In and earlier post, I started a weekly list of tips....easy and inexpensive tips to making your home more clean, organic, and environmentally friendly!
Tip #2) BPA-get rid of it! Back in the 80's and 90's, no one ever heard the terms "BPA free or free of Phalates." We drank from plastic bottles, sippy cups...we just didn't know better! In the last 10 years, BPA (also known as bisphenal A) has been listed as a "toxic substance" by the FDA. It has been proven to leech out of plastic, into the liquid, and therefore into the bloodstreams of people who drink from and eat off of it. It is highly estrogenic, and in high amounts can lead to the build up of these toxins in the body. The good news? BPA free plastic is now readily available, and inexpensive. Switch you babies and kids to bpa free bottles, sippys, water bottles, better yet, stainless steel. My little boy Wiley has a stainless water bottle with a non leaking spout he brings in the car, and loves it! Some of my favorite websites are Kleen Kanteen, and Sigg. I purged my kids lunch boxes of plastic baggies after a friend turned me onto to these!
http://www.easylunchboxes.com/
They are a bento style BPA free dishwasher safe tupperware that stack easily, are super cheap, and leave no plastic in the landfills! We also bought the insulated lunch pack that stacks three tupperware, so we can head to the park, or on the road, and they each have a snack. (It is also a great website for lunch ideas!) I also have recently found BPA plastic snack cups and bowls at Walmart. Like I said, it's everywhere! Our family had also been eating on some super cute melamine dinnerware for the last two years....seemed like a good idea, as the kids could drop it and bang it up, and we could carry it onto the patio without the fear of it breaking! Alas, after much research I decided it had to go, as ceramic and glass really is the most healthy way to go, and we cheaply replaced it all at once with a couple of these great sets from Home Essentials at Target: http://www.target.com/p/Room-Essentials-Glazed-Stoneware-16-pc-Dinnerware-Set-Vintage-Teal/-/A-11509079. I feel much better about it!
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