How to: Bread Collection Bag
I talked about my Bread Collection Bag in my Our First Family Footprint Steps post among others. I made it myself from an old cotton sheet (you know how the fitted sheet always wears out before the top sheet?) and…
Quicker than Take Away: Pantry Meals in a Hurry
“Quicker than Take Away” might be overstating it – then again, maybe not. When life takes over, it’s dinner time and cooking a meal seems beyond what is possible, most of us are spoilt for take away options – and…
Is ‘plastic free’ the right goal?
As we approach the end of Plastic Free July for 2019, I’m looking back on a month of noticing all the plastics in our life and wondering if it is possible to be ‘plastic free’. Indeed, is that even what…
12 Single Use Plastic Items to Eliminate
If there is one thing that tops my waste elimination hit list, it is single use plastic. It is everywhere but a lot of these items have an easy, sustainable substitute. In this post I look at some common single…
Plastic-Free Food Storage Tips
Plastic-Free Food Storage takes some thinking outside of our 21st century box but it can be done and this post shares some of my tips. There is no denying that plastic does a very good job of keeping fresh food,…
Use what you have
The idea to ‘use what you have’ is not new but it is difficult to break free from the consumerist principles of our society even when we are trying to live a lower waste life. Even those with anti-consumerist values…
Recycling is not the answer
Recycling makes sense, doesn’t it? Reusing resources means Earth’s finite resources last longer, plus energy, fuel and water are saved in the harvesting of new resources. And making products from recycled materials uses less energy than making them from new…
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…
