You want to know what I think? There is no safe "food grade" plastic. It shoudl be stricken from our kitchens. That is easier being said than done. We all have plastics in our houses. to be truly organic, we should get rid of the stuff. I am trying, but it is hard to do in this modern day. Think about it, plastics are just bad for us, yes they have a place in medicine, etc. but do we really need it around our food? I don't care what number it has on it, it's probably bad, and it's in my kitchen right now, what are we gonna do? Just shrug it off? Or are we gonna get real with it? We all need to ask ourselves these questions. My sister-in-law is a tupperware sales person, but is tupperware even safe? I don't know.
Nothing happens unless first we dream - Carl Sandburg
Posts: 367 | Location: North Central Alabama | Registered: September 22, 2007
Can you put a glass jar in the freezer?? or will it crack?
Robin
hours later, this is still bugging me!
Cool, I found something 'pretty' online, at The Container Store Vintage Glass Food Storage Created in the original 1932 mold, our Vintage Glass Food Storage pieces are made from heavy, tempered glass. They are dishwasher, freezer and refrigerator safe, and can be heated in the microwave or in the oven. (Don't heat on the stove top or in a broiler.) They're modular for convenient, space-efficient storage. The classic styling and the fluted motif make these suitable for serving at the table or on a buffet. The larger size features a grip handle on the lid. • To avoid damaging or breaking tempered glass, avoid rapid, extreme changes in temperature *** Some info about freezing/glassware: ...(LSU AgCenter website) Glass jars used for freezing should be made for the purpose. Regular glass jars may not withstand the extremes in temperature. Baking dishes can be used for freezing, heating and serving. Dishes may be covered with a heavy aluminum foil taped with freezer tape. Ice cube trays are good for freezing foods in small amounts. Freeze food until firm and then transfer to freezer bags.....or a freezer safe glass container! *** That's all I've found so far.
Robin
***************** down in Louisiana, where the fire ant mounds grow.
Posts: 553 | Location: zone 8, | Registered: February 12, 2003
I remember when I worked in a daycare center, and how all the staff freaked (not in front of the parent) when one of the parents brought their child in with a glass baby bottle.
Obviously glass isn't safe for infants and toddlers to handle, but if plastic isn't either, than what is, and do they make baby bottles and sippy cups out of it?
--J--
You should always have a plant B.
Posts: 2483 | Location: Zone 9b, the OC, California | Registered: March 20, 2004
Obviously glass isn't safe for infants and toddlers to handle, but if plastic isn't either, than what is, and do they make baby bottles and sippy cups out of it?
--J--
I suppose steel would be an OK material for kids to handle (I'm thinking sippy cups).
BTW, I never understood why parents leave an infant with a bottle in his/her hands. If bottlefeeding is a parent's only option, the parent can very well deal with a glass bottle.
And why going to the trouble of handling bottles, when nothing is better than breastfeeding anyway.
Posts: 419 | Location: Zone 5 Central US | Registered: November 09, 2007
I never had kids of my own, but in addition to the women who could have breast-fed but for whatever reason chose not to, I have known of at least a few who could not. Sometimes it is because of prescription medication that they must take--often they have taken a big risk and gone off of it long enough to be pregnant and must get back on it.
I sure would have hoped that I could have fed my baby (had I had one) the way nature intended; for one thing, I am much too lazy to clean all those bottles, mess with formula, heat it to the right temperature. But with older babies, toddlers, it is important for them to learn how to do things for themselves. If they don't have stainless steel sippy cups yet, then someone should invent them!
--J--
You should always have a plant B.
Posts: 2483 | Location: Zone 9b, the OC, California | Registered: March 20, 2004
As far as glass not being safe for infants, that is a bunch of advertising propoganda. The safety (of lack there of) is soley in the hands of the parents. plastics companies want us all to believe that ONLY their products are safe. Has anybody else here dropped a plastic milk jug and had it burst?
While, yes, glass will break whne dropped (sometimes)the ONLY time plastic is safer is when people are more careless with glass. Teach you children responsibility (and have patience with them) and you will not have nearly as many accidents with whatever packaging you use.
Bill Griffin
Even Ham Radio operators love organic food. Especially here in SW lower MI.
Posts: 1699 | Location: Edwardsburg, MI Zone 5/6 | Registered: December 08, 2004
I saw on the news a few days ago that wet nurses were in great demand in China. (A wet nurse is what they call a lactating woman who breastfeeds another woman's child.) One woman said she could make eight times what she could earn in a factory job.
--J--
You should always have a plant B.
Posts: 2483 | Location: Zone 9b, the OC, California | Registered: March 20, 2004
J, I saw that article too, and there were some interesting tidbits buried in it. For example that breast-feeding is on the decline in China, formula is heavily marketed. The article in the Wall St Journal said that the % of rural poor women who breast-feed declined from 62% in 2000 to 38% in 2005.
And because feeding other peoples' babies pays so much better than other jobs that women have, the article said that some wet nurses move into their employer's home. They are not allowed to bring their own babies, so they end up feeding their baby rice milk! While the employer's baby grows fat off their breast-milk.
I was fed rice milk as an infant. My mother didn't breast feed me, and I was allergic to everything else. Can't help but wonder if that's the root cause of my many health problems all my life. My own children are never sick. They were completely nursed as infants (no supplementation) and for a long time, too.
The Chinese are making some very poor public health decisions.
But with older babies, toddlers, it is important for them to learn how to do things for themselves. If they don't have stainless steel sippy cups yet, then someone should invent them!
