recipe boxes - all that waste!

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simonineaston
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Re: recipe boxes - all that waste!

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re recipe boxes & recycling, here's the response from 4 players, when interviewed by The Grocer:
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/reci ... 43.article
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Re: recipe boxes - all that waste!

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Cugel wrote: 8 Dec 2022, 2:54pm We're lucky enough out here in 1950s-land (West Wales) to have olde fashioned foodstuff sellers who don't wrap anything much in anything much. The wet fish and meat sometimes have a bit of greaseproof paper 'round them but even they can be put in your own reusable containers. They're sold by small sellers - butchers, bakers and .... the fruit&veg lady.

The fruit and veg is all loose and put into a weekly wood or carboard box for collection after a phone order is made. We pick ours up on the way back frm the daily dog walk in the forest. It's sold from an open air stall in a market square. The boxes are what the wholesale fruit & veg comes in to the seller and they're returned each week so get dozens of uses before becoming too dilapidated. Much of the stuff is locally grown although not the oranges and avocados etc..

The fish comes with Len the Fish in his van, to the door. The bread is baked by three local bakeries (all different styles) and at most has a sheet of tissue paper 'round each loaf, which you can take back for reuse over several loaf purchases. The butcher is a proper 'un who can tell you where everything comes from and sells mostly local free range and traditional stuff unpolluted by gallons of antibiotics, hormones and nasty feedstuffs from gawd-knows where.

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I realise that many are stuck with supermarkets, who are sinners of many sins when it comes to food quality and the associated packaging. When I'm dictator they'll all be closed in favour of 73 small shops per supermarket, spread around the place and offering delivery services via cargobike. :-)

Cugel
Hopefully when you take over you will ensure everyone can afford to shop locally at small shops. I know we wouldn't manage on our budget without the supermarkets. I know they aren't always cheaper but for most staple foods they are.
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Unfortunately, it's difficult to persuade people - especially those on a low budget - that there are a great many negative consequences resulting from the supermarkets' use of economic levers to drive down food prices to an artificially low level. Of course, it makes sense to seek out the least expensive ways to feed the family, however the knock on effects of such cheap food have wide spread negative effects on areas like animal welfare, soil erosion, water purity & bio-security, both home and abroad.
It's tempting to hope that the super-cheap chicken is a bargain with no down side however as we all know, there's no such thing as a free lunch and the long-term consequences of artificially cheap food are likely to be unpleasant - and possibly even disasterous.
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