Cass B Chickpea

I LOVE apples. I am a full believer of eating an apple a day. I also love snacking. Applesauce combined apples and snacking. Perfect! Unfortunately, most applesauce at stores is either in big plastic containers or those tiny one sized plastic containers. I used to buy 6 tiny containers of applesauce every week. Buying one pack once a week for 6 months is 156 tiny plastic containers.. For a year, that's 312. 312 plastic containers!! I know they can be recycled, but a few years ago, I wasn't recycling and I'm sure that there are other people that don't recycle or reuse those containers either. Since I still wanted to eat applesauce but didn't want to buy the glass jarred applesauce or the plastic containers, I had to find my way around it. Well thankfully, homemade applesauce is zero waste! And it's extremely cheap to make! I buy the golden delicious apples at Sprouts Farmer's Market. They're usually 98 cents a pound, so I can get a lot for really chea

Living a zero waste life and going grocery shopping can be very challenging. Ready made and processed products can be so tempting and sometimes cheaper. I admit, I am definitely not perfect when it comes to shopping at the grocery store, but I am taking steps to reduce my use of plastic and packaging. Here is what I have been doing to buy/use less packaging at the grocery store: Bring produce bags! Going in with bags for things like apples, lettuce, or whatever produce you get, saves from using those small plastic bags that are just thrown away every week. And if you buy a lot of produce like me, then you are using so much less plastic. My favorite produce bags are by a company called Earth Junky. I bought them on Amazon here . Disclaimer: This is just my opinion. I am not a paid spokesperson for these bags, but I do highly recommend them. Bring reusable grocery sacs. This seems like a simple thing, but taking grocery sacs can save so many plastic grocery sacs from being used. A