Category: Monthly Plastic Free Challenge
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Recommendations To Help With The TV Dinner Challenge
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This month, we’ve been focusing on replacing TV dinners as a way to cut down on single-use plastics. The 3 strategies to help achieve that goal are: homemade freezer meals, ‘meals in a jar’, and 15 minute meals. I’ve mentioned several resources to help support these strategies throughout various posts.…
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Can 15 Minute Meals Work as TV Dinner Replacements?
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This month’s challenge is to cut down on plastic by replacing TV dinners. We’re using 3 strategies to meet this challenge. Strategy #1 is making homemade freezer meals. Strategy #2 is shelf-stable ‘meals in a jar’ and strategy #3 is 15 minute meals. The 15 minute meal strategy is the…
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What You Need to Heat Food Without A Microwave
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This month, our plastic-free challenge is to replace TV dinners/microwave meals in order to cut down on plastic in our kitchens and food. We’re using 3 strategies to meet this challenge – freezer meals, meals in jars, and 15 minute meals. In reading the articles, you may have noticed I…
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How to Make Meals-in-a-Jar Replace TV dinners
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This month’s eco-friendly challenge is replacing TV dinners with plastic-free alternatives. We have 3 strategies to help us achieve this goal. Last week, the focus was on the freezer meal strategy. This week we’re going to delve into the second strategy using meals-in-a-jar as the replacement. What are meals-in-a-jar? Meals-in-a-jar…
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Freeze-Dried Food: How To Use It For Your Sustainable Pantry
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I’ll be honest, I don’t really love to cook. So I’m always looking for quick and easy meals. Which is what got me started with freeze-dried food. I love being able to make meals-in-a-jar ahead of time for busy days. I also love having meats and veggies on hand in…
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No More Plastic: How to Make Freezer Meals Replace TV Dinners
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This month, the goal is to replace single-use plastics from TV dinners and other microwave meals. Not only do these plastics feel like an unnecessary waste, but they also leach harmful chemicals into your food. So that’s why we will focus on three strategies to replace those plastics in our…
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This Month’s Challenge: How to Replace TV Dinners
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This month’s goal is to find sustainable ways to cut out plastic from TV dinners/microwave meals. I’ll be honest, I really do rely on microwave meals more than I’d like to admit. Even though I know this is the worst way to use plastic since plastic compounds are more likely to leach…
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Conclusion to This Month’s Plastic Wrap Challenge
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We’re coming to the end of this month’s plastic wrap challenge, time to see how well the alternatives compare to plastic. We’ll take a look at how the plastic replacements did with being frozen. I’ll also be sharing some insights about using the silicone products, beeswax wraps, and fabric bowl…
