Shopping lists

After taking a look at the 'Love Food Hate Waste' site, I was astonished. The facts are incredible that we throw away so much food. It really is a crime. There are very simple steps we can take to stop this waste and in the process, save some money too, which can't be to bad. We don't have any bin collection here so we do have to recycle so much more.

A good idea is making a list of the whole weeks' food that we'll be having and only use the car once for our 15 mile round trip to the supermarket. Recipe and meal planners are easy to find on the internet and even supermarkets provide meal cards with great ideas to save money and time. Also, I try to not put the fruit and vegetables in plastic bags to be weighed. Its a pointless exercise and who cares if your apples and oranges roll down the checkout belt?

Recycling Light Bulbs

Rooting around today in the drawer, I found loads of old light bulbs where the tungsten bit had burnt out. Why I keep these I'll never know. Do I put them in the glass recycling - I don't know? A quick search on the Recycle Now website said that most local authorities won’t accept normal household light bulbs for recycling via recycling centres or kerbside recycling schemes. So what now for the light bulb that has given me light and heat for most of its short life? Well, after more Googling, I found a site called About.com which has a craft section. Here it tells you great ideas for recycling light bulbs into items such as Christmas tree decorations.