How to buy food for a Sunday Roast

Day 4 so far...

Mum helped us make some cloth sandwich wraps this morning but we accidentally got some beeswax on the ironing board. We got some cool fabric from town and ironed beeswax into it. They look really cool.

We’ve also been investigating plastic-free food shopping in town today so have some good tips for Kendal shoppers 

For meat, Woollards Butchers are really helpful. We took our own containers (old but clean ice-cream tubs) and they were happy to fill them with Cumberland sausages for toad in the hole (Mmmmmmm). Also they told us that their bags are biodegradable. They told us that lots of their customers bring there own containers already. 

We visited the new zero waste shop, food nude, which is amazing! They can refill your washing up bottles and clothes washing liquid and they sell spices, pulses, rice and pasta, oats and other things either in paper bags or you can take your own re-useable containers. Looks like the food in their vegan deli is yummy too. They have a website which I recommend you look at - www.foodnude.co.uk


(My brother)^ 

We had a hunt for some colourful cotton or bamboo yarn and both cool crafting and the little shop on the shambles sell cotton yarn in lots of bright colours and cool crafting sell hemp yarn too so mum can keep making dishcloths and face cloths. But we didn’t find any bamboo yarn. Cool Crafting have a website too- www.coolcrafting.co.uk


Everyone we’ve talked to has been really interested in our adventure and it’s such an eye-opening project but mum still hasn't phoned the milkman!

Now she has (at last).

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  1. Unknown15 September 2018 at 10:12

    It was lovely to meet you today and so interesting to hear about your plastic-free mission! Good luck, I look forward to seeing how you get on with it - I also really want to visit food nude now, it sounds like a great place! Jenni (from Cool Crafting)

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    1. the flowery baker16 September 2018 at 10:48

      Hi Jenni it was great to meet you too. I'm going to have to find out about spinning nettles!

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