Feeling very tired and honey trouble - day 7

So we are seven days into our challenge of not buying plastic and mum is really tired... Every evening she has to spend more time making things that we can't buy without plastic like bread, tortilla wraps, handkerchiefs...

Living without plastic not only costs more but it takes a lot more time. It means everything is yummier but it all takes more effort, more time, more imagination, more research and more money.

This evening mum has cooked tea, made crumble (I did make the crumble mix though), made packed lunch bars and bread is proving for tomorrow and she's washed up half a dozen times! (She's hoping we don't run out). She has also researched making custard powder because we've run out. It seems pretty easy to make: cornflour, milk powder, sugar, vanilla, almond extract and yellow food colouring. Only milk powder comes in the same type of containers that custard powder does and they have plastic lids :(.

Mum also went shopping today, to Morrisons (who appear to be trying to reduce the plastic a bit at least). She bought peppers (in a paper bag) - 2 for £1.20 but the plastic bag of wonky peppers was only £1.18 and had about 5 peppers in. She bought chicken breasts (in the reusable tub she took with her) from the butchers counter but they weighed the meat on a sheet of plastic first and they probably threw that away. She tried to buy honey but the only jar with zero plastic was Morrison's cut comb acacia honey cost £6.60. All the other glass jars of honey had plastic seals around the lids which is completely unnecessary. She also tried to buy cheese but the person on the counter suggested that she get a piece of pre-cut cheese and they'd unwrap it and put it in our reuseable tub which kind of defeats the point but atleast booths wrap it in paper so we have that as an option for cheese.

Wonder what day 8 will bring...

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