I often buy large sizes when I buy frozen food because I figure it’s saves money and cuts down on trash. I’m always very careful to get things with as little packaging as possible, because it’s expensive and a pain to take trash to the transfer station at $2 a bag, and a 8 mile round trip drive on a Saturday morning.

Every week I try to include a significant portion of vegetables in my diet. When I’m home and when it’s off-season, I get a lot of frozen vegetables in large packages which provide a healthy treat but produce minimal waste when the packaging is discarded. I often buy two or three pounds frozen bags of peas, corn, blueberries, etc.

Getting a little bored with peas as my green vegetable of choice the other day I bought a massive 3 lb bag of lima beans. I like lima beans, and they’re really healthy, but god I don’t know how I will ever get through three pounds of lima beans. There not something I would necessarily want with every meal, although I’m sure eventually they will go.

It will be kind of like the three pound bag of frozen brussel sprouts that I bought in November or December in one year, and they were gone by April. So be it.