The ultimate guide to supermarket-free February

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Temps de lecture : 2 minutes

Supermarket-free February

What’s February without a supermarket?

“February without supermarkets” is a challenge launched a few years ago by En vert et contre toutwhich encourages people to consume differently for a month, leaving the supermarkets behind and buying from small producers in order to support them. The idea is to adopt new, more sustainable and healthier consumption habits for one month, and then to adopt them for the whole year.

5 tips for a supermarket-free February

1. Buying fruit and vegetables at the market

In addition to being mostly seasonal and of better quality, market produce helps to keep the use of plastic to a minimum. By taking your own shopping bags and containers, you can have bread, cheese, olives, fruit/vegetables, etc….. It’s also a moment of conviviality that transforms any task into a beautiful activity of the day, where you get fresh air and vitamin D.

2. Order home-delivered vegetable baskets

A very practical option for busy people who don’t have time to go to the store or the market.

A few addresses:

3. Always have bulk bags and/or containers on hand

It’s a habit to get into at first, but it quickly becomes a reflex. We no longer leave home without a collapsible shopping bag and small bulk bags for fruit/vegetables.

4. Your Tupperware goes everywhere with you

Try as much as possible to cook more in the evening, so that you have a meal ready to go to work the next day.

Healthy, cheap and zero waste: what could be better! And if not, take your tupperware to the caterer and ask him to fill it instead of using disposables 🙂

5. Cook more at home

Doing it yourself at home not only saves money and avoids the temptation of sugar-laden industrial products, it also reduces waste. So why not learn a new recipe every week/month: homemade granola, bread, vegetable milk, crackers, vegetable potato chips, candles…

Some good addresses for bulk & zero-waste grocery stores in French-speaking Switzerland:

Supermarket-free February

Consult our ineractive map to locate these addresses: https://www.lespaillettesvertes.ch/distributeurs/

-> For 5 days, we’ve been offering you 5 industrial objects on Instagram to replace with its natural, sustainable and zero-waste alternative! Take a look and suive us here 🙂

Supermarket-free February

It’s up to you now 😉

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