Dried and ground can be bought

Loose

The Nut Shop Leeds Market HERE

If you cannot get to Leeds you can try
health food shops
Wholefood Market a supermarket chain
Weigh & Save shops a UK franchise

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.

Packaging

While these shops provide bags and they are almost always plastic ones. You will need to take your own plastic-free /reusable bags.

In Jars & Tins

Spices in tins

These guys use tins for their spices. Yes the tins are most likely plastic lined and I am sure there will be a plastic seal but it is much reduced. They also do mixes for curry so you dont have to buy hundreds of different products.

The Bart Ingredients Co. Ltd.,
Bristol,
England,
BS3 4AD.
Packed in: United Kingdom
Packaging Tin

You can buy them in Sainsbury’s.

Pepper Corns

I have yet to source and totally plastic-free, ready ground pepper so I have to buy peppercorns and grind it myself.

These can be bought  loose in Todmorden indoor market,  Todmorden. They do black, mixed and pink peppercorns.

If you  do go down this route you will need to get something to grind them in.

Many people like to use a pepper mill. There is are a huge range available in non plastic materials but I cannot really advise. I am way too impatient to use a peppermill especially for cooking so I smash the peppercorns to bits in a stone mortar and pestle. I suppose I could buy an electric grinder (definitely not plastic free), but I like smashing them to bits. You need quite a heavy one – stone is best.I got a marble mortar and pestle from the Asian Supermarket.

Check out this Pinterest page for inspiration

More

Want salt? You can get it here….

Sea salt

Can be bought from the Weigh & Save in Penzance and possibly at the other branches of this strange  store

Normal Salt

What do you call this – cooking salt? Budget and in a box from Lidles