Tag: zero waste week
Noooooooo! You get the vote – landfill or not?

I have to laugh at this. You remember earlier on I was packing up books for Amazon sales? Well, as you might have guessed I use old packaging. Old jiffy envelopes, cardboard and cardboard that has come into the house gets saved up and put to good use later on.
Nurse Green saves the landfill

We had another near miss this evening. Mr Green offered to prepare the potatoes ready for tomorrow’s lunch, so off he went to the kitchen. A couple of moments later he reappeared with blood dripping from his finger. That’s a bit of an elaborate stunt to get out of preparing the veg, don’t you think?
Baking, creating and lots of eggs

I’ve spent most of the morning in the kitchen. We had 12 eggs to use up and a few leftovers in the fridge that were starting to look at bit like compost fodder, so I rescued them and did a baking session.
Our zero waste weekend begins

Good morning lovely people; I hope you are well today. I’m enjoying having the house to myself before everyone else gets up. Even the cat has gone back to bed after waking me at silly o’clock. We’re looking forward to our zero waste weekend. As you know, I don’t normally write on Saturdays, but I’ll […]
Mr Green makes a zero waste poo-ding

For pudding today, Mr Green took to the kitchen. When I say he’s pretty s*** at cooking, you’ll know what I mean when I say when he came out of the kitchen brandishing this: Say what??!!
Welcome to day five of our zero waste week

I can’t believe we are on day five already. I have to admit, the first couple of days were a bit intense and by Wednesday I had had enough. Not of what we were doing, because as Mr green said yesterday, this is becoming a way of life for us. But it was the knowledge […]
Celebrating a winner and other ramblings

Well today was almost uneventful! No near misses with scary things in the post and nothing found its way into our home that needed creative thinking! We went to our farm shop this morning where everything is sold loose. We take back our own box and paper bags for refilling and we can buy exactly […]
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