I’m back in the saddle after spending 3 days up ‘in the smoke’ (that’s London to you missus) attending www.ukaware.com.
I was helping Dave Hampton (the Carbon Coach) to host the speaker panels that were on Friday and Saturday and sat on a panel too on Saturday afternoon.
It was an amazing event – Mr OOFFOO himself, [...]
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Sprouting Fillers
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish recipes, tagged A Vogel, alfalfa, money saving tips, sprouting seeds on 12 April 2009 | 6 Comments »
If you’ve got my neverending lettuce’s on the go on your windowsills, well done green-fingered chum, you’re going to love this too!
Here’s another delicious filler to accompany them in salads, sandwiches and in thousands of other dishes; sprouting seeds and beans.
You’ll probably remember cultivating mustard cress at school; I do believe, along with trying to [...]
Don’t Have a Rubbish Mother’s Day!
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish news, Rubbish recipes, tagged 22nd March, crafting, Fair, Fairtrade Tropical Compote, fruit porridge, Fruit Shakes, granola, hand-made cards, Kate Sebag, Mother's Day, tea cake with bananas and raisins, The Fairtrade Foundation, Tropical Wholefoods on 2 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’ll be here before you know it missus!
I thought I’d get in quick with a rubbish-free card solution and with a yummy idea to get the day started on the right foot too.
I’ve also allowed you a stack of lead time to send this article to any fellas you know who might be glad of [...]
Rubbish Recipes: My Divine Beetroot Plaits
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish recipes, tagged beetroot, herbs, home baking, how to make bread, how to make rolls, leeks, parsnip, plaits, Tracey Smith on 15 January 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’ve been inspired by the ever-increasing number of readers I have of the other recipes here on the blog and I thought I’d post another of my favourites for you to play with.
It’s another bread recipe, fabulously simple and incredibly impressive!
The reason I love sharing my bread recipes with you, is because if you can [...]
Rubbish on the Radio: Frugal Organic Veggie Boxes and More
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish on the Radio, Win free tickets to the Odeon, tagged Apple AM, beat the credit crunch, Leftovers, Love Food Hate Waste, money saving tips, Odeon Cinema, Riverford, Tracey Smith on 14 January 2009 | 9 Comments »
Morning all!
Oh, I’ve been well and truly told off by my regulars here – lolol – ‘Where’s yer postings missus?’ you’ve been asking.
Well, I must confess, now we’re in 2009, I’ll be sloping off a bit and posting less frequently than once a day, as I have to crack on with my next book, The [...]
Your Rubbish Mission, Should You Choose to Accept it…
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged carbon footprint, composting, eco-education, gardening, Get Started with Compost, Landfill, Leftovers, Love Food Hate Waste, Plastic, Zero Waste Week on 12 December 2008 | 3 Comments »
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How To: Get Started With Composting
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, tagged beat the credit crunch, composting, Downshifting, gardening, gardens, Get Started with Compost, Landfill, Leftovers, money saving tips, Phil Gamble, Recycling, Sustainable Living on 11 December 2008 | 7 Comments »
Recently, I featured a piece by horticultural expert, lecturer and all round nice bloke, Phil Gamble…
Today Phil explains the rudimentary basics of composting, how it works and what it does.
In my opinion, wintertime is the perfect time to get a compost heap going. There are so many delicious vegetables to fill up your plates and [...]
Is There Such a Thing as a Free Lunch?
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged beat the credit crunch, Food Waste, Free Lunching, Julia Falcon, Leftovers, Love Food Hate Waste, lunches on 13 November 2008 | 10 Comments »
Or even a cheap lunch come to that?
A survey commissioned for the Love Food Hate Waste campaign suggests that British workers are shelling out £5.5bn on shop-bought lunches each year, while they leave almost the same value of perfectly good lunch foods at home to go off.
Ham, bread, cheese, cold meats and other typical sandwich [...]
How To: Get Down and Dirty Together, Creating Community Soil
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged beat the credit crunch, Cannington College, Compost Outing, composting, gardening, gardens, Get Started with Compost, horticulture, Paul Atterbury, Phil Gamble, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, The Antiques RoadShow on 12 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘Bigger, better food is waiting in your compost heap.’
I recently caught up with a delightful man and a horticultural expert, Phil Gamble.
Trained at Cannington College, Somerset in it’s heyday, Philip’s background includes two posts as Head Gardener and ten years on the lecturing staff at Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester. He’s an established freelance lecturer and [...]
Rubbish Q&A Day
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Q&A, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish products, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged ACLM, aluminium cans, Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation, Alupro, Association for Contact Lens Manufacturers, Association for Organics Recycling, beat the credit crunch, Bokashi composting, carborexics, cardboard, cellophane wrappers, Click4Carbon, Community, community projects, composting, contact lens, cornstarch bottles, DEFRA, Dig For Victory, Dollond & Aitchison, eco-education, Eco-Schools, European Tissue Symposium, Freecycle, Get Started with Compost, glass jars, incineration, Jamie Oliver, Janey Lee Grace, Junkk, Junkk.com, knitting, Knitting Help, Letters for Change, making your own clothes, oestrogen soup, organic cotton, Organic-ally, Original Organics, Patient’s Returned Medicine Scheme, pet litter, Plastic, Polymer Recycling, Recycle, Recycle Now, Recycling, Recycling Expert, recycling video tape, SCRIB, Specsavers, Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau, steel cans, sustainable family, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, The Composting Association, The Rubbish Diet, The Times, Tracey Smith, University recycling schemes, unwanted medicine, vacuum bags, VeggiePets.com, Vision Aid Overseas, W. F. Denny, Waste and Resources Action Programme, Wellway Pharmacy, WRAP, YouTube on 10 November 2008 | 15 Comments »
A quick note from Thomas:
Hi everybody and welcome to the first Book of Rubbish Ideas Q&A day. Anybody out there who wants to leave Tracey a rubbish and sustainable living related questions may do so by leaving a comment under this post and Tracey will then get busy finding an answer for you. So [...]
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