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We have been vegetarian for just over two weeks and all seems to be going well. We are eating lots of fruit, which makes me very happy :) My mother-in-law was here for a couple of days and we canned! We put up six jars of apple butter. Well, it is little more like apple jam because I don't have a food mill, but either way, it turned out tasty and my seals are good so far.
I have been storing cut vegetables in water on the counter and they are doing well for several days as long as the water is changed regularly. Eggs are doing well for at least a week. I bought hanging basket and moved the eggs there along with the other fruit that we had.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet unplugged the refrigerator. While my MIL was here, we had milk and other things in there for her. She left this morning, so we only have a couple of things left in there to get rid of. Hopefully by the end of the week.
To the question of milk, we bought some single serving, shelf stable boxes of organic milk. This is obviously not the best option. We will be making more waste this way, and as far as I know, the packaging is not recyclable. I must do more research on this topic. When it gets colder, we are thinking about keeping stuff in the cedar closet in the basement.
Worms are doing very well. There are lots of castings in the bin and they handled the mold bloom very well. Mold bloom. My fault. See, you have to put the bread *under* the other stuff. Under. Not on top. On top means that then whole top of the pile becomes fuzzy and that some of the worms will flee to the lid of the bin, while others will accidentally commit suicide by crawling out the holes in the bottom. Easy fix, though and it won't happen again.
I have been storing cut vegetables in water on the counter and they are doing well for several days as long as the water is changed regularly. Eggs are doing well for at least a week. I bought hanging basket and moved the eggs there along with the other fruit that we had.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet unplugged the refrigerator. While my MIL was here, we had milk and other things in there for her. She left this morning, so we only have a couple of things left in there to get rid of. Hopefully by the end of the week.
To the question of milk, we bought some single serving, shelf stable boxes of organic milk. This is obviously not the best option. We will be making more waste this way, and as far as I know, the packaging is not recyclable. I must do more research on this topic. When it gets colder, we are thinking about keeping stuff in the cedar closet in the basement.
Worms are doing very well. There are lots of castings in the bin and they handled the mold bloom very well. Mold bloom. My fault. See, you have to put the bread *under* the other stuff. Under. Not on top. On top means that then whole top of the pile becomes fuzzy and that some of the worms will flee to the lid of the bin, while others will accidentally commit suicide by crawling out the holes in the bottom. Easy fix, though and it won't happen again.