3 easy edible Christmas gifts

Homemade gifts can add a lovely personal touch to the holiday season, and a great option when gifting more sustainably. I've put together 3 easy(ish) recipes for the holiday season that work wonderfully as presents - or for yourself to enjoy over the festive period: Frosted almondsChocolate trufflesLimoncello All 3 recipes are quite straightforward and…

Eco-switch up your Christmas gifts

In my last post we covered some general ways you can make gift giving (and receiving) more sustainable (check out the last post here). Now we’re going to focus more on the specifics: the gifts themselves and ways to choose more sustainable in our purchasing choices. This isn’t a list of zerowaste/eco gift suggestions (like…

6 steps to more sustainable Christmas gifts

Welcome to my first Sustainable Blogmas post! Over the next couple of months, I’ll be sharing thoughts and ideas on where we can make our festive choices more sustainable. It’s not about sacrificing what you love or enjoy, but making little changes where you can. First off, I’ll be talking about sustainable gifts; an area…

Choosing an eco-friendly toilet paper

As we come to the end of our latest pack of supermarket (plastic-wrapped) toilet paper, I want to move on to a more eco alternative. But with so many different brands out there, which one should I choose? To try and help me decide, I picked a few brands (mainly ones I've already heard of)…

Can we be car-free?

We're officially car-free!! Well, technically we’ve been car-free since April, when my car lease ended. But lockdown had postponed the car pickup and it was left parked until they could come and collect it. Two months later, and it’s time to finally say goodbye to my little car. In the last few months of the…