Author: Susie Klein
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Curry Chicken Salad Recipe for a Quick Lunch
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Not only is this chicken salad recipe quick and easy, it’s also a huge help with cutting down on plastic packaging from deli meats. How does it cut down on plastic? Allow me to explain! The key is that I’m using freeze-dried meats. Note: I will only recommend products that…
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Chickpeas – Your Plastic Free Ally for Lunches
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For this month’s challenge, I’m trying to find plastic-free protein replacements for deli meats. Something that I can make ahead of time and can be quickly assembled for a handheld meal. When going over my options, I realized that chickpeas, aka garbanzo beans, would be my new plastic free ally for this…
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On the Look Out For Zero-Waste Food: Peanut Butter
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With this month’s challenge being to cut down on plastics from deli meats and cheeses, I’m going to have to rely more on plant protein alternatives. One of those alternatives is, you guessed it, peanut butter! I love peanut butter but this advice applies to any nut butter. I know I can get plastic-free peanut…
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Plastic-Free Deli Meat and Cheese: This Month’s Challenge
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My goal this month is to figure out how to go plastic-free for deli meats and cheeses. Or at the very least reduce the amount of disposable plastic used. I’ve read about people going to the deli counter at their grocer or local butchers and being able to bring their…
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Next Steps For Better Habits For a Better Planet
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I find it a bit annoying when I look up advice for living more eco-friendly and all I get are quick tip snippets. Don’t get me wrong, the tip snippets are good advice. They just don’t really address the “how-to” element of living more sustainably. Maybe it’s just me, and…
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What to Expect from Sustainable Pursuits Monthly Plastic-Free Challenge
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I created Sustainable Pursuits monthly plastic-free challenge to help with my intentional living goal of cutting down on plastic dependency. I’ve already swapped out many of the plastics I use for their sustainable counterparts, but I wanted to dive deeper and focus on the items that aren’t so easy to…
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5 Eco-Friendly Challenges To Add To Your Calendar
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What are eco-friendly challenges? Eco-friendly challenges are a collective effort to raise awareness about environmental issues and to make a positive impact through individual change. Challenges can be run by official organizations, municipalities, or sustainable-living bloggers. However, for this article I’m just going to focus on the eco-friendly organizations. Eco-friendly…
