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??

I don’t understand why it is saving plastic as you could recycle the plastic lids. You mostly can’t recycle the plastic film so that goes into landfill.

We don’t have space to store even more resusable containers for all these pots. We need to keep the original packaging to retain the ingredients information. And as another poster said, half of these are so flimsy they buckle under those reusable stretchy lids.

Yes! We bought packs of reusable silicone lids that come in 3 different sizes.

It's so annoying! Took me ages to realise I hadn't thrown the lid the other day because I'd forgotten there wasn't one.

Loads of people struggle with packaging it shouldn't need declaring. It shouldn't be an exception to packaging design

I'll second that. Although it doesn't actually need a lid in my case cos it's that moreish it's gone pretty quick

Sabra has lids (and is the only hummus worth buying IMO!)

Yes, my solutions too (though I'm still annoyed by the new "designs", which surely create more food waste).

Oh the humanity!

Now imagining little people in your fridge struggling to knock things over Borrower style.

Sainsbury’s have done it too and Waitrose have a nice one made from olive oil with no lid! They go crusty so quickly, it’s horrid! I have these stretchy plastic things from ikea that are like reusable lids that are quite handy though.

It's very bloody annoying. Also this houmous is tasteless.....

That's a pain in the arse. Those hummus pots are an ideal size for me to re-use as containers with my hobby, and they last for ages. I have some that are several years old. Without lids, they will be useless, and I will have to throw them in the recycling.

I'd much rather repurpose these things than chuck them out, and I won't be able to do that any more.😡

And it went down in price, right?

Yes especially coleslaw ! Who eats a whole tub at once!
I don't want to use clingfilm either!

Yes I gave those but they don't work with plastic pots unless you put an elastic band round the top. I always think they smell a bit weird too so stopped using mine.

This!

Use masking tape to write on... cheaper too!

This is doing my head in.

2 weeks ago my Hummus from Sains had a lid. Now it doesn’t. Crazy.

We bought these op, when the yoghurt we bought stopped putting lids on:

The unlidded Sainsbury's Moroccan style houmous...
Now with a film lid you can't recycle...

It's definitely cheaper for the manufacturer.

I imagine that film is a right pain for wildlife too

IKEA ÖVERMÄTT food covers work for this

@llamali
Yes very flimsy so could easily end up blowing away before it reaches the incinerator.

I had a look in my plastic pot collection (I reuse these for batch cooking and freezing) and have found a large Greek Yoghurt pot that can contain the whole humous tub. I may need to relabel it clearly though!

This is the second thread about missing hummus lids in two days! Just put it in a Tupperware!

Whoops forgot photo
@llamali