I’ve been thinking of doing a n0-meat night, too. If you have any good recipes, I’d be interested. So far, we’ve only done soup & grilled-cheese sandwiches :)

We used to forget our cloth bags 75% of the time. Now, we almost never forget them. Some tips to quit forgetting:

1. when you go to the store, place them on the passenger seat before you ever leave.
2. once in the store, take the 2 minutes to leave the store, get the bags and come back.
3. ask the cashier to not bag anything, but to put it all back in the cart and then you’ll bag it once you get to your car.
4. as soon as groceries are put away, get those bags either on the handle of the front door so you’ll take them out next time you leave or take them out to the trunk now (this was huge for us, we’d always forget to even bring them back to the car)

My kids are both really into recycle and green.

Pamela – I have taken to stuffing my purse into the cloth bags as I get in the car so I won’t (or better not) forget them at the store. It STILL doesn’t always work. Grrr… I honestly think my son would do a better job at remembering! :) Love the worms, they particularly love to hear that they poop dirt. Boy giggles and hysteria always follows.

Corina – Loved your post, I know you saw my response too.

Damselfly – Cool idea!

Holly – I hear you on the # of bags. BUT I have found those cloth bags actually hold more than I thought. I can do a decent job with four – so far. And I also try not to bag things like milk which I can carry anyway. What kills me is when they plastic bag it and THEN put it into the cloth bag. Um, wha…???