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??

@OatFlatWhiteForMePlease
Food condoms! 😂
Very good description!

Depends how full your fridge is, a saucer or small plate can also be used as a temporary lid?

I mix and match shop bought containers with tableware. I have assembled a lot of mismatching saucers from various giveaways/clearouts and I just cover everything with with a saucer, as another user suggested, too. That way you get the most out of your belongings, because you can use them one day as a lid to something and another day as a plate on the table; same goes for small porcelain or glass bowls.

Otherwise I also have a lot of plastic containers for freezing and taking packed for the day, which can equally be used for this.

I agree on the super flimsy lids for yoghurts, though, they often puncture too fast.

That people are too squeamish / particular to eat anything opened and decanted or without original wrapper shows that there is a surplus of food in many households anyways (ND aside).

The move away from extreme plastic packaging should have happened decades ago; I can't believe it took so long. Google pictures of the garbage islands floating in the sea or where the "exported" plastic lands on landfills in poorer countries and people live in houses built on these "mountains".

You might use extra water on washing up a few more pieces, but there is (clean) water and energy saved in not producing these things in the first place and later not poisoning the land and sea in landfills.

A proper recycling scheme would work best if you'd could connect many places to it. That would mean all manufacturers use the same type of pot for the same type of product. You could return them like the bottle recycling.
I don't know about the UK but in some countries all brands use the same glass bottle for mineral water and lemonade, and only put their own labels and tops on it. Then you can return them at all points of sale regardless of brand and they go back in the cycle.
Some chains are trying this with the coffee cups, too.

The reason there are 10877774333 forms of plastic packaging is that brands want to differentiate from each other; they want identifiable forms of packaging and it helps their brand. If they could agree on a few universal forms and sizes, it would make establishing a recycling cycle much easier. In the long run it would only work with glass, though, as the plastics cannot be reused forever like glass.

Yes foil lids would work fine - something like Gu ones. They could make them with a few "wings" around the edge so you could hook them back round the tub.
I expect the cost would be more than the unrecyclable plastic though...

You sir/madam are a GENIUS

This.

We buy the Sainsbury’s one every week. We used to recycle the lid along with the pot so I’m not sure how adding a non recyclable piece of plastic is helping tne environment.

Aldis hummus has proper lids and tastes good too. Not watery.

The only plastic recycle are plastic bottles with lids in our area. All other plastic goes into the waste bin. Apparently they incinerate the waste though and then it into energy. But still. We can do paper and card as well. Not no soft plastics and no hard plastics that aren’t bottle shaped.

This has really irritated me, it's on loads of things as others have said. I annoyed because you could at least recycle the old style lids, the peel back type get put into landfill so it's not as environmentally friendly.
I bought some silicone lids on amazon. Which at least stop things get split in the fridge

Aluminium foil ?

Sabra & Ramonas Heavenly Houmous Jalapeño are my fave shop bought houmous’ and these both have lids too!

I find the Ikea plastic kids bowls good for this too, they fit a range of diameters when upturned.

I did exactly the same! Even moaned at the rest of the family for throwing away the lid when they knew we'd not finished the hummus... feel slightly guilty now! Glad I wasn't the only one to not "spot the difference" 😅

Slightly ot but why does Sainsbury's houmous always looks so battered?? Don't think I've ever bought houmous from there that didn't look like it'd been fired out of a cannon.

Coleslaw too has that plastic film. Ridiculous 😤

Yep, it is a sight to behold !

Yes!

I'm veggie, so can't comment on the mince. But, totally agree about hummus! I got some hummus and bread and other stuff from the co-op for a makeshift picnic lunch yesterday. The lack of lid meant I either had to eat it all in one go, somehow store it in a bag, or waste some. Before, I could have put the lid back on, and it would have been fine for a couple of hours or so before I could get it in a fridge.
I'm an environmentalist, and single use plastic is awful, and plastic recycling is a fraud; but I actually think, in this case, that extra plastic wasn't pointless like packaging often is. I think more hummus will end up in people's bins, and food waste is worse environmentally. I rarely waste food, and opted for the put in a bag solution; but it made a bit of a mess. Bring back the lid!

Our (small) fridge is always packed, we used to do the saucer over a bowl thing pre DCs but now they would just get knocked off by someone trying to get something out from behind. Don't want to waste space by putting pots in bigger pots either plus there's the invisibility cloak effect. I try and minimise plastic waste, get milk in reusable glass from the milkman, unwrapped fruit and veg etc, but this is annoying. The stretchy lids work for some things but not all.

"invisibility cloak effect" god only knows how many times that has happened in my fridge!

Ah. Middle class problems 😂😂😂

I'm not middle class! Hummus is classless these days! Though I guess it depends where you get it from? Waitrose hummus is probably much more middle class than most! Tbh it's partly because I'm on such a budget that I need the lid - I can't afford to waste the stuff!

Middle classes make their own, surely? Shop bought is non-U.

(I’m common as muck, at least by background, and do both)

I've got reusable silicone cover things but I'll give you a humous tip: Ramona's. Especially the jalapeño one. Comes in a lovely sturdy pot with a lid.