Food Waste And How To Cut It Down In Your Home

Food waste is often talked about, its really important to help our environment with these four things.

Buy Less-

• Buying the right amount of food for your family, often way less than you think.
• Finding the right balance between buying to much that it goes off quicker than you can eat it and not driving to the store everyday, because that is also harmful to our environment.
• Buying simple foods that will last/ could be cooked in many different meals (Tinned chopped tomatoes, simple veg, lentils.)

Wonky Food-

• Not being afraid to buy food from that store that has bumps, wrinkles all different thing wrong because by the time you have cooked, fryed, steamed or peeled it'll be fine.
• Also not being afraid to eat wonky slightly off food more often than not it is actually fine.

Leftovers-

• Making your food into leftovers, not just throwing it out.
• putting it away in a way that your know whats inside, youll be more inclined to eat then.
• Actually eating the leftover, making it the norm to make food and eat the leftovers all before you cook a whole new meal.
• Looking in the fridge if there is a half cut lemon or onion before you cut into a whole new one

Composting-

• composting your food so once you have done all the things you can the food goes back into the earth, I don't know to much about composting but I know its big part on helping our environment 

Low Waste Laundry

Laundry is something that is quite a big part of low impact, for me anyway, and it took me a little while to find options. I have used Ecover since the early 2000s ish, but since then we have found more Eco friendly products to use. In this blog post I will talk about my favourite brands and things to take the extra step for the environment when doing your laundry.

One of my favourite company's to buy laundry liquid from is Mulieres they have a home compostable outer and then you can recycle the plastic innards. a very eco friendly option that you can buy very easily on whole foods website or on https://www.mulieres.eu/en/.

Next in our house we love the Bio D washing powder. It comes straight in a paper bag and is really affordable, a lot of other brands can get quite pricey, so this is a good alternative.
LINK TO BUY

Another one I love is also Bio D's, laundry liquid and fabric softener. they do come in plastic but if you don't like the laundry powder and you need a cheaper alternative then this is a good one.
Laundry liquid link
Fabric Softener Link

A Cora ball is really good product we use to catch micro plastics that come of our synthetic clothes, you can put it in your washing machine when you wash synthetic clothes, blanket ext. (Synthetic fabrics include nylon, polyester, viscose and a lot more.) Another product to catch micro plastics is a guppy bag/friend, that you put your clothes into to wash, and it grabs all the micro plastics and stop them going into our water cycle.
Cora Ball Link
Guppy Friend Link



Also washing your clothes on a cold wash and not tumble drying are also good tips to help our planet.