Plastic wrap & paper towels

               

These are two disposables that I think are overused in my kitchen. We used to use paper towels as napkins, but I have recently started using kitchen towels. I will probably buy some cloth napkins, but towels are working for now. One good reason to get some cloth napkins is that they are less bulky to take around in my bag. Another place I tend to use paper towels is to dry all the lettuces and other greens that we get from the CSA (and to absorb moisture during storage.) But we will soon get a salad spinner that will hopefully eliminate that need. There are many paper towel alternatives out there, like the Skoy cloth that I turned up today in a Google search.

As for plastic wrap, we tend to put this over leftovers on the same plate that we originally ate from. Intentions were good, thinking that it would be using a dish one more time before having to wash it. But I think it's incidental to wash another dish in the dishwasher, especially if we are loading it properly. So we will now be using our Pyrex and Tupperware to store leftovers and reserve the plastic wrap for times when it is needed more. Hopefully, we can avoid it altogether in the future once we run out this time.