My war on waste!!!

Zed42

Come round my house, it's always in a butter dish on the counter

(I've obviously not managed the art of replying to posts though ... sigh!)

GreyQueen

Yeah, keep the butter dish out.

I have a very small lidded pyrex tureen (about the size of the palm of my hand) which I use as my butter dish. I put out half a block of butter at a time as I'm a singleton and don't use that much. It's great, so much nicer than margarine.

And, as you know, you only have a piece of paper at the end, not a plastic sarcophagus.:rotfl:

I shall be visiting my allotment to plant some fruit bushes (in the shops now, including £land) and harvest some leeks. I shall also be pulling over the compost Dalek as I lost a veg knife a couple of weeks before Xmas, have searched everywhere and can only think that it might have gone in there with a bundle of peeling.

FunBrum

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Yeah, keep the butter dish out.

I have a very small lidded pyrex tureen (about the size of the palm of my hand) which I use as my butter dish. I put out half a block of butter at a time as I'm a singleton and don't use that much. It's great, so much nicer than margarine.

And, as you know, you only have a piece of paper at the end, not a plastic sarcophagus.:rotfl:

I shall be visiting my allotment to plant some fruit bushes (in the shops now, including £land) and harvest some leeks. I shall also be pulling over the compost Dalek as I lost a veg knife a couple of weeks before Xmas, have searched everywhere and can only think that it might have gone in there with a bundle of peeling.

My butter is out...:rotfl:

I really miss my allotment GreyQueen.:( I envy you:)

I was so pleased that when the binmen came, I only had one almost full bag for them, even after 4 weeks :j

I haven't bough anything so no packaging and no waste

meritaten

Butter was always in the dish in the kitchen - cheese was always wrapped in its greaseproof paper in the 'larder' (that was north facing so never got too hot in summer). and butter was put in the larder in summer as otherwise it 'melted'! and this was AFTER mum got a fridge! and we never kept eggs in fridge either - as they always need to be used at room temperature and refrigerating them didn't actually make them last longer. and shops don't keep them in the coolers do they?

katkin

These are lovely stories out how butter lived in our homes. Thank you.

We've just moved over to proper butter and are rather enjoying putting a small amount out for a few days out in our so far un-used Denby butter dish. We hardly use any, its so easy to spread at room temperature and so, very tasty you hardly need any.

So it's a bit extra washing up, nothing much compared to the washing of the plastic carton of say lurpak etc

fuddle

A slight improvement in plastic waste as I haven't needed to push the contents of the bin down in order to get the last lot in but I still have a bin full to put out.

I have decided against a composer. I just don't think my raised plot would use all that it would produce. Back to a kitchen composer but I am already grinding down my egg shells to put on my fruit in the plot, along with the loose tea.

I found the fruit bushes in £land GQ. Much obliged.

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

A slight improvement in plastic waste as I haven't needed to push the contents of the bin down in order to get the last lot in but I still have a bin full to put out.

I have decided against a composer. I just don't think my raised plot would use all that it would produce. Back to a kitchen composer but I am already grinding down my egg shells to put on my fruit in the plot, along with the loose tea.

I found the fruit bushes in £land GQ. Much obliged.

Glad you found them. I went back yesterday for one more gooseberry and two redcurrants, which I planted out this morning. Have also got my £land onion sets, one lot of red, one of white. Have been growing these for years and they always do well for me (fertile soil with lots of sun is the trick). Too early to plant them yet, but I buy them now and store them in a cool place, because they won't be in £land by the time it's ready to plant them.

I would like to encourage you to have a composter, if I may. The volume of compost produced vs the amount of material put into it is surprisingly small and doesn't go that far. My compost 'dalek' takes over two years to fill and rots down to less than a third of the bin's height. I forked that over a bed which was only 5 ft x 7.5 ft. It could have gone a little further but not that much more.

The beneficial effects of home composting on a 300 sq m plot are neglible so I try to concentrate the stuff on plants which are heavy feeders. I grew cougettes on the aforementioned bed. Oh boy, did I grow courgetttes.............! You can also put compost in the planting holes for spuds and in trenches where you grow runner beans. I harvested leeks yesterday and left them in a trug filled from the rainwater butt to rinse, then topped and tailed them to leave the excess leaves on the allotment in the compost. More efficient than biking them down, wrestling with them in the tiny kitchen and taking them back again.

I have a baking tray set up in the grill pan to dry off the tea leaves and bake rinsed eggshells in the bottom on the oven in another tray, and these get ground up and added to a 4 pinter milk bottle. This makes them easy to transport to the lottie and sprinkle over the soil. Don't want to let that goodness escape.

sistercas

My landfill bin is due for its fortnightly emptying on Tuesday and so far is less that a quarter full, a huge improvement on before when I used to have to squash it down :j

I have a butter dish , had one for years I keep it on the side except for when we have a hot summer , so basically it stays on the kitchen side :rotfl:

tooties

Butter dish is a small click and lock jobby,the butter sits on the underside of the lid, the main body of the plastic tub goes over the big lump of butter so in effect we use the tub upside down. DH dropped the china butter dish and this was the only way i could afford to replace butter dish at a £1. Works really well and lives on the worktop.


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Attempt2save

Thank you for your replies regarding the butter and I have now got a butter dish from Asda
GreyQueen- I've been putting the tea leaves in the composter, so I should bake them along with egg shells? How long do you bake them for and at what temp?
I haven't done much to the allotment as it has been so wet.