soft fruits – european stye

July 15, 2011 in Food & Drink, plastic free places, Travel

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Summer, a time for soft fruit strawberries raspberries and blackcurrants. Hurrah….but of course they all pre packed in plastic tubs. If you want them plastic free in England at least, you have to grow your own. We are lucky we do have an allotment and can grow our own.

Or you can go to the pick your own from the fruit farms scattered around Huddersfield and no doubt nuumerous other areas… though of course that means planning ahead.

So while you can get lastic free soft fruits making a Summer Pudding in our house.is no laughing matter.

Imagine my chagrin to find that I Berlin you can buy your soft fruit in biodegradable cardboard boxes …..grrr.

They are even more hard core in Poland and Helsinki. Here they pile the fruit up in heaps and shovel what you want into bags. Fair enough we had take our own biobags to avoid the horrid plastic curse but what wouldn’t I give to have that option in England….

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