I forgo the bag long ago. I would like to make a comment about your cereal and why I or my husband cannot eat your cereal. I cannot eat any of your cereals because it HAS GRAINS, AND NOT ONE BUT 7. I have IBS and wheat causes a lot of problems. Secondly, both of us cannot eat your cereal because IT IS LOADED WITH SUGAR!. So, if you want to continue with your mission create a cereal that includes everybody. TAKE THE HYPE, and create just plain, no sugar added, no this or that added cereal from ancient grains. After all, you do call yourself KASHI or KASZA, or KASHA, or whichever way you want to spell it. But it is simply a buckwheat and it HAS NO SUGAR!

I gave up plastic bags long ago as they are not environmentally friendly. I remember when they were first introduced that Canada Safeway (where I worked) actually charged customers who wanted plastic bags. If only they’d kept this practise going our landfills wouldn’t be facing the crisis. Now if others would only catch on.

I’m onboard with the canvas bag for shopping. I could scream at myself when I forget to take them into the store with me – I keep several in my car. There was a good plastic bag story on NPR yesterday.
Ewamarie, I love the cerals and don’t find them too sweet which is usually my complaint with cerals, but like you, my son finds them too sweet, too much sugar. He won’t eat them.

Carrie, I always find myself in the store, at the checkout line without the canvas bags that are in my car. I think I am going to add a sticky note or some sort of reminder so that I never leave the car without them. The last trip I made to Ikea they were charging 5 cents per bag. I thought that was great and we walked out of the store without using any bags.

I just got back from Australia and both my wife and I noticed that many people were using canvas or reusable bags at the grocery store. It was my finding that people are especially more sensitive to environmental issues because it seems that Australia’s environment is even more fragile then our own here in the USA! I think using a cloth bag for shopping is a great initial step toward conservation so I’m going to give it a shot.

Another thing I really like to do is to skip the plastic bags for stuff like produce. If I don’t need the bag to preserve something crispy (like lettuce or green beans), I usually just put the produce into my cart all by itself. This sometimes annoys cashiers (because they have to pick up the individual items one-by-one and put them on the scale), but I like to avoid throwing away the extra plastic when I come home. Onions, tomatoes, nectarines, oranges, bananas—none of these really need to be put in the extra bags.

Everytime I see a store selling a cloth grocery bag and trust me they are everywhere, I buy one. They are always around 1.00 and once you collect enough which I have 10, I have enough to do all my shopping! I love it and it is another easy way to help the environment!

I went to a whole foods store a few weeks ago. It was my first time there and found shopping quite interesting. When I went to the cashier, the lady asked paper bag or plastic. She even asked if I brought my own cloth bag. I was stunned by the options as I’m never asked at a regular supermarket. I end up throwing away a lot of plastic bags due to holes or busted handles. I think I’ll GO GREEN by using cloth bags.

At one of our local grocery markets, they give you a 5-cent discount for bringing your own canvas bag! (During the winter, our local library has book-reading contests where, no matter if you’re the first or last, if you finish 12 books in three months (not hard for me) you get a free canvas bag…they’re the ones I use at the market! (My mother and I have actually persuaded several people to use paper bags instead of plastic if they don’t have their own bag…)

today, I got a Kashi reuseable shopping bag in the mail, I love it, and I’ve already used it too!!

I never go to the store without my Kashi canvas bag!

This is something that I really want to do…use canvas bags. I get my groceries in plastic bags then I re-use them at home or I will take them back to the store…they have a recycle bin by the entrance to return the plastic bags. I really do want to change to canvas bags, tho.