Tag: herbs

Sainsbury’s brings free herbs and spices to the North East of England to help increase diversity and flavour in diets

Stuart Mitchell

New research from Sainsbury’s reveals that over half of people (53%) in the North East who are struggling to afford food admit to finding mealtimes bland, with two in five saying they have lost the joy in mealtimes and are no longer excited by food (41%). On a mission to improve this, Sainsbury’s has launched the UK’s first ever Seasonings Shuttle service, an initiative that offers free herbs and spices to users at mobile food clubs, run by The Bread and Butter Thing. This comes as over two thirds (68%)…

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Growing green: Asda herbs go plastic-free

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced it will be launching a supermarket first – a range of plastic-free living herbs. All of Asda’s living herbs, which are currently sold in a plastic pot with a plastic wrap, will be moving into a new, more sustainable container called a ‘plug’. The plastic wrap will also be replaced by a paper sleeve to protect the herbs, making the entire product plastic-free, which will save 45.6 tonnes of plastic each year. Shamma Mohammed, Category Planning Manager for Produce said: “As a team we’ve worked really hard…

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