Living for a week without plastic packaging  Going cold turkey
(unpackaged of course)  20 October 2008 14:20  [Source: ICB]
Plastic packaging is either a blessing or a curse, generally
depending on whether you can actually open the product without
suffering varying degrees of injury. Although I am well aware
that packaging is not just there to look pretty and does have
several purposes including prolonging a product's shelf life, do
we really need so much of it?  For my sins, I "volunteered" (or
was coerced, in truth) to try and live for a week without using
any food that is wrapped or packaged in plastic. To be honest, I
thought it would be quite easy, but that was until I started
thinking about everything I ate. Realization then dawned on me
that many personal favorites would be off the menu - prawns,
most meat, cheese, yogurt, pasta, to name but a few.  I dared
not put my family through the challenge, either - the look on my
husband and son's faces when I explained were enough to kill the
thought stone de