A girl's gotta go out on the town now and again, but out is where things get tricky. Boulder is full of brew-pubs so finding an unpackaged beer is easy. If I'm going to have a beer, I'd like to temper it with some food. The problem is that anywhere I can go to have a beer seems to lack unpackaged/unprocessed food options. 

Assessing what restaurants are within the rules, and what food items at those restaurants are acceptable is not clear-cut. I figure if it's local food, it might have come to the restaurant in a box or crate and definitely was not wrapped in small disposable packages.  Once there, I look at the ingredients to see what kind of packaged food went into the dish. I figure that if I am willing to buy something at the grocery store that came to the store in a package but is sold not in a package, that same reasoning can be applied to what I choose to eat at restaurants. 

This evening at the Southern Sun, I just couldn't find anything on the menu to eat that I felt met the rules. When everyone else ordered food, I just ordered another beer. I retrospect, I think this was probably a bad idea. Lesson Learned: Eat before you go out or bring your own food.