Sometimes a banana or an apple for a snack just won't cut it and a cake/biscuit is needed! One way to reduce single use plastic is to bake snacks yourself. Here are my top 5 recipes that are easy and fairly low in refined sugar. Spiced carrot and apple muffins This BBC Good Food recipe... Continue Reading →

We shop online with Tesco, we have done for many, many years. At the beginning of the year when we started trying to reduce the amount of single-use plastic we were using we reduced the amount of food we were buying from Tesco and shopped elsewhere for certain things (e.g. meat). I need the convenience... Continue Reading →

We tried a doorstep milk delivery. It did not work out. Here's the whole sorry story. A couple of years ago in a bid to start to reduce our plastic use I signed up for a doorstep milk delivery. The milk would be delivered in glass bottles. No more plastic - yay! This was supposed... Continue Reading →

When did oil start to be ubiquitously sold in plastic bottles? I'm not talking about vegetable or sunflower oil as I can't remember a time when that didn't come in plastic bottles but I'm talking about 'speciality' oils such as olive oil and rapeseed oil. Now I don't see these as 'speciality' oils as I... Continue Reading →

One of the first things I decided to tackle in our reduced plastic journey was potatoes. We eat a fair amount of potatoes and I thought that this would be an easy one to tackle. We get a fortnightly veg box delivered from Riverford and this usually contains potatoes (unless I change it to a... Continue Reading →

This blog will document our attempts, as a family, to reduce our plastic usage. I will write about our search for groceries and household items that are packaged without plastic and the alternative products that we have made at home. Prompted by a book I was given for Christmas called 'No More Plastic' by Martin... Continue Reading →