Mutiny is also a great place to stock up on dry goods such as herbs, spices, rice, pasta and soup mix. Take your own container or bags to put it in, and pay by weight. I am keeping mine in a coffee jar. Dry soup mix is an excellent stand buy meal. No need to…
hand soap
Refilling a 1 litre bottle with Ecoleaf hand soap at Mutiny, the zero waste shop in Darlington. At home I refill my various soap bottles, and reuse them
vinegar toilet cleaner
Recently I have been trialling white vinegar as a toilet cleaner. The reason being that the only plastic free ready made toilet cleaner I could find was pricey and I wanted a cheaper alternative. Splosh sell a toilet cleaner concentrate that when diluted works out at £3 per litre. I have been buying Sarsons white…
feed the birds
Not quite tuppence a bag, but I enjoy bringing wild birds into my outdoor space. So topping up feeders, especially through the winter, is worth it I think. The only bird seed I could find was wrapped in clear, throw away plastic. That was until yesterday when I happened to be in Jollyes pet store…
more rubbish
Today my 240 litre compostable bin liners arrived. I intend to use them to line my wheelie bin in future. They are sold by Caddy Liners Direct, but I got mine off Amazon. They cost me £25.49 for 30 x 240 litre bags including postage. The website says the materials used are easily compostable and…
oven chips
Here’s how I make oven chips, no plastic wrapper involved. Take some new potatoes I don\’t have time to pre boil them or scrape them. Just wash them and slice long ways into 4’s Choose an oil or fat that has a high smoke point like rapeseed oil or Trex. Don’t use olive oil as…
coffee break through!
If you read one of my earlier posts you will know that we stopped using our Dolce Gusto coffee maker due to being unable to find any recyclable or compostable pods. By switching to percolating coffee we cut down hugely on our plastic waste, but fou d that the coffee is still sold in multi…
ice cream
We can start eating ice cream again! We discovered that Asda, Sainsbury’s, and Tesco sell own brand vanilla ice cream in blocks, packaged in recyclable card board. The ice cream cost £1.00 for a 478 g block. This us a definite easy and cost effective swap. We will do without the wafers though, which are…
tea break through!
Delighted to say I have at last found a plastic free tea brand. Tea pigs. The bags are made from corn starch. The packaging from NatureFlex which is made using wood pulp. Their packs of 15s and 50s have the “plastic free trust mark“. It’s incredible, the wrapping almost looks and feels plastic, but it’s…