Tag: food packaging
Mr Green buys cheese without non-recyclable plastic packaging
What a headline – hardly worthy of the Guardian at this stage, and more of a mouthful than an gram of cheddar, but you know how it is; when you’re on a mission, small things please small minds. Mr Green and Little Miss Green are partial to a bit of mature cheddar. In fact, Mr […]
A little panic about our zero waste week
Being a bit of a control freak, I’m having a bit of a ‘to do’ about our zero waste week (1st week in September if you’ve just joined us). More specifically I’m thinking about those things that happen which are beyond our control. Am I having nightmares of some saboteur coming around at midnight and […]
How to reduce clingfilm / plastic wrap.
I miscalculated the amount of broccoli I bought this week and ended up doing an emergency dash to our local store. I ended up with the broccoli wrapped in about half a metre of clingfilm. As I was fighting with getting it off without shredding the stuff under my fingernails, I glanced up to where […]
Zero waste meals and cornstarch packaging
As our official ‘zero week’ challenge is only two short months away, I’ve declared today a Zero Waste Meals day. Breakfast was home made yogurt; yep I dusted off my new machine, quietly stepped aside my procrastination while it was still asleep and made yogurt. We had that with fresh raspberries, blackcurrants and apples. Delicious […]
Monday confessional
Forgive us readers, for we have sinned. Here’s our second confessional and what a biggie it is too. Last week, we tripped off to Devon for a few days of sunshine, sand dunes and salty air. We were self catering and were positioned a mile from a rather delicious Waitrose. Being supermarket snobs, we were […]
Making yogurt
Since beginning our zero waste challenge, we’ve been left with a bag of plastic each week to put out for the landfill. Everything else can be recycled or reused. I realised that around a third of that landfill waste over the past couple of weeks has been yogurt pots! We get through one large pot […]
Putting new habits into place (and failing)
Old habits die hard don’t they? I was tired, rushed and hassled when I placed my weekly Sainsbury’s order. I unpacked it today to realise I had bought three very non zero waste friendly products:
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