Friday Saturday and Sunday!!!

Sorry for the delay, I was away for the past couple of days but now that I'm back I can carry on posting to the blog.

Well Morrisons seem to be interested in this project and have been quite helpful too and gave us some fresh yeast for bread. Mum's sourdough starter is bubbling away and she's in the middle of the very long kneading and proving phase of our first homemade sourdough loaves.

And mum seems to be thinking a lot about frozen peas and how we can get hold of them without plastic and she's thinking a lot about 'supply chain' and how if we were to really try as a family to live without plastic, we'd need a small holding, a very large freezer and she wouldn't have the time to go to work with all the gardening she'd need to do! For example, we can go to a shop and take our own pots and fill them with cheese or ham or rice or whatever but you can bet that it has travelled at some point and been packaged in plastic. When the end of our month comes, we're wondering which bits we can continue with and which bits we'll have to return to plastic for. Where will we draw we line? Will it be peas or cream or toothpaste? 

And also whilst I was away I discovered how hard it is to get hold of large quantities of non plastic items without wrapping the whole lot up in 1 large piece of single use plastic. So even with paper cups, they get put in a box and then that gets wrapped in more plastic and the plastic versions are quite a bit cheaper to produce aswell ... so this is getting a little pointless with how non renewable oils are cheaper than permanently renewable sources of paper are. Hmm.

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