Tu Yuehua: I will go to the traditional market every two or three days. When I am busy, I may go to the market once a week. If I make a shopping list this time, I can make a plan in advance and know what packaging materials I want to bring. The cotton bag of embryo cloth and the cotton bag of net bag are very suitable for the traditional market procurement in Taiwan Province Province, which I call universal cotton bag. Usually two or four different sizes can be prepared to cope with all the plastic-free shopping of fruits and miscellaneous grains and vegetables in the market. Embryo bags can also be used to hold steamed bread for breakfast and snacks. After the vegetables are bought back, you can spray a little water directly on the cotton bag and put it in the refrigerator for preservation. Fruit can be packed in a net. ▆ Fresh-keeping boxes and egg boxes Use glass fresh-keeping boxes when buying a small amount of meat or seafood. Once I took a pot to the market and bought a whole chicken. Eggs I will try to buy eggs from the pasture now, and I will also raise chickens at home and pick up eggs every day. Egg boxes in the refrigerator at home can usually be taken out. You can take the egg box directly to the traditional store to buy eggs, or you can carefully wrap it in cotton cloth. I have also seen people make their own egg boxes out of mooncake cartons, and then they are all ingenious. ▆ Dry goods cans As for the traditional dry goods in the locker, I will take the empty containers at home directly to the market and buy the newly filled quantity directly. For example, if you go to the grocery store to buy shrimp, nuts and miscellaneous grains, first give the jar to the grocery store owner for weighing, and then ask them to fill the jar. You can put it in the refrigerator directly after you go home, which saves the trouble of handling plastic bags and changing cans, and also saves the time of throwing garbage. Or you can put dry goods or whole grains in embryo bags and put them back in glass bottles when you go home, which can reduce the burden in the shopping process. Shopping bags or rattan baskets, stainless steel pot fish, seafood and meat are troublesome to buy, but they are not insurmountable, because living in mountainous areas with inconvenient transportation, I often need to buy more meat at a time to store. I will consider the amount to be repurchased that day. If I don't buy much, I can use the universal big embryo cloth cotton bag and clean the cotton bag after I buy it. When there are many kinds and quantities of ingredients to be purchased, weaving baskets, rattan baskets and stainless steel pot are also my regular equipment. After buying, I can wash them with water and baking soda and dry them to keep them clean. If you are afraid that fish and seafood will not be preserved completely or the bags will be damaged, you can pack them in stainless steel lunch boxes, stainless steel pot or lunch boxes, and then put them in shopping bags or shopping carts. I used to be very clumsy at the beginning of the shopping cart. I brought a lot of heavy equipment to the market. Even if I go shopping by car, it is hard to avoid the inconvenience caused by the heavy load of ingredients in the market. Later, I prepared myself a shopping cart with wheels and a shopping cart with suitable wheels, which are necessary for shoppers every week. It is very practical to use it instead of shoulder shopping bags. I went to the usual shopping line of the traditional vegetable market and booked a familiar grocery store or meat stall to buy pork. I gave the stainless steel basin to my boss to dress up and came back later to get it. What I buy most often are pork belly, pig head and lard. When I go to a familiar chicken vendor, I also give the boss the stainless steel basin first, so that the boss has time to deal with the chicken I want to buy. Usually, half of the chicken is boned and half of it is chopped, all in the same container. When I get home, I will put them in a glass box and put them in the refrigerator for refrigeration or freezing. The dry goods store of the whole grain store buys the right amount of rice, whole grains and eggs. Buy semi-finished products such as tofu, noodles and sausages, and use fresh-keeping boxes for dried beans. Buy vegetables and fruits and put them in cotton bags or net bags. Go back to the chicken stall to get the processed chicken. Go to the grocery store or butcher shop to buy heavier pork. Generally speaking, I seldom buy seafood in traditional markets. If necessary, I will prepare a fresh-keeping box or stainless steel lunch box with a suitable size to hold fish, shrimp, clams and clams, but seafood is generally alive. It's best to leave air in the container to avoid being completely sealed, and because I can't keep ice, I usually come to the seafood stall at the last stop. This is the most labor-saving dynamic line after accumulating experience, and everyone can find similar models in their familiar markets, saving physical strength and time. The purchase of seafood and meat often makes people who have just joined the ranks of plastic products feel headache, which is not difficult in Taiwan Province Province, and the traditional market is the best plastic yard. I always buy meat and fresh fish in the traditional market. Usually I will prepare several pots, put a pot of meat, and repackage it according to my own needs when I get home. I often take the pot from the vendor, and when I see someone and the boss asking for a lot of plastic bags, I feel that my efforts are not enough and I need to work harder. For many novice chefs, the biggest challenge in the traditional market is the freshness of ingredients and the difficulty in identifying the parts of meat. These are not difficult problems to solve. The logo of the supermarket can help us to buy suitable parts easily. You can also buy meat from traditional meat stalls directly from your boss. Don't be afraid of unfamiliar ingredients. Ask the boss. Every boss will teach you to cook together, and within a month, you will be the invincible family kitchen. The same is true for buying fish. The boss must know how to cook the most delicious food besides telling you the name of the strange fish in the stall. Just ask them. Ask them a few more times, and there will definitely be more seafood in the private menu. Asking people who sell ingredients has always been one of my ways to improve my cooking. Usually they are very clear about their products and applications, which is the advantage that supermarkets don't have, and it is also one of the important reasons why I go to traditional markets. The highest state of zero garbage life is that there is no garbage in life at all, and direct and indirect garbage is avoided when consuming. So every time I buy it back in the early stage of plastic reduction, I will carefully check whether I have brought back invisible garbage. Is it that invisible packaging has crept into the home? The packaging culture in the market is becoming more and more superficial, and the things brought back by big bags and small bags often have only a little content, such as potato chips. This article is excerpted from "Don't make a living: Minimalist Life Practice of Zero Garbage at Home"/Tu Yuehua/Happy Culture