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This is a tried-and-true tip to help reduce all the paper and plastic waste that goes into food packaging. We’re referring to bulk food stores where you scoop and bag your own. The simple thin plastic bags from these stores are recyclable and are a much better choice than the mixes of plastic, metal, foil and paper packages that so many food products are sold in. Even when you’re dealing with recyclable materials, less is always better.

What can you buy at a bulk food store? My goodness, it might be easier to list things they don’t carry. A good-sized store should have:

Baking ingredients - flour, sugar, salt, chocolate chips, baking soda etc.

Breakfast cereals, Granola, Pasta

Beans, Soup mixes

Cookies - brand names and generic

Coffee - beans or ground

Tea - loose or bagged

Spices - ground or whole

Pet food and treats,

Dried fruit

Nuts - roasted, raw, salted, flavored

Candy - wrapped, loose, hard, gummy and anything else

Liquid products - honey, syrups, nut butters