Archive for November, 2008

Get 10% off any purchase with the Natural Store

I’m so excited about our latest offer as it is from one of my favourite online stores. This gorgeous company will solve all your luxury Christmas shopping problems for sure!
Rachel and Ismat own the Natural Store. The Natural Store helps you Buy Better and Consume More Consciously by providing high quality products that place a [...]


Weekly roundup twenty six

Weekly roundup twenty six

Welcome to a grey, dull Sunday roundup. The sun may be having a lie in today, but we’re up and about bringing you the latest news from myzerowaste


zero waste broccoli and spinach soup recipes

zero waste broccoli and spinach soup recipes

As promised, these are the soups I made last week from vegetables, cream and cheese that were about to walk out of the fridge themselves. I ended up with six pots of glorious brown stuff to stash away in the freezer for a ‘can’t be bothered to cook’ evening


Weekly weigh in twenty six

Weekly weigh in twenty six

We were doing so well with this week’s weigh in and then I went and had one of my ‘good ideas’. Actually, it was more of a ‘we really need to do this before the house is condemned’ type idea.
You see, this morning i walked into my kitchen annexe and was confronted with this:


Pay as you throw pilot scheme planned for UK

Pay as you throw pilot scheme planned for UK

Following a BBC story today about controversial pay-as-you-throw schemes suggested as a way for Britain to deal with its waste problem, Bob Walmsley from Radio Northampton dedicated an hour to discussing this important issue.
The question for his phone in this afternoon was “Is pay as you throw a load of rubbish?”
And what a fun and [...]