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The first time I bought spinach in a bag, I hesitated. I turned it over and asked myself how long it could possibly last, sealed in plastic like a seventh-grade science experiment. "Pre-washed," it said. "Ready to eat." I was appalled. No food exposed to human hands and machines and eaten raw is "ready to eat."
But I ignored my misgivings about the distance the spinach traveled, the resources required to encapsulate it in plastic and what each of those individual leaves had touched on their long and unknown trek to my grocery store. I was looking for fast and nutritious meals to pull together in our house, where supper comes late and is often at the whim of the day's news. I would wash it anyway, I thought, satisfied with myself. Into the cart it went.See the full content of this document
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Where Does Your Food Come From?
It turns out that spinach does better than many vegetables sealed in plastic. A bag keeps easily in the bottom of the fridge until we finish it. During the past couple years, my husband learned to prefer spinach to the only other...
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