Convenience and zero waste or plastic-free do not always go hand in hand. Today, in particular, I want to talk about pizza. Of course, I know you can make pizza, but that is just not CONVENIENT, and sometimes you just feel lazy and want some quality junk food.
Our favourite supermarket pizzas are the make-your-own ones in store at Asda. They are very tasty, you can choose the toppings you want, and they are reasonably priced for a treat, BUT they come plastic wrapped.
I had scoured our local supermarkets, both the fresh aisles and the frozen, for plastic-free pizza, but to no avail. And then I spotted my little-used cake carrier in the back of the cupboard, and a cunning plan formed in my mind.
We went to Asda, toting our cake carrier, and asked if they would put our pizzas in the box, without the plastic wrap. And guess, what? They did, quite happily. Hurrah – now we can have super tasty, plastic-free pizza! Of course, a large round cake tin would also do the job should you not have a cake carrier. Unfortunately we only have rectangular tins!
The pizzas were on cardboard circles, which didn’t look dirty, so I have put them in the recycling in the hope they don’t get booted out as contaminated, but next time, I might try asking for them without the cardboard, to go nearly zero waste (except for the sticker).
Pizza in a cake carrier!
We have only eaten them the same day so far, but I would have thought, given a large enough beeswax wrap, they could be frozen. Pizza-sized beeswax wrap anyone?!
Do you have any other zero- waste convenience food hacks? Please do comment below!
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