When you click on the icon for Facebook, Google+, or Twitter, a new window will appear from that service asking you to log in and approve. This will open the comment form in full and allow you to reply using your social media accounts. Localiscious (eating seasonal) #lovefoodhatewaste #zerowaste #butterwrapper #plasticfree #reuseparchmentpaper #foodwastegirl #baking #homemade #Grexy #reallifeĪ post shared by Tammy Logan on at 10:23pm PDTĭid you know you can leave comments on my blog using your social media accounts? To enable social media logins, click anywhere in the comment form on a post, then click on “Change” (next to the “Log Out” prompt). I love this reuse idea because my muffin tray is a pain in the butt to clean if I don't line it! Once the muffins have been eaten the parchment paper goes in my compost. I lined the muffin tray with the parchment paper my butter comes wrapped in. I find glass and stainless steel cookware clean really well and we can use butter or oil to grease pans followed by a sprinkling of flour to create a non-stick surface.Īnd here are the over-ripe banana muffins headed for the oven. These wrappers are not recyclable or compostable, though.įinally, we probably don’t need to use parchment paper as often as we do. If you buy butter wrapped in a composite material like foil and paper laminate and don’t want to switch brands, you may be able to reuse them in place of foil for baked potatoes or basting roast meats. I certainly don’t know too many people who do it now and this might be partly due to changing dietary information. You might be thinking that’s not a problem for me because I compost my baking paper (so it doesn’t go to landfill), but think about all the resources that went into making the baking paper that you’re now conserving by not using it.Īnecdotally, reusing butter wrappers seems to have been a popular practice before butter appeared on the shelves in plastic tubs and composite material wrappers because people often say to me that this is something their mothers used to do. Just fold the wrappers and keep them in a jar or container in the fridge until you’re ready to use them.īy reusing the wrapper you’re not introducing new rubbish into the waste stream.

use the small bits of remaining butter to grease pans.

separate layers of food like patties in the freezer, and as a bonus.

You can use the butter wrappers just like you would use baking paper, to: Reusing parchment butter wrappers instead of using new parchment baking paper is one thrifty life hack you should know about.

Thrifty life hacks which are good for the environment excite me because they save money and waste and are simple, quick and easy to implement.

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