Leftovers

One of the big single use plastic items that gets used in this house is clingfilm. We almost always have a couple of bowls/plates covered in cling film in our fridge – a bowl of tuna & mayonaise from D1 making herself a tuna sandwich, one tin of tuna is alway too much for one sandwich; a half onion left from making dinner; leftover pizza from Friday pizza night.

Even though we try, as much as possible, to store leftovers in reusable plastic tubs inevitably there are occasions when you can’t find a suitable tub so the cling film comes out. So this week I looked into alternatives and came across ‘Cling Cloth‘ so I ordered some. I bought a Variety pack, 3 cloths in various sizes , and a Bread Wrap. They arrived this week, packaged in a cardboard envelope package and I’ve been using them for the last couple of days.

Cling Cloths are organic cotton cloths infused with beeswax, jojoba and pine resin. They are natural, re-usable and, at the end of their life, compostable. I have found them incredibly easy to use – in comparison to cling film which is, nearly always, a nightmare clinging to itself and nothing else! The cloth moulds around anything and sticks to itself in place. I have used it so far to cover bowls full of leftover guacamole and salsa from Saturday night’s fajitas (saved dirtying another container by transferring them from the bowls they were made and served in to plastic container thus reducing washing up!) and to wrap half an onion which was left from making the salsa.

All these stayed wonderfully fresh, the cloth does not seemed to have retained any lingering onion odour from the half onion, they were easy to wash afterwards and folded neatly to pack away and use for next time.

I will report again later in the year as to how they have held up to repeated use.