Super sleek. Stainless steel. Reusable. What’s not to love?! We have to admit, we’ve fallen pretty hard for the thermo-pot from black + blum. But how could any foodie resist the style and functionality of this stainless vacuum food flask? The thermo pot is topped off with a lid made of cork, comes with its own stainless steel spoon that magnetizes to the side, promises to keep your food hot for 5 hours, and comes with a 10 year guarantee!
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Herbs – plastic free home grown
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When travelling in far-flung places we will not buy water in plastic bottles. NO its just wrong. Instead we sterilize our own using a Steripen but when a bottle refill service is offered we will use that instead as we want to support and encourage such damn fine ventures.
We are plotting refill points up here on a google map called water refills
Meanwhile back in
Theres no need to buy bottled water in Cebu as far as I can tell. Everywhere you look there are large refillable water bottles, encased in wooden boxes, where you can refill your bottle for pesos. They look homemade to me – the boxes not the bottles I mean. Photos to follow.
Do join in -add details of your favourite water refill point in the comments box – xxx
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I do love our water bottles so much I thought I would write a post on them. Here they are.
Please before you scoff, yes we did have proper traveller canteens but we lost them. And the replacements we bought, and the ones after that. Which is bad news as it is very hard to find a good water bottle in SEAsia. So far we have only been able to buy children’s bottles, the kind that go into lunch boxes, from their equivalent of our “What A Pile Of Crap” shops. That is why I have a pink plastic Barbie bottle which leaks while Village Boy carries a power rangers metal bottle which sheds glittering flakes of metalic, and no doubt poisonous, paint on everything…but is at least beverage tight.
However, despite the above failings, it is the perfect combination of bottle types. Allow me to expand.
As you know we sterilise our own water using a Steripen. The steripen needs to be submerged in water so the neck of the bottle needs to be wide enough to allow this – Barbie bottle is just right for the job.
When buying juice from stalls instead of getting juice in a plastic cups We use Barbie bottle.
It is also good for making tea in though probably leaks BPA like a beeitch.
Barbie bottle is so good you might think why bother with transformers glitter bottle. Well the wider the neck the harder it is to drink from on bouncing buses. Far less likely to slobber with transformers.
Also the smaller the screw fitting, the less chances there are of leakage.
Transformers doubles as a hot water bottle on freezing farms.
Transformers is not made from plastic.
Both bottles take half a litre which is perfect for the Steripen which will do 1 or 1/2 a litre at a time.
half a litre of water each is as much as we need to carry the beauty of the Steripen is that we can always sterilise more when needed.
These bottles fit nicely into bags and don’t weigh too much.
However when Barbie bottle gets left behind this is the bottle I really want
Kanteen Reflect Steel Bottle: No Paint or Plastic, Bamboo, Laser Etched.
If you love your water bottle please do share why.
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English: Huddersfield Canal, Slaithwaite. looking towards Slaithwaite (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Heres a note from the Slaithwaite Grocers . Why not go and visit them, and the lovely hamlet – village – town -( delete as you feel appropriate) that is Slaithwaite….
Hi
I work at the Green Valley Grocer in Slaithwaite near Huddersfield. We sell fruit and veg loose and people can have no packaging or bag at all, or choose a brown paper bag from a range of sizes, we have a few carrier bags that people have donated to us that have already been used, just for if people insist on one! Also people cut down on waste buying from us as you can just buy as much as you need, a single onion (say) for 9p (say) and that’s fine with us. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Green-Valley-Grocer/114471055256506
and here is a link to their webpage
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Find more loose food outlets here – the loose foods list. Please note the scoop and save heading refers to a chain of shops so there will be more than one town listed there.
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No this isn’t the Simpsons cook book, just a quick note on an ingredients choice. Here is a quick round up on the fats and oils available to the plastic free cook.
N.B. As I have got more into cooking, I have found myself falling out with margarine – it is slithery, weird and synthetic. Since then I have found you can use vegetable oil in place of marge or butter. Great for vegans, better for the butt.
