Shopping from Bulk Bin Stores
Shopping from bulk food or bulk bin stores is an excellent way to avoid a lot of single use plastic. It also has other advantages such as being able to buy just the quantity of food you need. If you…
Minimising Food Waste at Home
As a family wanting to reduce our carbon footprint, undoubtedly looking at ways to minimise our food waste is important. Food waste is not only costly for the household budget, the environmental impact of the production, transport, packaging and preparation…
Quick and Easy Menu Planning
I needed a quick and easy menu planning process to make menu planning a weekly habit, which I committed to do in Our First Family Footprint Steps. I’ve been refining my process over years and I’m at the point now…
Easy Swap: Shampoo and Conditioner Bars
Swapping plastic bottle shampoo and conditioner for solid bars is an easy swap I made as one of our First Family Footprint Steps. I resisted making this change initially and maybe you have too. In this post I discuss what…
Three Ways to Create a Footprint Action Plan
In thinking about how and where to start our Family Footprint Project, I felt the need to break the whole issue down a bit. There just seemed to be SO much to do, I was having trouble working out where…
