She tried to avoid plastic while grocery shopping for a week. Here's how it went

Nuts and dried fruit items at a grocery store. (Martha Bebinger/WBUR)

I didn't see the thin plastic thread running between one leaf on my pineapple and its tag when I put the pineapple in my shopping cart, when I checked out or when I unpacked groceries at home. It wasn't until I chopped off the top and tug on the tag that it hit me.

I'd broken the rules again.