Good Evening my dears (for those in Western Australia) and a time-specific-greeting to you too (wherever you may be),
How did you go at the Farmers Market? Buy anything delicious? Mmmm... foood! :)
Sadly, my nephew had his Soccer Grand Final today so I missed the farmers market! On the plus side, he and his team WON!!! Yay! Go kiddo! I am a super proud Aunty (and not just now either!)! I enjoyed the fact I was there to watch it. So I guess that just means...next weekend I'm off to the farmers market.
The Sustainable September idea for today is...
September 21: to find a local bulk supply store and buy what you need for your pantry!
I recently discovered a bulk buying store called the Wasteless Pantry. Mum & I went there the other day & bought a few things.
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| The Wasteless Pantry can be found in Mundaring, WA, Australia. |
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| So many things to choose from!!!! |
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| The Spice cabinet part of the Wasteless Pantry! |
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| Buying the Almond meal I need to make a delicious Almond and Orange cake! mmmm. |
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| For our first trip we only bought a few things I knew we needed (whilst staying at my sisters house & for home later too). |
The best part was we could bring our own jars and containers and they would just weigh them and then we filled them up and re weighed them. We paid the difference! So awesome! Prices were pretty good & we got exactly enough to fit in the containers we had! Pretty great of you ask me. :) no waste! No packages to return to our homes to them be chucked in the bin! They had a HUGE range too! They are fairly new in Perth, WA! One awesome feature was that they had a couple boxes of glass jars of all shapes and sizes that were clean and that could be used if you forgot to bring your own. They also had matching ones you could buy... but i love the rustic look, and I know now another place where I can take my excess jars to be used instead of ending up in recycling! :)
When I was in Sydney a few weeks ago I found another store just like it! It is called Scoop Wholefoods :)
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| Being my first experience at a store like this it was kind of like Daena Heaven or Nirvana! :) Paradise! |
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| One of the cool things was they had paper bags for you to use and you could also buy little cotton bags too. I bought one for me to use again here in Perth. |
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| These were the jars at Scoop that you could purchase. All of them looked so Pretty! |
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| I got SO excited they had WHEAT FREE Licorice! I know Licorice isn't everyone's favourite sweet. But i love it. Technically now that i am grain free its still off the table of things I can eat, but its great to know other options now exist for others with weird food intolerances. |
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| I wanted to taste all of the delicious grain free goodies. I however didn't have enough time to sample them all and probably not enough money at that point either! hahaha. So good! |
So much deliciousness! I loved this store in Sydney! :) I love these stores generally too! We need more of them around! :) I love the whole waste free idea!
I mean it all fits in to the Zero Waste Home idea too! It is one of Bea Johnsons biggest suggestions! :) I am almost finished reading the book now and I cant believe that I am still learning so much. I was so proud of myself when I went to the shops yesterday to meet my best friend for "coffee" (neither of us actually drink coffee), and I only bought two things. Both of them for other people. My sister needed some dishwasher tablets that are environmentally friendly, and I went to buy a birthday gift for a friend. Usually when I go shopping I have lots of things I buy. None of it is vital. Its just bits I think I might need, things I can usually do without! Using Bea Johnsons book has helped me plan a bit better too. And I like that! I am now a more conscious shopper.
Anyway, I need to head to bed now. The cooler weather has not helped me coughing! It must get better soon, i have stuff to do! Things to achieve! :)
I hope this finds you all well,
Much love,
Daena x
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