So yesterday I did the big Food Part 1 post, mostly focused on breakfast, lunch and dinner. Today we carry on with Part 2… this time focusing on snacks, treats and drinks. I’m more of a savoury girl than a sweet one, so more often than not would opt for popcorn, pea flour crackers or walnut crackers over anything sweet. Sometimes even a fork full of kimchi! Proper Crisps have a couple of their chip flavours in home compostable packaging so on the odd, […]
Zero Waste
Day 18 – FOOD Part 1
I love food… growing it, preparing, cooking and most of all eating it! I’ve already blogged about my marrow/ zucchini abundance and how I cooked and baked with it … but here is a dedicated lockdown FOOD post. Being vegetarian with a preference for a dairy free, wheat free diet and zero waste… some people have a hard time imagining what it is I actually eat! I can assure you I eat well and often. 🙂 Here’s a run down of some staples/ usual […]
Zero Waste Living
Reducing waste was one of my New Year’s resolutions for 2019. As you can see in the photo of each month’s waste in this blog post we were far from ZERO Waste. I don’t see the term Zero Waste as a target though – where you fail if you don’t literally achieve it. I see it more as an ideal or a vision to work towards. A vision of a circular economy where waste is not produced, not buried or burned, where if anything […]
New Year’s Resolutions
It’s not every year that I make resolutions for the year ahead.. and when I do, I can’t always remember what they were 12 months later! With 2020 fast approaching it’s time to think about some goals for the year ahead but also reflect on the year that has been. I think for 2020 my resolutions will be about prioritising time, i.e. spend time developing my te reo Māori and Farsi/ Dari language skills and spend more time with friends. I made three distinct […]