Kimberly

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 * Date || Lunch / Snacks || Containers Used || Garbage Produced || || Monday April 19 || bagel, cookies, water from the water fountian || two plastic ziploc containers || no garbage || || Tuesday April 20 || wrap in plastic container, juice in washable water, cookies, orange || one plastic container, water bottle, reusable plastic bag. || orange peel || || Wednesday April 21 || soup from tin can that can be recycled || no containers || no garbage || || Thursday April 22 || Pasta salad, water in water bottle, grapes || plastic container, reusable plastic bag || no garbage || || Friday April 23 || pasta salad, juice box apple || plastic container || juice box, aple core || || Saturday April 24 || roti (flatbread) with subji(cooked vegies) || no containers || no garbage || || Sunday April 25 || fish and fries || no containers || cardboard box that can be recycled ||=====

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 * Monday, April 19. 2010** I thought that doing this class challenge would be fairly, easy, but it really is kind of hard. You have to be organized to actually make an actual garbage free lunch. I figured that out this morning, when I had oranized my lunch, but not any snacks. It was pretty hard, since I was running late and I was rushing around for things to put in containers. You also have to be careful tha you dont do something stupid like taking chips, putting them in a re-usable container, and then throwing out the bag. That's sort of cheating by doing that. I listened to people talking about what they brought, and it was all fairly the same. A sandwich in a ontainer, some cookies, and either juice or some water in a washable water bottle. i have mostly not changed my habits by not using things that go in the garbage. I usually take items to school like that that anyway. It is a bit different to take everything in plastic containers. So far, so good. I do not know what we have saved so far, but robably a lot. Some of the other people in my class either forgot or didn't even try. **Tuesday, April 20. 2010** Today I almost forgot that i had to put my lunch in a reusable container. Before I left i had to hastily put my wrap in a plastic container. I am not really used to putting everything of mine in containers. It's kind of strange, but it feels good to be helping to not poduce any garbage. I am seeing a lot of people with containers and food that is not making a lot of garbage like fruit ( peels and cores). It seems like almost everyone is trying, but some people have baggies and wrapped food, like granola bars. **Wednesday, April 21. 2010** I was sick today. I didn't go to school and i stayed home. I had soup for lunch from a tin can that can be recycled. I had soup again for dinner. That's really all. i sort of forgot that i could'nt produce any garbage, but luckily, i didn't anyway. **Thursday, April 22. 2010** Yesterday my dad made pasta salad so we would'nt have to worry in the morning. I took it in a small, round plastic container. It wasn't hard to remember, because we always take pasta salad in containers. With that i took a water bottle that can be washed and reused. I also had some grapes in a little baggie that can also be washed and reused. I didn't know if other people were trying. I saw some people who didn't even try, who had thrown out plastic wrappers and plastic bags. Even i am almost forgetting that i need to take containers. Since i always take pasta salad in a continer that can be reused, i am not that worried about forgetting, and i am not really trying that hard. i know that i should be trying to do more, though.=====

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Today, I woke up late. Since i walk to school, and i never get a ride unless it is raining hard, i had to hury. I had leftover pasta salad in a plastic container that can be washed again, an apple, and a juice box. I should have taken more time the night before to try to put some food together that was in containers or reusable bags. I think that almost everyone is kind of more focused on other things than trying to think of ways to eat and produce less garbage. It's sort of hard to think of more than a few ways to take things in reusable containers, especailly when mostly everything from the grocery store is already in some sort of plastic wrapping.=====

Today my mom made food that our culture eats. It doesn't create alot of garbage, only things like the peels of vegetables and stuff. I really didn't thik of the garbage free lunch thing.

**Sunday, April 25. 2010**
Today i had fish from a cardboard box that was frozen and fries. The cardboard box can go in the recycling, so i don't really have to worry about that. this is the last day, and i am sort of relieved, because even though it was worth it to not make so much garbage, it was actually sort of hard. i wonder how every one else s doing, and if they care about how they are packing and eating their lunches. I think tht if I kept on doing this, it would become a habit and it would make a big difference.