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Sarah D

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 05 12:48 am Post subject:
Ashamed to say, a plastic tray that contained the button mushrooms that Mr D likes for Sunday breakfast, albeit organic grown in Suffolk mushrooms............... Now washed out and ready to go for the lavender soap (all mine...................... ) at the weekend. I reckon they should last at least a year, but plastic packaging...................oh dear.

sean
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 05 9:28 am Post subject:
Plastic packaging quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 05 10:18 am Post subject:
Hey - it got reused! Are you going to put lavender oil in for your lavender soap, or have you got handfulls of lavender drying somewhere (I've never been able to grow it!)

sean
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 05 10:20 am Post subject:
I know, I'm still amazed though.

Sarah D

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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 05 1:13 pm Post subject:
What are you amaed at? And a translation of the above, please Organic lavender oil and very very finely powdered flowers (home grown)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 05 1:14 pm Post subject:

Sarah D wrote:

And a translation of the above, please

Me too

sean
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 05 1:21 pm Post subject:
I'd always regarded Sarah as the woman least likely to buy mushrooms in plastic packaging. The Latin means even good Homer nods sometimes (can't remember the author), and roughly means that even the wisest make occasional mistakes.

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 05 1:23 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

I'd always regarded Sarah as the woman least likely to buy mushrooms in plastic packaging.

But I thought that's how they grew? Isn't the plastic part of the fruiting body?

Sarah D

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 2584

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 05 1:25 pm Post subject:

Same old problem with the organic bit - organic in packaging, or non-organic in a paper bag - in this particular outlet where I bought the mushrooms. The farm shop doesn't always have them. I do try and buy stuff in the biodegradable pakcaging which goes on to the compost heap.

I am no saint, but do try to avoid packaging where possible, and have been known to rip it all off and leave it in a heap at the checkout.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 05 12:42 pm Post subject:
I just looked at the price, and haven't bought any this week! And that was for non-orgnaic. A button mustroom box on the shopping list this week, I feel!

alison
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 05 9:11 pm Post subject:
Go for the pringles, much better!!

wellington womble

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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 05 4:45 pm Post subject:
Got to finish the packet first! No more soap till I've eaten them all! Did you get the soap out of the mould OK?

alison
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 05 9:06 pm Post subject:
Easy, The day after I made it, I just sliced the bottem off the tube, and then with the rolling pin, I pushed it through. Sliced the soap and put it away to cure.

wellington womble

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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 05 11:58 am Post subject:
That's what I wondered - I had to demolish one of my moulds to get the soap out (it was made from half a cardboard drinks carton, so wasn't too much of a loss!) I might buy a plastic dainpipe and tape a cap on so its reuseable. I can't scoff a whole tube of pringles every time I run out of soap (especially as I want to do them for pressies this year!)

alison
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 05 9:11 pm Post subject:
Put the word about, if you really can't eat that many. I have been sitting on the instructions for ages and have collected all the tubes we ahve had since then (not that many). I did try and set up a masterclass somewhere else but others thought it was inappropriate, and I had even asked the lady from country life to come and run it.

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