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Reducing Waste at Sea: Snacks

Fancy a little distraction? I've decided to show you some of the steps that we took to reduce our environmental footprint as much as possible during last year's La Solitaire du Figaro

Now more than ever we all need to think about what we buy, where it comes from and where is goes afterwards.

Snacks can be difficult to choose; they need to give us lots of calories while at the same time being tough enough to bang around the boat for a couple of days and stay fresh.

This means that we can quickly get lazy when shopping and buy things that are triple wrapped in single use plastic, things that I wouldn't normally eat on land. So why do differently at sea? It took a bit of searching.

I found this fantastic chocolate called Grain de Sail, which is manufactured in Morlaix. Its raw materials (green coffee and cocoa in particular) come mainly from the Caribbean and Central America and are sourced equitably. The company are building their own sailing boat in order to transport the raw materials under sail! Their packaging is made entirely of paper and to top it all off it is very, very good!

On top of the chocolate I also brought fruits were bought in bulk and kept in small Tupperware boxes. I do the same thing with cold meats and portions of cheese all from the local market or supermarket.

Sacrifices: Babybel, Snickers and penguin bars!
What I saved: About a small bin bag full of single use plastic packaging.
Shopping list: Lots and lots of reusable Tupperware!

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