Going Glass

I seem to have perfected the art of wasting time and spending money with the click of a mouse.  This morning my husband read an article in the NY Times that scared me into replacing our ancient plastic food storage containers with glass.

Nicholas Kristof wrote about the dangers of microwaving food in plastic containers or running those same containers through the dishwasher.  I haven’t done the former for a long time, nor have I heated food covered in plastic wrap in the microwave.  But I have continued to throw the dirty containers in the dishwasher.

So we went online and purchased 2 sets of glass containers: one by Pyrex and the other by Anchor Hocking.  They have BPA safe lids.  They are not cheap, but much cheaper than chemotherapy.

The question remains as to how much harm we have already inflicted on our poor bodies before these wake-up calls.  One never knows answers to questions like this.

And then there is the issue of Jake’s homemade dog food, which is conveniently packaged in serving size Ziplock bags.  Is he more likely to die of old dog age than cancer brought about from heating his food in a plastic bag for 50 seconds?  I’m sure no one has an answer to that question either.  But I have been shamed into dumping it out onto a plate since I can’t very well microwave it in a metal food bowl.  Maybe a glass food bowl would make a nice Hanukkah gift?