Cutting plastic and living compostably
Lidles is a chain of budget supermarkets. It offers some plastic free surprises. (Click the links to see a review and other options). Take your own bags Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (German pronunciation: [ˈliːdl̩]; UK: /ˈlɪdəl/ LID-əl), formerly Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand KG, is a German global discount supermarket chain, based in Neckarsulm, Germany,[1] that operates…
Easter Sunday falls on April 9, 2023 so time to start planning. Absolutely disappointed that one of my favourites the M&S Cheese Eggs, with Barber’s Farmhouse Cheddar as whites and a vintage 18-month matured Red Leicester yolk hand-dipped in a duck egg blue wax ‘shell’, does not appear to be the stores. please correct me if I…
And let me say right now I don’t like supermarkets. They are killing off the local shops and take money out of the community. But for many people they are the only option. So how to make your experience as ethical as possible? But before you enter those hellish portals please do consider shopping at…
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Flowers and chocolates are a traditional choice for such days and always welcome. Especially when you choose a few plastic free, more eco options. Sweets Sweets or chocolate in a paper bag Home made truffles Flowers The greener way to give flowers. Gifts What mum doesn’t love a garden? Or Monty Don? Or Waitrose? Then check…
Start the day with black tea with or without powdered milk – which we continue to drink throughout. Zerowaste breakfast porridge coffee Chocolate beans Lunch van soup – anything that is looking a bit sad and needs eating up thickened with lentils and bulked up with potatoes. Dinner Finally got to use my cauliflower. With…
Quakers Oats and Scots Porridge come in cardboard boxes and are plastic free. Some of the expensive organic oats come in cardboard boxes but I have never tried them. You can get them in a paper bag from Lidles very cheaply indeed. They are a bit woody but edible. You can buy them loose from Whole Foods…
Last month (July) we took part in plastic free July (pretty much as it sounds) . We are did it in a van. This is what went into our landfill bin to date. We have nothing in our recycle bin. All other rubbish has been compostable. Camping weekend with mates Beers in glass bottles with metal caps that are plastic lined. I don’t…
Rice is back on the menu. We used to buy our rice loose at Khadims but they stopped doing that. For a while rice was a plastic packed essential we refused to give up. You can see the plastic food we eat for more on this. But now…. White Rice We found this in Lidles. Rice…
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
I love that people are becoming plastic problem aware and taking responsibility for their own huge pile of plastic waste. And then, even more super fabbytastic, they blog about it! When you first decide to go plastic free it can be overwhelming. It seems that everything comes plastic packaged from soap to shampoo to moisturizer…
The A to Z index is constantly updated so some links may be dicky as stuff is moved or even deleted. Other products will not yet included. If you can’t find what you want, try…. products organised by category. Search – natch! latest finds stuff not yet filed Plastic Free Products a fine choice ltd. Aberystwyth with love…. Advent…