How to be frugal and have less trash ?
Hi !
So again as i said before “Zero” in the term ZERO waste is not possible. At least in my opinion ! As my family still produce trash even though we try our best . For now the amount of trash we make it is okej for us .Since it’s plastic free July i feel double inspired to posts more for you guys and share our ways of being more eco and zero waste ! Today i wanted to tell you how you DON’T have to spend fortune on being more nicer for our beautiful planet . We are living on budget and as a family we have a lot of side expenses we need to save money for . That’s why we do compare the prices .We have amazing two bulk stores here in Göteborg (Sweden ) but there is few stuff that buying in them would have been drastically higher for our budget . I’m talking here about flour,pasta and white rice.
By buying big bag of something that we are using big amounts we pay less and we save money as well as there is less packaging and usually we get 1 ,2 kg or more for free . I bake a lot ! When you are trying to reduce plastic waste and you love cooking for your family you will end up baking / making a lot from scratch. So it’s great BUT buying a big 5 kg bag of all purpose flour we actually get 2 kg for free ! Plus it comes in paper packaging that can be recycled and because its 1 pack it’s actually Less that it would have been if i would buy 5 separate packs of 1 kg flour ! Same goes with pasta ! It comes with a plastic bag true but we are actually reusing the bag after the pasta is done it’s great to freeze bananas or vegetables.We just close the bag with the clips we bought in ikea 5 years ago .I would love to make own pasta and so it will end up probably ! If you have a pasta machine that you could recommend i would be very happy to find out ! Our another staple is rice .
We are getting l0 kg bag of rice instead of 10 separate 1 or 2 kg bag . Usually we buy the rice that comes in cotton fabric bag with a zipper that we use for storing stuff in or for bulk shopping BUT this time that one was on amazing sale and our usual ones were sold out . This packaging is very hard plastic so we are going to reuse it as well for shopping ,storing or maybe even planting in a spring next year !
With this post my point is that there is freaking a lot of options for making better choices in your daily life with plastic consumption! 🙂 You could swap for pepper packaging or buying bigger bag of your usually buying products as simple as that .
Remember you are trying to change something and make our planet better that is already a huge deal that you are makig ! Be proud of yourself and every little small or big changes you make !
Hope you have a wonderful day!