The Turkey Lady at our local market laughed at me as I handed her my rubber Xeryp tray, but she piled the turkey on top of it anyway.
Our Turkey Lady has been a cheerful supporter of many of our off-the-wall requests. She supplies the giant turkey legs for our Pirate Dinner; she'll soon get us the turkey bacon for our April 15 Money Dinner; she sold us the hot dogs that starred in our Zoo Dinner as Octodogs. (Well, hexadogs, but still.) And, yes, she was the source of the 3 pounds of sliced turkey that N-son inadvertently gifted to the dog.
Our Turkey Lady has also been a witness and participant in my efforts to reduce the amount of trash we produce. Lately, I've asked if she can place our sandwich meats and cheeses in glass containers that I bring, instead of wrapping everything in plastic and paper. But the glass containers make it hard for her to weigh things, so she's weighed the meat or cheese on a plastic sheet and then used that to transfer the food (plus the plastic sheet) to our glass container.
But this past Saturday I brought her my rubber Xeryp tray, and she chuckled, but she obliged. The rubber tray is light enough that it doesn't throw off her scales.
The Xeryp tray comes with a handy glass dome that we can place over the meat and cheese we buy. When we place the containers in our fridge, these glass domes seal the sandwich fixings just as well as any of those zip-lock bags do (better, actually, because those bags are annoyingly hard for my family to seal correctly). The domes are see-through, so I can easily see how much food is left.
And bonus, if you turn the containers over*, then these glass domes hold messier fare; they're good for storing leftovers and can even go in the microwave. Isn't that clever?
* If you turn them over, then "Xyrep" becomes "pyrex". Get it? heh-heh.
[Note: The lids of pyrex containers are not actually rubber; they are, in fact, plastic. According to this 2008 news release, they are BPA free.]
Our Turkey Lady has been a cheerful supporter of many of our off-the-wall requests. She supplies the giant turkey legs for our Pirate Dinner; she'll soon get us the turkey bacon for our April 15 Money Dinner; she sold us the hot dogs that starred in our Zoo Dinner as Octodogs. (Well, hexadogs, but still.) And, yes, she was the source of the 3 pounds of sliced turkey that N-son inadvertently gifted to the dog.
Our Turkey Lady has also been a witness and participant in my efforts to reduce the amount of trash we produce. Lately, I've asked if she can place our sandwich meats and cheeses in glass containers that I bring, instead of wrapping everything in plastic and paper. But the glass containers make it hard for her to weigh things, so she's weighed the meat or cheese on a plastic sheet and then used that to transfer the food (plus the plastic sheet) to our glass container.
But this past Saturday I brought her my rubber Xeryp tray, and she chuckled, but she obliged. The rubber tray is light enough that it doesn't throw off her scales.
* If you turn them over, then "Xyrep" becomes "pyrex". Get it? heh-heh.
[Note: The lids of pyrex containers are not actually rubber; they are, in fact, plastic. According to this 2008 news release, they are BPA free.]
You silly! I have a whole lot of Xyrep at my house too.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's fun to use what we already have in creative ways. For this particular topsy-turvy solution, I was inspired in part, I think, by "The Frugal Girl": http://www.thefrugalgirl.com/2012/12/food-waste-friday-nadda-for-me-at-least-for-this-week/
DeleteYou are a GENIUS. I never thought to harness the power of upside-down.
ReplyDeleteDon't try it with soup! -MM
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