Did you now you can get homegrown British beans, lentils (soon) and even Quinoa. Many of them organically grown….
Introducing Hodmedod’s
“We work with British farms to source a range of top quality ingredients and delicious foods. We’re particularly interested in searching out less well-known foods, like the fava bean – grown in Britain since the Iron Age but now almost forgotten – and black badger peas.
THE GREAT BRITISH BEANS PROJECT
We founded Hodmedod following the successful Great British Beans trial project to stimulate and assess demand for indigenous pulses.”
So far so fantastic but it gets better…
Plastic Free Packaging
“Many thanks for your enquiry.
Using recyclable packaging is something we feel very strongly about and we are avoiding plastic where we can. We are aiming for all plastic-free packaging.
So far all our 500g packs of dried pulses and grains are packed in compostable plant based cellophane.
At the moment we are still struggling to find a compostable sticker adhesive, but you can peel off the sticker and pop the rest in the compost.
most bulk bags are paper
our packaging puffs are compostable non-GM maize.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer this for our snack range which are packaged in impermeable packaging and resistant to break down from the oils within them and no biodegradable packaging we are aware of fulfils these stipulations.”
Heres the product range but do check the site as there may be more by now
Pulses & Beans
Yellow Peas split
Green Peas, Split
Fava Bean split and whole
Carlin / Yellow / Blue Peas,
Red Haricot Beans
Lentils coming soon
Quinoa
Wholegrain White Quinoa
Grains
Spelt,
Emmer,
Einkorn,
Naked Oats
Flaked & Puffed Grains
Quinoa Flakes,
Quinoa Puffs,
Naked Barley Flakes
Seeds
Camelina Seed
Buy from the Hodmedod’s website
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Other options for loose beans include
Wholefood Market a supermarket chain
Weigh & Save shops a UK franchise
And other loose food outlets as listed below
Loose Food A to Z
Find out if a shop near you sells bulk food loose. This is stuff that that normally comes plastic packaged ie rice, pasta and salt. And yes these shops do exist in the U.K. There’s just not many of them.
Heres alist of towns with shops selling loose food.
While these shops provide bags and they are almost always plastic ones. You will need to take your own plastic-free /reusable bags.
More Food
Check out the tasty food index to find lots of plastic-free GRUB yum yum!