Huddersfield – loose foods

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

basmati rice.

Biscuits

Black Currents

Cake Making Supplies

Candied peel

Cheese – Hard

cheese soft / cream cheese

chocloates

coffee

cream cheese

Dried fruit

Fish Cakes

Fish Cakes FROZEN

Frozen fish Cakes

Frozen Pain Au Chocolat – home bake

Frozen Pain Au Raisen - Home Bake

Frozen Roast veg – peppers to potatoes

Frozen Yorkshire Puds  Ready Made

Herbs

nuts

Pain Au Chocolat – home bake frozen

Pain Au Raisen - Home Bake

Peas

pitta bread

Raspberries

Red Currents

rice.

Roast veg – peppers to potatoes

Spices

Strawberrys

Sweets

Yorkshire Puds  Ready Made frozen

and of course bird seed

More Places, More Loose Foods

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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In the bin – basmati rice

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Here in lovely Huddersfield we  buy our rice loose from the Khadims the  Asian Supermarket on Blacker Road.  They sell it  from a big bin, we take our coton produce bags, we scoop up as much as we need and they weigh it at the counter at the counter, money exchanges hands we have plastic free rice. Smashing.

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Plastic-free, homemade mincies

Mince pie consisting of a sweet pastry case and a filling containing dried fruit. 70 mm in diameter (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

No more jars for me so what with Christmas coming  I need to make my own sweet mincemeat for my mince pies.

Thank the lord for Leeds Market and the Nut Shop where I bought all my ingredients.

Candied peel -  sold loose – take your own bags.

Raisons ditto.

Suet – vegetarian – cardboard box crinkly plastic bag – bad plastic in the bin.

All spice – bought loose Leeds market in paper bag.

Apples

Made up the mincemeat following Delia recipe - loosely – and put it in reusable clip top kilner jars with rubber seals.

It is yummy.

This lot of mincemeat resulted in one plastic sachet from the suet in the bin but it is plastic that cannot be recycled booo. The search goes on for plastic free suet.

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Luffas in the air

Nasty plastic scrubs are nasty but there are times when my big boy metal scourer is way too butch – I need Micheal’s luffa.

As the site says …..

In the Phillippines, people wash their dishes using a luffa instead of a plastic scourer. Luffas are durable, effective, and far better for the environment as they biodegrade when worn out.
Michael’s Original Luffa Scouring Pads are ethically and sustainably grown on Michael’s family farm in the Phillippines (luffas are plants grown on land).

Bought directly from the farm at a fair price, your purchase supports less privileged families and prevents environmental degradation.
Michael’s Luffas become flexible and supple in water and are durable and tough enough for all but the hardest baked on food (soak it first). They are gentle enough for cleaning non-stick surfaces, fruit and vegetables (and also your body).

Ways to Get  Luffard Up

Micheal’s natural scouring pad can be bought from Half Moon Oraganics in Huddersfield or on line here. Or you can buy yourself a luffa and cut it up. You can even grow your own.

While we are on the subject of washing up dont forget you can get your bottles of Ecover washing up liquid – and other ecover cleaning products refilled. Click  here for details.

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Bean me up

I love my morning coffee, can’t do with out my brew !

But Lavazzas wrapped in plastic so whats a girl to do?

Done got myself a bean grinder and buy my (fair trade) coffee beans from the superlative Coffevolution an independent coffee shop run by the owner, in the center of Huddersfield.

£ 15.00 for a 1 kg plastic bag or 7.50 for half a kg – take your own bag or 100g ready ground  in a paper looking bag – didn’t check the lining. For the plastic free person the 500g is of course the best option.

If you want to try before you buy they use the beans in their coffee sold in the café.

There are many other good reasons to go to the café. It is not a chain the ambience is great, you can get wi-fi ,  the paper wrapper for sugar appears to be  plastic free, they have wooden stirrers for the coffee, their biscuits and cakes are home-made and stored unwrapped  in jars and they have a great notice board. Smashing.

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sticker free coxes

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Sticker Free, Unwrapped, English Coxes can be had  from Huddersfield Queensgate Market – the fruit and veg store.

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The Flat Breads Of My Youth

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Last year I gave up plastic wrapped bread – which was pretty easy for English bread at least. However for middle eastern breads it’s a different story -pitta breads, lavoche and other types of flat bread are not to be bought in anything other than plastic wrappings. The husband hails from far off lands and often gets a yearning for the flat breads of his youth.

It felt a little unfair to deny him the pleasure of a properly wrapped kebab and so I supposed that a special dispensation would have to be made for foreign bread.

But no more thanks to the arrival of Maryam Bakery on Blacker Road Huddersfield. They do four nan breads for a pound. They call them nans but they are in fact more of a Kurdish style flat bread. They are freshly baked and better than any plastic wrapped pittas or dusty dry lavoche.

And they come wrapped in paper.

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Going Out PFBs

while we speak of pfbs (plastic free bikkies), there is nothing that iritates Pam more then going for a coffee and getting one of those individually plastic wrapped biscuits besides the cup. Yuck. Luckily I shop in Huddersfield so go to Coffevolution for my bean based brew. They make their own biscuits which are fantastic. …with not a wrapper between them.

Other things to like – its not a chain but run by the owner, the coffe is free trade, the bagels are creamy cheesy and there are murals on the walls.

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Fizzy drinks .. in glass bottles…are you mad???

Really can’t give up fizzy drinks but don’t want to buy them in poison plastic bottles?

Think using a container once then throwing it away is a profligate waste?

Well move to Huddersfield where we have lemonade, and other stuff, in  returnable glass bottles.

I know it sounds a crazy idea, but in the olden days people used to reuse bottles all the time.These days of course we throw the plastic bottle away, but there are still some reusable bottles out there.
Ben Shaws fizzy drinks come in one litre, glass, returnable bottles with a 20p deposit. And they sell Dandelion and Burdock.
The news agents on Westbourne Road, Marsh, stock them and I am sure there are others.

Other fizzy drinks you might be interested in this almost plastic free tonic

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