Where have the houmous lids gone??

I was frustrated by this too as dips tend to last a few days in our house! I’ve started using these reusable lids I found on Amazon. They fit perfectly on supermarket dips - Happy Lids https://amzn.eu/d/ayasQG8

@Arlanymor I've got those silicone lids. They're really good-except I keep losing them🤦🏻‍♀️

Agreed about the lack of lids on tubs these days though; a few weeks ago I was attacked by an already opened tub of Guacamole which jumped off the fridge shelf as I opened the door .Because there was no second line of defence -ie a lid-I ended up wearing most of it 🫤

I get mine from Lidl , M & S or Morrisons now. Stopped shopping at Sainsbury’s a while back due to them having no tills on when I did quite a big shop. Plus prices were getting ridiculous.

Don't most people just take bags without paying?

I questioned humanity's progress the other day as I gaffer taped the fucking lid shut on a pot of yogurt.

…and then we all started buying plastic bin liners by the roll, instead of getting at least a dozen uses out of a free, light, compact, foldable carrier bag, before using it to pack cookery ingredients, or shoes, or dirty laundry, then finally using it as a bin bag!

It’s probably because of the new Extended Producer Responsibility tax. Manufacturers have to pay a new levy on all the packaging which ends up in household waste bins. The less packaging they use, the less tax they have to pay, and the lower the price of the item.

They're just taking the piss now. All these corporations shit all over the planet churning out warehouses full of frankenfood wrapped in plastic, then come over all preachy Thunberg about a lid to keep cream fresh.

Hummus recipe

Note: this is made without tahini. It's probably better with it, but I haven't got around to working out the amount needed yet. So feel free to try adding tahini to your preferred taste!

1 tin chick peas (drained)
2 tbsp water (can use stuff from chick pea tin)
3 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp olive oil
1 garlic clove
1/2 flat tsp salt
1/2 flat tsp cumin powder

Whizz it up in a blender.
Once it's in the storage container I sprinkle powdered paprika over the top to look fancy and add a bit more flavour!
I also prefer it refrigerated cos I guess that's what we've got used to with shop bought ones.

It’s about recycling apparently. But it’s fucking ridiculous to make a product worse!

Yes a noticed a couple of months ago ASDA was doing this, so annoying, then yesterday I opened a packet and spent a few min looking for the lid to put it back in the fridge, then remembered there isn't one, I stuffed it back in the cardboard sleeve, but it won't last as long even in the fridge. If you go for a picnic it really doesn't work, I'd just chuck it rather than get it allover the bag taking it home. Bring the lids back, cling film is a pain!!

Or buy Ramonas - it’s much nicer than Sainsbury’s!

You need to decant it into Tupperware

Agree yanbu it is infuriating. I expect it has shaved 1p off the cost of a pot of houmous though.

Fortunately not all houmous suppliers have done this and the pots are often the same size from different suppliers, so we now keep a stash of houmous lids that get washed up and kept for using with the next pot rather than being recycled.

Same with the dip lids…. It’s frustrating, some things NEED lids!

Similar but not the same, is the problem.

Beggars belief that they say it's for environmental reasons - the hummus is in fucking plastic. It's just more arseache for customers. And waste. As for the special sunbeam who decided to take the lids off cream, if they ever make themselves known to me I will kill them with my bare fucking hands, the stupid cream-wasting fuck.

Anyway, sabra hummus has lids. Lidl deluxe coleslaw also has lids.

Where sells cream with lids?

Waitrose hummus has lids.

I'm puzzled why this is a issue though. A pot of hummus lasts about ten seconds in our house.

Lidl coleslaw has lids. I like their cheese coleslaw.

It’s very annoying. Maybe learn to make it? It take 2 minutes in a food processor or blender. If you keep in chickpeas, garlic, olive oil, salt and tahini you can make it any time.

I haven’t rtft, but Moopops are great for this!

I have name changed in honour of this post, which is spot on.

I also end up throwing more dried out old hummus away and buying more which I'm sure is good for the supermarket profits but definitely not the environment.

I sometimes put the entire hummus pot in a plastic bag, which again isn't really good for the environment, not compared to hard plastic.

So many "environmental" initiatives just make every normal person's life that little bit harder / more expensive whilst having no to negative real impact on the environment. I'm fairly sure the plastic film is more environmentally unfriendly than the hard lid.

And yes, people in the US don't think about this at all. They don't care, we're pissing into the wind with this stuff. It is irritating, YADNBU OP.

Moo pops from Amazon… silicone lids that fit most big yoghurt pots and humous - game changer 😅 decanting leftovers into other pots is a faff and seems to reduce the shelf life of the product imo. The moopops are great, and I guess will cut down on single use plastic. you need tk experiment a bit with the sizes. But the do one specifically for humous

YANBU
I love Houmous. Take it to work then realise I can't transport safely home.
Simple pleasures in life are important and the lid gate is a nuisance

^ This. I've always found another use for them and they last ages.