So it has been about 19 years and one of my plastic Pyrex lids finally had to move onto the next life. In this case it will be a demonstration item at my tabling as to what can happen to plastic as it ages. This is not the lid in this post, but it’s a…
Please separate plastic bags and packing things from your boxes. Also take shrink wrap, the plastic wrapping, off of things that come in curtains like bottled water and separate the materials. Plastic bags go to store drop offs and cardboard should be flattened and put in your recycling cart. #plasticbags #boxes #recycling #mixedmaterials #recyclemore #atxrecycles
Cut plastic sleeves off plastic bottles: this is particularly applicable to dairy products like yogurts, kefir, milk, milk alternatives and yogurt drinks. Check the following brands/items: Lifeway Kefir Promise Land Dairy Activia Chobani #plasticsleeves#plastic#plasticbottles#kefir#yogurt#yogurtdrinksLifeway KefirActiviaChobani
We are in a cornbread phase right now! We are enjoying our yellow, blue, and green corneals. We use Barton Springs Mill cornmeal in fresh homemade cornbread. I’ve been baking about one loaf per week. We modified a recipe from Bless This Mess so it doesn’t require cast iron or butter and we really love…
Salt container = Trash. According to the How2Recycle label on my Morton’s Salt, it goes in the trash. It is coated paper so it’s not recyclable or compostable. Keep an eye out for the How2Recycle labels on your salt options and try to find one that is recyclable or compostable but still meets your nutritional…
Early birthday present for me from Comandre Panaderia! So delicious and they use Barton Springs Mill flour, our favorite! This is our second visit and hubby grabbed everything we hadn’t tried the first time. Our 7 year old’s favorite is the red berry concha. I can’t pick a favorite, it’s all great! Compost the box#shoplocal#shopsmall#bakery#fresh#austintx#localaustin#austinbakery#compost#atxcomposts
I made my own peanut butter cups! All store peanut butter cups have palm oil in them and that’s neither healthy for humans or the orangutans’ habitats that are destroyed for palm oil production. Heads up most baked or prepackaged goods at chain stores have palm oil in them. It seems to be in everything……
Butternut squash, pumpkin, pulpy stuff scooping is made easier with a sugar spoon or grapefruit spoon. I preferred the sugar spoon and the scalloped edges to help scrape the stringy pulp out of my butternut squash. Yes, I did go pull seeds out of my compost after the video for my son to plant for…
Meet my new earrings made from upcycled cereal boxes! These are from Jabebo Studio. I have Wild Turkeys and the 12 Days of Christmas here in the featured photo plus their Red Foxes. The two Christmas earrings are four birds calling on a landline phone with a cord and a partridge in a pear tree!…
Reuse an oven tray as a trivet. This oven rack is from three toaster ovens ago but it has feet so I kept as an excellent trivet for muffins and cupcakes to cool off. The feet raise the rack up to allow air to circulate under the muffins and cool the bottom down. This post…