I’m a foil girl.
Some of you are plastic wrap people… me I hardly ever use it. I have a roll that I think I had before my second child was born! hahaha… like 15 years ago?
But foil? That’s another story.
I seem to use it a lot more…. probably something about my mom using it or something, or maybe it’s just the shiny surface that appeals to my minah bird collectible sense. For whatever reason, I’m much more likely to reach for foil than plastic wrap.
Problem is… it’s not that green to be using a lot of foil. And it’s expensive and all that. So I got to thinking, tried to use very little, and well, that was not proving to work well. My habits were very ingrained in my cooking psyche.
And then I discovered the resturant supply store!!! And the HUGE box of precut thin foil sheets. 500 in a box for $7. And they last and last and last and last.
My kids don’t waste it, and I can still use my foil for this and that. It’s very convenient to just pop a sheet for say, the grill? Or to line a meatloaf pan so it comes out nice or wrap something for the freezer. And I got a great good old fashioned cookie sheet pan… not a coated one, but like an old restaurant pan. And that thing is wonderful. Cookies, bread, whatever you cook or bake on it, it’s great, easy to clean, etc. I used to get the cheapest coated cookie sheet and just let it get all scratched and nasty and would always put foil down before using it… dreadfully wasteful, but a necessity. Now I don’t have to, so that box of 500 sheets lasts and lasts and lasts!
I like when you can change a behavior, save money and resources AND still do what you’re used to… maybe not as much, but enough to keep your comfort level around you.
After all, you know, living simple, living green, all that, it’s not an all or nothing proposition. You can take baby steps and do better with your life. You can try a thing or two, and then add another change in a month or three. You can do things in small, easy and comfortable ways.
It’s much more likely to stick and become a great NEW habit that way.
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You really have a gift to be able to write that much about a box of tin foil. LOL Pat/Texas
We have a Smart FoodService Cash&Carry here. I love that place. That’s where I get my pre-cut foil. With rolled foil I always have the same problem, no matter what “quality” I get: Trying to tear it off with that funky serrated strip, I inevitably tear it off at an angle because it unrolls a bit as I tear it. That extra diagonal bit is wasted.
If you want to be really foil frugal, you can reuse your foil. We wash ours off (If it’s not too funky) and save them, then if something potentially stinky has to go in the trash, we wrap it with the used foil.
A crumpled up ball of foil also makes a great BBQ grill cleaner. Be sure to heat the grill first, pull the grill off and scrub it with the foil