t h e m a y f i l e s is foremost a family blog, chronicling everyday life. Life including natural, healthy eating (with recipes thrown in at random), home educating (with ideas popping up sporadically), an attempt to homestead on .2 acres (with very meager yields), raising 3 of 4 children with a rare genetic disorder, and lots of highly personal family triumphs and failures. You may also find an eclectic array of musings on politics, exercise, sewing, emergency preparedness, backyard chickens, and religion. This blog isn't a campaign to glorify anyone or anything. Just simply a record.

6.04.2009

Microwave Free!

If you will remember back in January, our microwave went kaput. I decided to experiment for a week without it. My disillusionment began several years ago as I learned about the dangers of plastic in microwaves. I pitched every plastic food storage container I had and converted to glass pyrex. I was also disturbed my food was being altered on the molecular level. Doesn't just the name "microwave" creep you out a little if you really think about it?

Life was far easier than I imagined without it. For 6 months the only time we missed it was rice bags (I ended up buying a heating pad for each of my girls to go to sleep with in the winter. I unplug them as soon as they fall asleep) and burritos. Since then I have discovered we can make delicious burritos warmed in the oven in damp rag.

So finally the cabinetry workers came and built me this....

A nice decorative shelf. More storage is always a plus. Less radiation in the home is the biggest plus.

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