My Little Mind…

For six years, I took peanut butter and jam sandwiches to school for lunch. Not jelly, but jam.

There is a hierarchy where spreadable fruit is concerned. Far-and-away, it is preserves that best preserves the integrity of the fruit while managing to be spreadable as well. Next is jam. While not as fruitful as preserves, jam still retains a goodly portion of fruit. Jelly? Well, good as a last resort. Too jiggley and wiggly for my palate. Doesn’t spread well and barely resembles anything with any nutritional value.

My favourite flavour is grape…and grape does not come as a preserve.

Anyway, I ate my P and J sandwiches each and every day (sans a field trip) simply because it never occurred to me to ask for anything different.

And now, it seems, I was doing my part for the environment! How great is that?!?

I must admit that I’m not the greatest at living a green lifestyle. OK, that is a total distortion of the truth. I am TERRIBLE at living a green lifestyle. Sure, we recycle. And I’ve taken incredibly short showers since my two weeks at Camp Komaroff back in the summer of 1982. But come on…we own three cars (only two drivers!) and sometimes take two of them to the same destination. I consider it my God-given right (thanks Noah!) to eat animals.

And the transgressions go on and on…

But I do have friends who help keep me in line and one of them is the Ima. Check out what she has to say about this. You’ll be glad you did! [And if you’re really lucky…you might be a winner too!! Stylish and eco-conscious 🙂 ]