Sadly, despite my best efforts, there is still a plastic element to my cakes.. but you can reduce it to a minimum.
I use Stork for cooking when I can’t use oil. It comes wrapped in foil which is plastic lined. Its creates less plastic rubbish then the stuff from tubs but is obviously not plastic free. Go to margerine for more.
Vegetable oil (in my case at least), is not a plastic free option. If you are rich enough you can buy the vegetable oils in glass bottles. I am not, so my vegetable oil comes in plastic lined tins. Check out vegetable oils.
I suppose I could use butter which I can get paper wrapped, (I think), but I am already wide enough across the beam. Find butter here
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Yogurt comes in plastic pots and I of course refuse to use one use disposables. So the pots have to go,but who can live without yogurt? Not us, so I had to learn how to make my own.
I had heard of how you could make it in a flask but I just ended up with curds and whey and an evil smelling flask.
Then the husband AKA village boy remembered how they used to make it back in the village of his birth. His recipie involved a big pan of hot milk and lots of blankets. He ended up with curds and whey and evil smelling blankets.
So I bought me an Easy Yo Yogurt maker – - really easy -just mix the contents of the sachet with water – yes thats right – the plastic foil sachet that came in the plastic packed box. Didnt think it through. Not best pleased – it did make very good yogurt though. If only they sold the mix in a jar – or cardboard box. Ho hum back to the drawing board.
Finally got me an electric yogurt maker from Lakeland – mail order.
The yogurt is made in a plastic container -BPA free for those of you worried about leacning chemicals.
It works really well. So although it is a plastic product I feel it is worth it as it cuts our overallplastic consumption.
Please note, not all are yogurt making noddies – if you care to peruse the comments you will find out how to make yogurt using hot water and how to use the Easy Yo yogurt maker without purchasing more sachets.
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Biscuits sold loose on Huddersfield Market – paper bags supplied YAY!
I try not to be bitter I really do but sometimes I think the yanks have it easy with their bulk buy shops. Sounds like you can buy just about anything loose – you scoop it what you want into a bag and then pay for it. Obviously this makes living plastic free so much easier. Why dont we have these in Engand WHY??????
Still no point wingeing … heres a list of loose products I have been able to source down Huddersfield way. You have to take your own plastic free bags but you do get to make your own plastic free sweet mincemeat. Result
and of course bird seed
You can find lots more loose food outlets here the loose foods list
Please note the scoop and save heading refers to a chain of shops so there will be more than one town listed there.
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Unpackaged is a shop in London where you can buy your stuff loose – that’s with no packaging. You take your own containers and refill them as you want.
You can even get oil, in your own bottle, and mafia free wine from the barrel.
Here’s their mission statement
Welcome to Unpackaged- the better way for you to buy organic food and environmentally friendly products for you and your home.
We believe that a lot of packaging is unnecessary so we’ve removed it; just bring your own containers and reuse them each time you shop.
This means you can buy just the amount you want and save money by not wasting anything. And going packaging-free means less waste goes to landfill.
And here is a really good write-up here.
You bloody lucky, soft, Southern, big girls blouses …er ….sorry …forgot myself for a moment there
More Loose Foods
You can find more loose food outlets here the loose foods list
Please note the scoop and save heading refers to a chain of shops so there will be more than one town listed there.
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We like to drink sophisticated,cooldrinks and cocktails plastic free. Over the years we have sourced a wide range of useful products. Some of them (or similar) are available from Amazon – this shopping list may inspire you.
Find other kinds of plastic free straws right here.
You will also need a soda siphon /fizzy water machine….. but more on that later.
Yes this is an affiliate programme, but its the only way I could get a funky and inspirational list like this, and I am happy to recommend Amazon. We use them all the time, the service has always been good, even for returns, and the prices are reasonable. We also like their packaging policy. In our experience it has always ben compostable ( apart from some sticky tapes), though you might want to double-check.
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