For the month of February I set a goal for myself to grocery shop waste free. When heading out to do my Sunday grocery shopping, I brought cloth bags for dried goods, mesh bags for produce, and jars for things like liquid sweeteners and spices. I also adjusted what I was purchasing so that items were package […]
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My month of waste free grocery shopping
I set a challenge for myself to grocery shop waste free for the month of February. For the last 28 days I have tried to purchase all of my groceries totally unpackaged while also incorporating new shopping techniques, like shopping the bulk aisle, bringing my own cloth bags for breads and grains, and bringing my own jars […]
If you give a mouse a cookie… he will want a glass of almond milk
On my zero waste journey I have been asked this question: how do you plan to buy milk? My husband likes regular ol’ dairy milk and we are lucky that our local Co-Op sells milk in glass jugs from Castle Rock Organic Farms in Osseo, WI. But I strayed away from milk long ago and most recently […]