The Foods Costing Your Household Most in Waste
When food rescue organisations take a look at what food items household kitchens are most likely to send to landfill, they see 5 repeat offenders: Fruit Vegetables Bagged Salads Bread…
How to Compost: Breaking it Down
When we look at the sources of greenhouse gases, it can be easy to forget that food waste is estimated to be responsible for up to 10% of emissions. This…
Which Containers Are Safe for Food Storage?
It’s not easy. You want to extend the life of your fresh fruit and vegetables for as long as you can. You also want to minimise how much you expose…
How To (Properly) Store Fruit and Vegetables
Counter? Crisper?? Container??? Not knowing where to store your fresh produce can often mean it all ends up in the same place anyway – the trash. So let’s take a…
How Veggie Saver Pays For Itself Within the First 2 Weeks of Use
You wouldn’t believe how much food the average Australian household wastes per year - $2,000! In the US it’s USD$1,600 for the average family of four. With staggering numbers like…
Taking the Plastic-Free Plunge at Lunchtime
It can sometimes be easier to keep plastic out of our homes than it is to keep it out of our lunch boxes. Think about it. You’re usually rushed, distracted,…
The last frontier – Binning the Plastic Bin Liner
Some changes towards a plastic-free house are easier to make than others.But trading out the plastic bin liner? Tricky. It’s that balance between removing pesky plastics from the house, but…
6 Chef’s Tips for Keeping Your Fruit and Veggies Fresh for Longer
It can be a hard choice. Do I want to be going to the Supermarket every day for fresh ingredients? OR Do I settle for soggy salads and sad celery…
Rising Costs make it Harder and Harder to Pay the Bills – did our Grandparents have the Answer?
Right now, it seems like the cost of absolutely everything keeps rising. Fuel… Interest rates… groceries. Sometimes it feels totally overwhelming. You aren’t alone though. When you look back through…
A Zero Waste Home: Where to start
When banks start offering lower mortgage rates for greener homes, and the pain at the grocery check-out seems to grow each week, there’s never been a better time to start…