• Home
  • About
  • Birds
  • Bread
  • Cakes and Cookies
  • Chocolate Making
  • Chocolate Making II
  • Chooks
  • Christmas
  • Fabulous Food
  • Family & Friends
  • Frugal Living
  • Homemade
  • In My Kitchen
  • In Our Garden
  • Jams, Preserves & Sauces
  • Musings
  • My Cool Things
  • Savoury
  • Suppliers
  • Sydney
  • Waste Reduction Plan
  • Pandemic Posts 2020

Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

Living well in the urban village

Feeds:
Posts
Comments
« A Month of Waste-Free Meals
Old Things »

Rethinking Christmas Packaging

December 2, 2020 by Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

 

We’re trialing our upcycled Christmas gift packaging!

This year, we’ll be giving away cookies in these noodle boxes from Reverse Garbage. They were donated surplus packaging and I bought a stack of 50 for $5…

I’ve lined them with rescued sandwich paper and filled with two sorts of cookies, wrapped in misprinted food safe paper and ribbon offcuts, both of which were diverted from landfill to Reverse Garbage…

And I added Charley Harper stickers for decoration – pretty happy with how it all looked!

We like to give small, homemade gifts to family and friends – putting them together has been a tradition for Pete and I for over 30 Christmases now.

I wrote a post about it in 2009 (the very first year of this blog), and if you’d like more festive gift ideas, check out our Christmas page! ♥

Share this:

  • Email
  • Tweet

Like this:

Like Loading...

Posted in Food & Friends, Frugal Living, green living | 8 Comments

8 Responses

  1. on December 2, 2020 at 6:28 am Susan

    How lucky to get those boxes and ‘misprinted’ paper. One man’s (woman’s) junk and another’s treasure. YEA for you.


  2. on December 2, 2020 at 6:54 am Manuela

    Very nicely wrapped gifts!


  3. on December 2, 2020 at 7:13 am marilynscottwaters

    Love this! <3


  4. on December 2, 2020 at 10:46 am Pauline

    Great ideas, and I like to use more brown paper and recycled ribbons if I can. Reverse Garbage is a wonderful resource for you.


  5. on December 2, 2020 at 11:11 am Lyn H

    Thanks so much, visited Chefs Warehouse on your recommendation, the staff was really helpful . Also took some rice and lentils to donate to the Food Pantry, came away with a loaf of bread- so good and Nutella- so yum.
    I love your site, makes me smile and gives me hope. About to make the mini Christmas cakes. Kind regards
    Lyn


  6. on December 3, 2020 at 7:45 am lifeofanearthmuffin

    I was placing an order on Lush the other day and they have cute reusable fabric wrapping cloths – such a great way to avoid single use!
    Jenna ♥
    Stay in touch? Life of an Earth Muffin


  7. on December 9, 2020 at 1:49 pm Maddy O'Shea

    Just Love You Celia!! xx


  8. on December 10, 2020 at 6:15 pm Naomi

    I love Reverse Garbage, always come home with lots to reuse.



Comments are closed.

  • Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

  • Follow @celiafigjam
  • Recent Posts

    • Making Zokin
    • Curry Puff Pastry
    • Hiatus
    • The Glass Lid
    • Denim Revisited
    • Vegan World Peace Cookies
    • Here Be Chickens!
    • A Tale of Two $2 Quilts
    • Daily Quaft Therapy
    • A Repaired Tea Bowl
  • Categories

  • Archives

  • © All text and photos are copyright 2009 - 2023 Fig Jam and Lime Cordial. All rights reserved. Please ask first.

    Protected by Copyscape

Blog at WordPress.com.

WPThemes.


  • Follow Following
    • Fig Jam and Lime Cordial
    • Join 14,063 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Fig Jam and Lime Cordial
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Copy shortlink
    • Report this content
    • View post in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

  • Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
    To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • %d bloggers like this: