ban the bix
crunchy munchy cornflakes, sweety wheaty bix, fast food breakfasts that look all innocent in their jolly cardboard boxes what could possibly go wrong.
Well those papery looking packets that contain the corn based delights are plastic coated and so have to be banned from my cupboards.
The only plastic free cereals I have been able to source are some types of porrige and muesli that come in boxes or paper bags.
Still thats good news for the bowels and the colesteral levels.
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November 9, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I could give up my breakfast cereal without too much bother, and have toast instead!
Have they always been packed like that do you know? xx
November 9, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Sainsbury’s own brand cereal boxes carry logos to indicate that inner bag is type 2 HDPE which can be recycled in the pastic bag recycling bins at their larger stores.
Not much good if you have forsworn plastic altogether but acceptable if you are resigned to using recyclable plastic.
It’s all rather silly as I can’t see any reason why the cereal cannot be poured straight into the outer cardboard box. It works well enough for certain brands of porridge oats and rice.
November 10, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Howdy Flight and gai – thanks for dropping by
We create far too much plastic rubbish and we are not nearly good enough at recycling it …so the info about Sainburies cornflakes is especially good. That they are using plastic that can be recycled and that they are labelling their plastic.
But I too cannot see the need for all this packaging – cardboard and plastic? I suppose the one is to stop the cornflakes being crushed the other to – what – keep them dry? But if the box got wet surely they couldnt sell them anyway…. my brain hurts.
AS to what they used before plastic – greaseproof paper bags maybe. Do they need to be kept airtight?
Take care xpam
February 22, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I don’t know where you all are located, but most stores in my area have “bulk foods” sections, where you can buy granola, cornflakes, etc in bulk. If you don’t want to use plastic bags, buy or make cotton or hemp bulk-food bags to make your purchase, then transfer into glass jars when you get home (to preserve freshness).
If you are thrifty, there are lots of great recipes for homemade granola – makes a good snack-food.
Waxed paper bags do pretty well to preserve freshness over the short-term, and can be composted afterwards.
February 23, 2009 at 10:47 am
Hi – we are over here in England where we dont have bulk buy stores… not as a general rule. There are a few weigh and save shops with bulk bins but none near me.
I do use my own produce bags for fruit and veg and would love to use them for rice and the like but alas. I even asked my healthfood shop who bag up their own stuff if I could bag my own and use my produce bags but they said no.
Believe me it would make giving up plastic a whole lot easier if I had that facility