EATING ONLY LOCAL FOODS FOR A WEEK! Can you shop plastic-free in Japan? Ft. Okinawa Organic Harvest

Welcome to this long but entertaining video about trying to eat local foods for a week. While that might have been the easier part of this what I eat in a week challenge, the hard part was seeing if I can shop plastic-free in Japan and eat plastic-free in Japan. If you didn't know, Japan is the land of the plastic-obsessed and you can learn more about the wasteful things I hate about Japan here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh9t38W5qIU

We're going to be exploring how to be vegan in Japan and how to be zero waste in Japan. One of them is by utilizing imperfect foods services like I did! Here are some more helpful videos/blog posts on these topics:
Helpful Japanese phrases for being vegan in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIj1uLcVg7o
Japanese phrases for being zero waste in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYSHPepaopQ
A beginner's guide to Japanese: https://www.thesimpleenvironmentalist.com/post/a-beginner-s-guide-to-basic-japanese
Japanese phrases for tourists: https://www.thesimpleenvironmentalist.com/post/basic-japanese-phrases-every-traveler-should-know

Other videos mentioned:
What I eat in a day as a vegan/vegan stereotypes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSY5B322nk
How to live zero waste for free series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYnW_mxfCgU&list=PLGr_Ri6lQjNr4ApEKEShGz-Xl3QGKPnac
Picking Oranges in Okinawa, Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKOEUceI2Io

Timestamps:
00:00 - Getting my Okinawa Organic Harvest Box
6:26 - Okinawa Organic Harvest review and unboxing
10:32 - Meal prepping for the week
13:16 - Disaster strikes x3
16:15 - Orange picking in Okinawa/Farmer's market haul!
21:01 - Final thoughts on eating only locally grown food
24:41 - Bloopers

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