What have they done to the humous?

[llamali]

First they messed with the minced beef now there's no lids on the humous. It's meant to be eaten within 2 days do they think I'm whacking it back in the fridge with no lid on??

Moorish still has lids but my fav Holy Moly had the annoying bit of plastic that doesn't fully come off. I end up putting clingfilm.or foil on it.

There had to better alternative than this thin plastic that doesn't even come off properly.

So now everyone just uses cling film aka disposable plastic. Which totally solves the 'less plastic' issue...

I put it inside some tupperware. Keeps fine.

I stopped buying holy moly guacamole for that reason but to be fair to them they say that's meant to be eaten in a day. I shall track down some Moorish. I usually only get that at christmas

That's what I've done but it's a matter of time before someone accidentally knocks it over in our fridge.

Which hummus? It definitely needs a lid!

Tesco. I can only imagine I'm meant to eat it all in one go

Sabra is the best and has a lid.

Ah I've seen that. Might have to switch if it tastes nice. I'm guessing as it looks a bit posher it's less watery?

Yes! Opened a Sainsbury's day before yesterday and no bloody lid!

Tried to squash the cellophane back on and slot into the sleeve but failed!
Apparently it's 30% less plastic (and probably much cheaper for them to produce now they don't have to manufacture lids, plus a lot more food waste!

@BurntBroccoli That's a good idea trying with the cardboard shame it didn't work. It might save plastic waste but it's going to make food waste. Hmpf

It’s really smooth and creamy. Tastes the closest to when I make homemade. I eat it over the course of a working week in wraps so no issues with it going off. If they don’t have that hummus, I don’t buy any!

But, if you really like the hummus, can’t you just decant into a reusable pot with a lid?

It’s not just hummus! It’s large tubs of yoghurt, coleslaw, cream…basically pretty much anything that had a plastic lid before now has a peel back piece of plastic (which doesn’t reseal!).

You can get those universal food cover things?

I just put the entire open pot into a slightly bigger pot, eg an ice cream tub.

Mind you, I save all pots with lids for fridging/freezing odds & sods. So a peel back lid means a pot goes into recycling which would otherwise be re-used...so still counter effective.

Buy reusable plastic covers !

We have the universal stretchy lids but never seem to have one exactly the right size, if they are too tight they buckle the now very thin tubs. We also don't always have plastic reusable tubs in the right sizes and my (ND) family all seem to have this thing that if it's not in it's original packaging they don't recognise it and it doesn't get used. So I find this very annoying.

I either sit a small saucer on the top or decant into a small Tupperware type tub with a lid

I haven't bought minced beef from Sainsbury's since they changed to their ridiculous packaging, absolutely awful 😑

I have lots of The Collective yogurt pots saved which are a great size for things like hummus and dip without the need to decant. Also the big pot from The Collective natural yogurt fits a regular 500g pot of yog in it.

But even they've recently switched to a flimsy lid instead of the robust ones that they used to use.

I decant things into jam jars. As soon as any food is obscured with foil in our fridge, it's like an invisibility cloak's been thrown over it.

and then everyone squeamishly ignores it until it's left to me to investigate the mould infested crime scene within

You can buy lids for these type of pots loose ( well , three or four in a pack ) out of m and s , but not always easy to track down ( or maybe try Amazon ?)
I Agree that the minced beef looks awful in those vacuum packs.

Ah no, I love the new mince packaging, takes up so much less space in the fridge and much less plastic waste (or it's recycleable if you wash it out). We have no way of recycling the old style mince plastic containers here only soft plastics.

Ah, glad to see I'm not in fact going mad! Opened a pot of houmus last night, put some on bread and then spent about 10 minutes trying to work out what I'd done with the lid!

The less plastic thing doesn't make sense to me: The lids were recyclable, whereas the film used now I presume isn't (as those sorts of thin flexible plastic normally aren't)?