Paper Foods

Does your family have foods that just feel like they should be eaten on paper? We do. Pizza is one of them. We don't eat out as much as we did when we were in the city - mainly because our choices here in a small town are limited, - but we usually do order a couple of pizzas a month - and it just feels as though it should be eaten on a paper plate.
My husband has always been a big user of paper in the kitchen. - especially since I instituted the "I cook, you clean" rule. But it just isn't the use of paper plates and bowls, he's always used paper towels for everything, including drying off dishes. He always told me he didn't like the little fuzzies left by cotton kitchen towels.
When we built our cabin, we brought some extra staples from the house in the city, but most of it was given as gifts. Among these gifts were "no fuzz" dish towels. Sadly, I developed the habit of ripping off a paper towel and using it as well, but today's the day we consciously try to start to break old - and bad - habits in the kitchen.
My aunt has a rule at her house. Paper plates are not allowed and paper towels are rarely used. They do use paper napkins when it is just the two of them, but cloth ones if they have guests.


Today's Tip:

It shouldn't be so hard to break the paper towel and paper plate habit. Today, I'll start counting how many paper towels we use in a day. Tomorrow, I'll try to cut that by half or more. Since we buy paper towels in those huge "economy packs," it should start saving us some cash as well.