Mr MIH had to do the final stock up on lunch goods today for the week. His normal routine is to stock up on food for the week on Monday lunchtime at the Asda round the corner from his office. He went in with the homemade bread (note: although we made bread this time, we have had success before getting made-in-store sliced bread put into our own bags in Tesco), and the ham we pre-bought at the weekend as we know the Asda, does not have a deli. He tried red pepper as the vegetable matter. He was going to buy Mayonnaise (which he normally uses in lieu of butter too), but unfortunately the jar had an anti-tamper plastic film, so that was out. So slightly dry sandwiches unfortunately – he will work on some improvements. In good news, although the fruit offerings out of packaging comprised only bananas, apples and oranges, as Asda stocked only one type of loose apple, they didn’t need any stickers, so entirely plastic-free apples, unlike Waitrose on Day 1.
We also put in an order in to our local packaging-free store today: noodles, cashews, sultanas, and new deodorant for Mr MIH to try.
I won’t lie, the deodorant is pricey, so we are hoping it lasts a long time, and that if he doesn’t like it, it has a smell which is ok for me to use. I’ve got a Pitrok crystal stick deodorant, which I bought pre trying to cut down on waste, and in particular plastic, so it does come in a plastic container. It was pricey too, but I think judging by the rate at which it is going down it should last about 5 years, so it will be a saving in the long run, and will have saved on lots of packaging in the meantime from a new roll-one deodorant bought every couple of months.
Fingers crossed our order will also include washing up liquid – it sounds like we will be able to get it in our own container, so do not have to buy a new bottle.
Fails
None…we are on a roll!
Things we couldn’t buy
None.
Unsolicited items
None.
Any questions on what we are doing on certain things? I realise my posts leave out a lot of what we were already doing before this, particularly where we have bulk bought in previous months to don’t need to restock this month!
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