Now I am not a crazy gardener, I have very little skill, but I try my best. I have orchids, succulants, spikey plants, soft plants, lavender and other smelly plants, pretty plants like lilly pillies, ugly plants with thorns, difficult plants like pumpkin and easy plants like tomato. And lots of weed

I don't pamper myself much. And in the past I have always had bad experiences with face masks because I feel like they are burning my skin off. May be that is just how they are meant to feel. Can't say I'm a fan. But because my acne can get quite bad, I do use them sometimes. There are a few main in

Turns out I can't eat 800g of strawberries by myself. So before they went gross I preserved them as delicious jam. This is be grandmas recipe. Strawberries 250g 3/4 cup of sugar (if you want it less sweet, just use less sugar) 1/4 lemon (juice) Cut and mash the strawberries. Add sugar. Boil and k

One of the last zero-waste swaps that I needed to make was moisturiser. Now was probably still not the right time as I still have like 1L of sorbelene and still half a bottle of face moisturiser. But a random lady on the internet was selling a pot of aloe vera for like $1 so I brought the thing and

Ok I am going to attempt to give you the most comprehensive guide to recycling that I possible can. Bearing in mind that this should be the last resort for being zero-waste. I'm also only going to consider things here that are not organic because anything organic cannot be recycled at all, but can b

Ok, so the first image here is basically identical to a previous image I had, however, this time it is homemade!! Courtesy of my friend Caroline who gave me the recipe, I have finally given it a crack. I just hope it works. 1cup washing soda ($7 ish a kilo) 1cup of bi carb (cheap as) grate the

I love giving fresh produce bags as birthday/Christmas presents. Everyone always says that they are so handy. Mine are about to celebrate their 1st birthday!! Never again will I go back. In 1 year we have only used like 1 fresh produce bag and that was in an emergency. Mine are mad of recycled plast

After coming home, unfortunately I had a fridge of food that needed to be thrown. I'm not sure what James did the past 2 weeks, but there were a lot of veggies, bread, cheese etc that needed chucking that were there when I left. So I was a bit sad that I had to deal with that, but I thought about

I love it when the haul looks amazing. You may be wondering about the m&ms. My bulk food shop has them for some reason, and they didn't have mini chocolate chips, so that was my solution. I also don't mind not having matching containers. I just use literally whatever I have. This haul came i

Ok. So I'm not vegan. But I thought I would give this one a go. The recipe I used was this one https://simpleveganblog.com/how-to-make-oat-milk/ Now I must say, home made oat milk tastes like wet oats. However! I think it could work with my smoothies, where I add honey and banana, yoghurt and so

So I had this candle that was getting to the end of its life. But all I could see was opportunity. I burnt the candle for as long as it would go, and then I poured the remaining wax into a smaller glass jar to make a smaller candle. But NOW I HAVE ANOTHER GLASS JAR! (James looks at me blankly). I

This is James' Grandma's recipe. 3 small chillis 3 capsicums 1 cup vinegar 3/4 cup sugar Finely chop the chilli's and capsicum. Simmer/boil for 15-20 minutes with vinegar until mushy (use potato masher if necessary or food processor) add sugar to thicken and simmer for another 10-15 minutes.

I love my changeable-head wooden dish scrubber! From biome! I also love my reusable food covers! No cling wrap in this household!

1 part Self-raising flour 1 part Greek yoghurt It is that simple! Mix it in a bowl and then kneed into whatever you need for a pizza dough. We also use this for garlic bread and for sour dough replacement.

I cannot stress this enough. Your money talks! When we invest in something we are sending a message that we value that product. Same goes with our banking, our insurance, our superannuation and our utilities. These decisions can't be taken lightly and proper financial advice needs to be sought. Bu

Originally, my deodorant recipe was great. But I found a few problems with it. 1. I was still sometimes stinky especially after dancing. 2. I was getting this white powder on my clothes from the shae butter. So, my original recipe included arrowroot powder, coconut oil, shae butter and essentia

Sometimes the things we make don’t look amazing, but they taste so goooood! 😋😋😋 To make my generic cookie recipe zero-waste this is what I do 1. Make sure my sugar and flour is bought in bulk in my glass jars. 2. My eggs come from a local to reduce food mileage (or if vegan, I believe you

This holidays I wanted to experiment more with native foods. Unfortunately, any native stuff that can be found locally is well packaged. The wattle-seed that I got from nannas pantry was in a plastic package, same with the instant yeast. And the wattle-seed was $21 for the small amount I used. Howev

It has been a little while since I posted, but I am very excited about this recent purchase. I have been somewhat visually challenged for several years now and I wear glasses all the time. Glasses are expensive, they are often made plastic, you use them for a short time and if you have a certain pre

I had to buy a new white Cami. I used to have 3, but they were all over 5 years (one was over 10 years) old and were literally falling apart. But I wanted something that wasn't going to have any plastic in it. You are probably like, you could just buy a cotton one, and that is true, but I believe

This Lent has been a pretty big rough patch for me. But I wanted to celebrate how far I have come in a year today. This yoghurt maker is a present that mum got me and James for our engagement (even though James hates yoghurt). I eat yoghurt everyday. I have it in smoothies or in fruit. And it was

One of my students competed in the lions youth of the year comp and she did a talk about minimalism!! This is her speech below, I am so blown away by this young woman and how amazing she is. She is so inspirational and we regularly discuss natural and alternative ways of doing things. God Bless her

So James said to me the other day 'hey Alice, can I please buy 5kg of Nutella'... I obviously said no, but I accepted the challenge instead. The recipe I used was https://minimalistbaker.com/4-ingredient-nutella-vegan-gf/ I didn't use dark chocolate because I had some leftover from a student th

You will need: 3 bobby pins 1 old plastic bag The way I put it on is like doing a towel turban, but with the bag. The hardest part are the handles. and I just pin in place with bobby pins.

Its Halloween and by pure coincidence only, I'm making pumpkin seed snacks. We had soup yesterday. I dried them over night and tonight I made them. This is the recipe I use. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/152418/caramelized-spicy-pumpkin-seeds/?internalSource=hub%20recipe&referringId=969&referr

I've been so excited for this to come out! The recycling scheme is about to hit QLD and I'm so excited to get recycling done right!! Check out this link for places to recycle and what you can and can't https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/pollution/management/waste/recovery/reduction/container-refun

Here is what you'll need! 1/2 cup of citric acid 1 cup bi carb soda essential oil (whatever you feel, I like lavender) witch hazel Grab a bowl. Put the dry stuff in it first. Drop in TONNES of oil. Remember it dilutes in the water, so the stringer the better. Spray and mix in the switch haz

Bamboo toothbrushes are a must! I dread to think of all the small pieces of plastic from dental floss that have ended up in our oceans. Cue tips can also be bamboo! There are also reusable ones on the market as well!

I love my bee-keeping friend. They let me bring back my honey container and get it refilled whenever I want with fresh honey!