Guilty pleasures

[ailbhe]

My worst one has to be baths.

Second to that is buying food, usually bagels, from mainstream supermarkets, especially Tesco, which I've finally caved in and done this month. Not a whole grocery shop, but bits and pieces.

And first-hand toys, especially ones with plastic in, especially if they don't offset the evil by being from Oxfam or UNICEF or similar.

I'm not really ashamed of any of it, but I do recognise it as being in direct opposition to my ideals, and I try to minimise it. Except the baths. I've had a bath (varying depths, but more than a shower) most days this past fortnight.

What do you do that you know you oughtn't?

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[ai731.livejournal.com]

Food from packets rather than real food. Not often, but there are a couple of "full of salt and fat and MSG" packet foods that unfortunately fall in my comfort food category, and so I buy and eat them more often than I should. Taras and I have a "once a month" rule for foods that we like but aren't good for us or for the environment - we're 'allowed' to have them once a month. I fail to stick to that regularly. He's made an exception for chips, and is allowed them once a week because he's tried to give them up many, many times and failed.

I also feel quite bad about how much imported beer (from England, Germany, The Netherlands, etc.) we buy, because it has to be shipped here using masses of fossil fuel, when we have perfectly good, local organic beer available. But we *like* Old Speckled Hen, and Fiddler's Elbow, etc., and I have the added excuse that I *miss* them...

[ailbhe]

I don't feel too bad about our packaging but I'm sure I will. It's all True Food goods, which helps. And even our recycling bin only needs to be emptied once every four weeks, so it can't be that much, really.

I just honestly don't feel bad about it. I probably "should" but I also eat bananas perfectly happily. And avocados.

I don't have any rules about unhealthy foods, because given what we eat normally we can probably afford the odd uranium cookie, honestly, but I do need to work out a better way of minimising my labour in re baking while still having the cakes, biscuits, bagels etc I feel I need available. I have a real cyclical need for carbs and chocolate.

I still want to get a smaller wheelie bin for our landfill bin but the council won't play ball. I guess the other simple option is for me to stick a label on it with the "last emptied" date and try to maximise that timespan...