We manage to use 95%+ of A&C boxes but only 60-70% of Riverford boxes - no idea with how much would weigh up against saving on wastage their end. If I liked celery, it may have been a different story!
I realised after posting that I forgot to mention that they do have milk, though only at breakfast and afternoon snack. Also if we have wine, we let Owen have squash (which we wouldn't do if it were just me). Nursery only give water at meals anyway, so that wasn't issue. We let Owen have juice at restaurants, parties etc. but he usually prefers milk if that's on offer. It'd be tricky to institute now if we'd been giving juice all this time, and I don't think you could do it unless you were happy just drinking water too.
Your posts have got me thinking a lot about the single-use plastic we use. I guess part of the point of the exercise is that you find one or two things that you can do to use less plastic that you change permanently. For example, we use reusable baby wipes at home for meals but not for nappies or out and about, and if I were doing it, I'd have to experiment with that and might discover it's not as scary as I anticipated. One of the hard things would be that we have a very limited range of shops nearby and getting int he car and driving for half an hour would presumably negate the lack of plastic.
Also flat breads / pitta style bread are relatively easy to make from scratch and yummy.
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Date: 2014-07-03 06:39 am (UTC)I realised after posting that I forgot to mention that they do have milk, though only at breakfast and afternoon snack. Also if we have wine, we let Owen have squash (which we wouldn't do if it were just me). Nursery only give water at meals anyway, so that wasn't issue. We let Owen have juice at restaurants, parties etc. but he usually prefers milk if that's on offer. It'd be tricky to institute now if we'd been giving juice all this time, and I don't think you could do it unless you were happy just drinking water too.
Your posts have got me thinking a lot about the single-use plastic we use. I guess part of the point of the exercise is that you find one or two things that you can do to use less plastic that you change permanently. For example, we use reusable baby wipes at home for meals but not for nappies or out and about, and if I were doing it, I'd have to experiment with that and might discover it's not as scary as I anticipated. One of the hard things would be that we have a very limited range of shops nearby and getting int he car and driving for half an hour would presumably negate the lack of plastic.
Also flat breads / pitta style bread are relatively easy to make from scratch and yummy.