My war on waste!!!

silvasava

Fuddle - I have two compost bins side by side, one rotting down and the other being topped up & both are made from old pallets. They make really good bins as the air can get through. I know your DH is very handy & I'm sure there will be something on t'internet

meritaten

'old plastic bins' make good composters if you take the bottoms out! we were extremely fortunate in that the council actually gave pensioners a 'free composter' in their initiative to get people to reduce food waste. so mum had one and we all contributed our peelings waste. their next step was to give all residents a free 'cooked or uncooked food bin'. they take that every fortnight. I would gladly have paid for one as I think its an excellent idea! I wouldn't use the 'leftovers' from somebodies plate or the cats leavings!
I am ashamed to say though - today I had to throw away the chicken meant for sunday lunch.........and leftovers would have made a few more meals. my fault, I bought it on 31st December and misread the use by date - it was yesterday and that chicken was definitely 'off'! Stank actually!

ALIBOBSY

juno wrote: »

A stand is good, but only if people know it. And so far, nobody who actually needs to know (because they can do anything about it) will know. For this to work, she's even admitted that other people need to make it happen - the cashier has to notice, and then the cashier has to tell management, who then have to sort it. That's relying on other people rather than doing anything yourself.

Even writing to a newspaper or making an online petition would have more effect, because there's slightly more chance of the action leading to a result. At the moment, there is no result possible.

I'm not against change, and I'm not against the environment or reducing waste. But this is not reducing waste. It's moving the waste, and then hoping that someone else will do something.

The reality is one person alone will not really make the supermarkets sit up and take notice and you are right that the management will not hear from the checkout assistant for one instance, but say everytime the OP goes in and shops 2 or 3 people hear her and think about it and say one of them starts doing the same, then each time they go in someone else overhears and thinks about it again. Things like that can and definately have started small and then spread exponentionally and the management will DEFINATELY notice if their rubbish disposal costs went up by say 10 or 20%.

Certainly in some stores abroad they have places as you go out where you can unpackage items and leave the packaging behind for the supermarket to deal with, and this means the stores are pushed to reduce what is on the food in the first place.

Our local farm shop does veggies in paperbags we we can reuse and then recycle or compost.

Ali x

beautiful_ravens

Calluna wrote: »

Hi,
Could you not have boiled the pigs head and fed it to the chickens?
Ours used to love to eat any carcasses left over from roasts etc, including the scraps from roast chicken dinners :eek:

calluna

I thought about cooking it for the dog, but have you seen a pigs head sliced lengthways? Its all a bit grim, and Im not a squeamish person; also I didnt want to stink out the house with boiled pig head smell at christmas, my OH is veggie and I don't have a big enough pan! :rotfl:

silvasava

Alibobsy - on the continent (especially in Germany) retailers are obliged to take any packaging back!
BeautifulRavens - I had half a pigs head many years ago & boiled it - it did have quite a bit of meat on it, it was tasty and cheap but I've never done it again as there was something about pigs teeth that I felt squeamish about!

Calluna

beautiful_ravens wrote: »

I thought about cooking it for the dog, but have you seen a pigs head sliced lengthways? Its all a bit grim, and Im not a squeamish person; also I didnt want to stink out the house with boiled pig head smell at christmas, my OH is veggie and I don't have a big enough pan! :rotfl:

I used to butcher our goat kids, so I've probably seen more than enough of the workings on the inside of a carcass to last me a life time:rotfl:I can imagine boiled pigs head is pretty rank, although 'head cheese' is quite sort after by some

jackyann

I have made "head cheese" although we used to call it "pork brawn". It's really only worthwhile for a crowd, and it is time-consuming.
I haven't made it for years, but for smaller numbers I do the "hock terrine" that has become fashionable of late: it's the same principle but with smaller, more managable hocks & trotters.

beautiful_ravens

Calluna wrote: »

I used to butcher our goat kids

LOL! I took this the silly way!

Attempt2save

I've tried to not use spreadable butter/marg due to binning the boxes so changed to butter but Dh hates it as he can't spread it, so can it be kept out of the fridge? I don't have a larder.
Sorry for the daft question.

PasturesNew

Attempt2save wrote: »

I've tried to not use spreadable butter/marg due to binning the boxes so changed to butter but Dh hates it as he can't spread it, so can it be kept out of the fridge? I don't have a larder.
Sorry for the daft question.

Butter was always kept out of the fridge years ago. Going round people's houses you'd see it sitting on the worktop in a butter dish.

If you're really nervous about it, then you could get a little pot - then keep the butter in the fridge and scrape off some butter curls every day to pop into the pot. Or, just cut a lump off the butter and into a dish on the top.