Lifestyle

Day 29: 90 Minutes That Will Change Your Life

As Meat-Free May draws to a close and we reflect on a month of new recipes and new habits, it’s a good time to remember why we’re doing it, so we can decide what impact this will have on our lives going forward. We didn’t give up meat because we don’t like the taste of… Continue reading Day 29: 90 Minutes That Will Change Your Life

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Day 26: The Solution Is In The ‘Palm’ Of Your Hand!

The menu over the last few days has become a bit repetitive as we have been cooking some old favourites, so today we're going to explore a different but equally important topic: Palm oil. What is palm oil? Palm oil is exactly that - oil extracted from palm trees. The product itself is harmless and… Continue reading Day 26: The Solution Is In The ‘Palm’ Of Your Hand!

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Day 15: Good things come in Smol packages

Day 15 and it’s the last day before the ‘big shop’, so nothing exciting on the menu I’m afraid (if you are interested, the menu is at the end of this post). What I will share instead is my favourite new eco-product: Smol Laundry Capsules. The best thing about it is it only cost me… Continue reading Day 15: Good things come in Smol packages

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Day 6: Simple Swaps for a Sustainable Bathroom

Instead of bringing you a recipe today, we thought we’d mix things up by sharing some of the sustainable products we're trying this week and where you can get your hands on them. Simple Swaps for a Sustainable Bathroom Solid Shampoo & Conditioner Bars by Friendly Soaps Why swap? Friendly Soap bars are plastic free,… Continue reading Day 6: Simple Swaps for a Sustainable Bathroom

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Of course it’s recyclable… isn’t it?

In the UK, we have been doing our household recycling every day for almost 17 years, so we obviously know what we're doing, right? We can tell our PTE from our LDPE, can't we? Anyway, all packaging tells us whether it can be recycled, doesn't it? The answer is almost definitely no! Since turning our… Continue reading Of course it’s recyclable… isn’t it?