Christmas Dinners! 🍽

I was reading The Week Junior (which I recommend) a few days ago and saw something about a 'Christmas Tinner' which, as I read, told me had 'nine layers of food squished in a tin - including turkey, gravy, two mince pies, cranberry sauce and potatoes.' Now these tins are sold for gamers who are too lazy or 'into their game' to even get up and enjoy a meal with their family! While I read this, I actually couldn't believe it, it was making me just so... annoyed and angry🤦‍♀️. Please, please just get up and enjoy a nice home cooked meal with your family on Christmas day!

Now, I just had to say that. Carrying on.....

I'm going to talk about microwavable meals, ready meals, processed food. I don't think anyone I know eats these on Christmas day but I know some who just eat them in general. Setting aside the fact they are unhealthy, these meals you buy in shops have a load of waste coming with them.

If you look it up, you will see that actually most ready meal plastic goes to landfill because it is in black packaging! What I mean, is that the machines that sort the recycling and the landfill things cannot detect the black packaging on the black conveyor belt and sorts it into landfill. However, to change this, machines in the UK will test a new black pigment that should spot black plastic trays ✔. But I'm not saying that doing this means that you can still buy ready meals, just recycle them after. Still try and cut down on those a tiny bit. 🙂

Thanks for reading, and come back next week for a (hopefully) New Year's themed one! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!

Violet
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