One of the joys of living plastic free is mooching round the local shops seeing what you can source. You might be suprised. Asian Supermarkets and Polish Delis are particularly good. Of course you may have to take your own OWN PACKAGING. Check out the plastic-free shopping kit here..
Supermarkets too - sometimes we have to shop there and they do have some plastic free and zero waste stuff. Read up about them here plus eating for a week, plastic-free, only from supermarkets a case study.
However It’s gets more tricky when you want dried pasta or rice.

Loose Food?

As the plastic movement grows more shops are selling naked food; stuff that that normally comes plastic packaged ie rice, pasta and salt. Heres a list of towns with shops selling loose food.

Buy Online

But loose food shops are still few and far between, not everyone has local shops and supermarkets love plastic packaging.

Don’t despair if there is nowhere near you selling rubbish free food, you might be interested in this option. It is possible to buy food online loose and plasticfree. You can even use your own cotton produce bags for some things.

Veg & Fruit Boxes

If you still can’t find them loose in the shops you might want to consider getting a veg box delivered. many schemes are plastic aware. Take a look here

Coffee

Coffee roasters pack their beans in compostable #plasticfree packaging and post out in cardboard boxes helpin you to enjoy your daily grind Read more here

Quinoa,Pulses & Beans

Hodmedods - do British Grown Beans, Grains & Pulses and Quinoa in mostly #plasticfree packaging available online @homedod Visit the website HERE.

Everything Else

Real Plastic Free is one such.
Heres some blurb from the website

Why shop with us
We don’t sell product packed in plastic We sell Real Foods brand packed in biodegradable cellulose bags
We will pack your order using only paper-based materials We are committed to reducing all waste
We partner with Real Foods who have been selling natural, organic wholefoods (packed in cellulose) in Edinburgh for over 40 years Real Foods brand is fully accredited by the Soil Association so you can buy our organic products with confidence
We only charge fair rates for postage & packing We really appreciate your custom and work hard to offer you the best prices we can on your plastic free products

Plasticfree Pantry

Plasticfree pantry is a UK based online shop sells pantry staples including
flour
herbs and spices
Nuts
Dried fruit
Pasta rice and grains
baking ingredients
beans and pulses
Drinks

All loose and plastic free. Well not completely loose. Duh. They have to packaging it somehow so they reuse paper bags, glass jars and compostable plastic.
They will also use your own clean and produce bags. Read more about produce bags here HERE

The onward packaging consists of cardboard boxes and shredded paper is used to protect the goods.
Packaging tape is heavy duty paper. If you want to try, you can buy some HERE
N.B. They reuse boxes so some might come with existing plastic tape.

Visit the website HERE.

GoodFayre

And then there is this company who will according to an message, also use your own produce bags if you ask. The following was taken from their website.

We can supply Bulk Wholefoods in plastic free packaging,
Order by Quantity to get the quantity you want.
Your grocieies will come wrapped in paper bags. Though the store
Prices are all per 100g
When ordering enter your quantity per 100g
eg: If you would like to order 100g enter 1 in the quantity field, If you would like to order 1KG enter 10 in the quantity field.

Packaging:

We reuse and recycle all our packing materials, so nothing is brought new and we are recycling materials that have been sent to us from suppliers. Where possible we’re happy to send your parcel plastic free, if you’d like this just let us know when you place your order and we’ll do our best

Visit the website HERE.

More Food

You can see the rest of our our food finds HERE

Buy other stuff On Line
These shops sell plastic free products and send them out in plasticless packages. Find them HERE

N.B.

lines changes, products get removed. For more information why not ask the Plastic Is Rubbish FB group for updates. They are a great source of tidbits, personal experience and the latest news. Why not join them and share the plastic free love x

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