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10 Zero-Waste Snacks for Kids (and Those Who Feed Them)

Posted on June 11, 2019by The Zero-Waste Chef

zero-waste snacks for kids: kombucha and popcorn

Fill little bellies, not big garbage bags, with these healthy and simple zero-waste snacks for kids.

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Some of the tools in my zero-waste shopping kit, filled with staples from the bulk bins.
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My daughter MK and I sewed the cloth bags—most of them years ago. We made four of these out of old sheets, one from my fabric stash (middle row, left) and one from new fabric (top row, right) that MK bought in 2011 to sew bags to give to friends and family for Christmas that year. My bag is still in service! They last for years. .
The jars came from restaurants MK worked in over the years. Each of these giant jars holds over six cups. When you fill up the bulk bins with jars, be sure that the jar has the tare (the weight) marked on it. The cashier will deduct the tare from the total weight of the food-filled jar when ringing you up. This way you pay only for the weight of the food in the jar and not the weight of the jar.
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Speaking of paying, except for the one bag MK made, this zero-waste shopping gear cost us nothing. This frugality leaves me with more money for good chocolate to put in the free jars... well maybe not one of these huge free ones, maybe a free jam jar’s worth of chocolate 😉😋
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According to @nrdc_org, up to 40 percent of the food we produce in the US goes uneaten. One reason? Most supermarkets refuse to carry cosmetically challenged fruits and vegetables, which means many of them end up rotting in landfill where, cut off of oxygen, they release methane gas, a green-house gas more potent than carbon dioxide.
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At the farmer’s market, you’ll find lots of wonky produce—very small, very large, oddly shaped, scarred—because that’s how food grows. And some vendors offer a discount for “ugly” organic produce.
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I bought a bunch of these not-so-pretty apples on the weekend to make a fruit crumble with granola-like topping this week. Just doing my part 😉
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Word of the day!
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precycle [ pree-sahy-kuhl ] verb
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to eliminate or reduce waste by avoiding the purchase of products packaged in excessive materials that must be recycled, landfilled or incinerated
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The most effective way to reduce waste is to prevent it from entering your home, school or workplace in the first place when possible 👍
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