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> On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 Thomas > wrote:
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>>Go with paper plates. I do for all the light foods like pizza with gooey
>>cheese dripping off.
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> Purfect recommendation. Any pizzaria will serve a pie with paper
> plates. We use those cheapo paper plates often, purfect for
> sandwiches, pizza, hot dogs, any food that's not juicy and needs no
> knife... actually costs less than washing dishes even with a
> dishwasher. A carton of 1,000 paper plates at BJs costs about $9...
> and they get repurposed for feeding the cats.
>
> And using trees for paper pulp is no waste at all, there are millions
> of acres devoted to planting pulp trees, they grow fairly quickly and
> better to plant managed trees than to have barren land and unruly
> forests prone to fire.... there're huge pulp farms devoted entirely to
> trees for TP.
>
> The dishwasher is the biggest source of pollution. almost as bad as a
> clothes washer. Those new dishwasher compounds in plastic capsules
> are very big polluters.

Those cheap paper plates were common in NY. They're not here. They're hard
to find and when you do find them, they're not cheap. I use pop up foil
sheets for things like that, sometimes. They are good for food that you are
taking with you because you can wrap it around the food to keep it from
drying out.

We only have pizza maybe 3-5 times year. We don't eat hot dogs and I might
make a toasted sandwich for myself. None of us are big on cold sandwiches.
She does buy them premade occasionally. I have seen a few clam packs of them
in the fridge. Once in a while I will make hamburgers.

I tend to make stuff more like beans, rice, casseroles, salads and
soup/stew. That stuff keeps and reheats well.

I do have a dishwasher. I don't use it except to store large plastic items
that are rarely used.