It's hard to avoid plastic while grocery shopping — even for a
By A Mystery Man Writer
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As part of WBUR’s new newsletter, “Cooked,” my challenge was to purchase a week’s worth of food and leave the store without any plastic in my bag. That means no jugs of juice, cellophane windows in chip bags, or even stickers on some produce.
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