Easter is approaching. Children - and not only - are getting ready to receive sweets, candies and the classic eggs. Supermarkets offer gift ideas with shiny packaging, but unfortunately often very little ecological. If you are thinking of moving towards greener thoughts, here are some ideas to reduce packaging and waste and to test yourself with the do-it-yourself. Savings are also guaranteed.
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La Easter approaches. Children - and not only - are getting ready to receive sweets, candies and the classic eggs. Supermarkets offer gift ideas with shiny packaging, but unfortunately often very little ecological. If you are thinking of orienting yourself towards gods little thoughts more green, here are some ideas to reduce packaging e waste and to test yourself with the do-it-yourself. Savings are also guaranteed.
Do these things yourself
First you might think about recovering those roads and vimini that you already own and that lie unused in some corner of your home. What better way to reuse them than to turn them into gift baskets? In any case, it is not necessary to use a real wicker basket. They are also suitable boxes and containers in cardboardin woodin tin or in others recyclable materials that may seem fit for purpose. The watchwords are: recycling e fantasy, which you will have to use to embellish the chosen container according to your taste.
To fill your baskets with a careful eye on the environment, avoid the decorations in plastic. For the bottom of the baskets you could use some straw and decorate the edges with gods fresh or dried flowers. Or you can make strips of paper by cutting out the pages of old newspapers. Nobody forbids you to use it too fresh leaves and veri strands of grass.
Make the contents of the baskets at home or, if you decide to buy sweets, candies and chocolates and you have to prepare various gifts, choose family-size packs, to reduce packaging. Otherwise, you might think about making gods cookies of shortcrust pastry using the classic Easter molds (bunnies, bells) and of paint alcune eggs in a completely natural way. How? Just cook the eggs for fifteen minutes in water that you have previously boiled for a long time by adding a tablespoon of vinegar and, at your choice according to the desired color: coffee for brown, Red wine for the purple, spinach for green.
You can also think about replacing sweets with del ecological toys o Wood like puzzles and trains, or with some tools for the gardening suitable for the little ones, accompanied by pots and seeds to plant and cultivate. Another idea is to make gods baskets completely edibles, as illustrated by the following prescription.
Greedy baskets
Ingredients
- 12 cupcakes (single portion mini cakes)
- Jelly candies and sugar bonbons
- Royal icing (obtained by beating 450 gr. Of icing sugar and two egg whites)
- Dehydrated coconut flakes
- Green food coloring
- Licorice wheels to make the handles
- Satin ribbons of various colors to decorate
Method
1. First coat each cupcake with royal icing. Then cut twelve strips of licorice of suitable length to form handles, fold them in an arch one by one and fix the ends to the edges of each cupcake.
2. Pour the coconut flakes into one stainless steel bowl. Gradually add the green food coloring, mixing carefully to distribute the color well.
3. Place a pinch of coconut flakes on each cupcake and place some candies on top.
4. Made with colored gods ribbon decorative bows to be applied to the handles of your baskets.
5. You can give the baskets as a gift or use them as a place card for the Easter lunch.
Marta Albè
