Going Green

"One of my new year's resolutions was to be more environmentally friendly. Well this is one resolution I am having success working on.

I hate all the plastic shopping bags one accumulates on a typical shopping day. We always reuse or recycle the bags, and when we aren't being forgetful, we even use cloth bags. For the grocery shopping though, we have found the ultimate in environmentally friendly ways to carry groceries.

You know how, when you want just a few groceries, you grab one of those convenient baskets to carry around the store with you? Well the store where I shop, the Atlantic Superstore, has them for sale. We bought 3 of them and that turns out just to be the right number to hold a week's worth of groceries. Now when we shop, no more shopping bags. As an added bonus the baskets fit into the car much easier than piling bags in and there are less trips carring all the groceries into the house.