Green Living in the Kitchen.

bag found at WasteNotSaks, along with many other cute reusable sandwich and snack bags.

If you know me you'll know I am an advocate for recycling but there is so much more we can do for the environment in our everyday lives other than just get 5 cents for our cans and bottles and get rid of the annoyingly giant stack of newspapers. With this in mind, I was very inspired by this post by Kristina over at Lovely Morning. She very thoroughly goes through all of the areas in the kitchen that produce waste and offers a waste less alternative. As we're moving soon, and we'll have a brand new kitchen I thought it would be the perfect time to implement all of her wonderful ideas.

I've already purchased and begun using glass jars from Ikea to store our leftovers. Not only does it beat the plastic tupperware that you're constantly replacing because they're all different sizes and you lost the lid, but they make your leftovers look so much prettier and more appetizing. Soon I'll be ordering some paperless paper towels and I'm really excited for them as I absolutely loathe paper towels even though they are so useful. I've also been saving pieces of fabric to make my own napkins. I already have a set of 4 my sister gifted me a few years ago.

In addition to making my kitchen more environmentally friendly, I have goals to use more bulk foods such as beans in my cooking and to plan meals in advance so I'm not trying to figure out what to cook at the last minute since that usually ends in me ordering pizza.

You can find all kinds of great bags to store your fresh veggies in at Eco Bags.