I was dying for some juice, after a day in the cubicle breathing in god-knows what, so I had to buy some carrots. 

I began the adventure at Vitamin Cottage on Wadsworth and 72nd in Arvada, Colorado - a sprawling hell hole more or less. It was actually pretty easy. I just got some produce - baby potatoes, radishes, carrots, baby bok choy, cantelope, apples, and some parsley. Vitamin Cottage sells their bulk items in pre-packaged heavy duty plastic bags, so i couldn't get any bulk - big juicy organic raisins were calling me - but no go. 

I got to the register and thought it would be cool to get a picture of the cashier scanning my free-breathing food, both of them, together, open to the elements as nature intended. I told her I was doing this 30-day blog and asked if she would mind. After a moment, she decided she had to call a supervisor, who also had to call a supervisor. I finally go the go-ahead but wasn't allowed to capture the vitamin cottage logo, which lives on the smocks at chest level. See picture above. I did get some genuine Vitamin Cottage Cashier hands in the picture though. 

I never got around to the juice, but when I got home, I had a few spoonfuls of leftover room-temperature sticky rice and salty beans that I had made the night before to hold me over until I could make dinner. Then I washed the lettuce, spun it and put the salad in the spinner into the fridge for easy access throughout the week. I also washed the radishes, ate one, and put in bowl in the fridge.

I decided to make pasta from unbleached organic white flour, crushed green pepper corns, an egg, salt and some water. I threw the rest of the ingredients into a pot to simmer and dinner was served! I cooked the sausage and veggies in water since I haven't dealt yet with non-packaged oils. I did have some bacon fat in a jar in the fridge but decided against it for this time.

At first I thought I'd box up all the packaged food in the kitchen and set it aside during this 3o-day experiment. Then I decided to try to just eat it all first. 

I don't know how so much packaged food accumulates. And of course, it's the stuff I don't really want to eat that's left now. Was I enticed by the packaging? Why DID I buy this stuff? With my head already daydreaming about 30-days without packaged food, the last thing I want to do, is eat all of this. 

Here are some pictures of what remains. I can't help but think I will be relieved when all this food is out of here! It's been cluttering my shelves forever and now it's  time to purge. 

Ok, I'll admit, the chocolate chips melted on soft (if old) white corn tortillas was actually pretty delicious.