Wargh, fruit and veg stickers, in particular three apple, two avocado, and one mango today. But plastic-free shops apart from that. Tesco for general veg (potatoes, carrots, courgette, pepper) which we can still get there out of packaging. Plus we are lucky that we still have a deli in Tesco 4 days a week, and we were able to pick up some barbeque meat there for this weekend and next. It is wrapped in paper, and although I washed it I’m not sure if it will still get pulled out of the recycling , so I’ll probably just pop it in our compost.
And our order from our local packaging-free shop was ready, so we picked that up – spaghetti, noodles, cashews, enough sultanas for a couple of months, washing up liquid, and Mr MIH’s new deodorant. Mr MIH reports that it worked well while he was working a very busy shift at our village music festival last night. It is very soft though, so we have popped it in the fridge so that it lasts more than a week!
Talking of the music festival, Mr MIH did have a pint in a plastic cup (although by the rules I made up, as he didn’t pay for it, it hasn’t broken the rule, but that wasn’t exactly the intention of that rule). Glass isn’t allowed for safety reasons I think. but he thought that some people did have their own cups, so we will have to come up with a solution for tonight. I’m not sure where the two-hundred-odd drinks he served to other people in plastic cups leaves us though!
Mr MIH also got to grips with the bread maker today, and turned out a very nice seedy wholemeal.
The highlight of the day though was definitely the start of the rhubarb gin making. Not sure this entirely comes under the category plastic-free (although it didn’t involve purchasing anything with plastic, but neither would have straight gin!), but, well, it is rhubarb gin, so here are some pics of the process so far…gin to be added today, then left for 4 weeks (although I’m assured it can taste good after 2 weeks!).
Fails
Fruit and veg stickers.
Update: we realised that the gin bottles had plastic stickers when we came to clean them up.
Things we couldn’t buy
None.
Unsolicited items
None.
Make It Happy 