I spoon it out and rarely lose a grain.<\/p>\n

That goes for the cheese, too. Here’s the updated photo:<\/p>\n

The cheese looks prettier in this glass! (The cheddar is white cheddar, btw.) The jars are easier to open and close. Measuring from them is a breeze. They fill the shelves more efficiently. And they cost a fraction of what Tupperware costs.<\/p>\n

I absolutely love keeping my staples in glass.<\/p>\n

Give it a try! At least for the brown sugar – you will love<\/em> that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Treading Lightly is a blog series on ways to lighten our carbon footprint. So in 2022, I wrote a Treading Lightly post about cheese. Recently I realized that one of the photos in that post needs an update. It’s this one: Still grating my own cheese and loving it, but\u2026<\/p>\n

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