German food packing

As I keep harping on about, the Germans are quite proud of their recycling and deposit system. Nevertheless, they work hard for reduced plastic consumption and are often very anti-plastic.

It's such hypocrisy that it hurts your eyes, ears and nose... and toe..

(then I have to apologize in this post.. the layout seems to have lived a life of its own)

I took a stroll through our local Supermarket and decided to look at what we had to choose from.

How about a 10-pack of bread? Where each piece of bread is individually wrapped in plastic?

15g baking powder...

An example of totally unnecessary disposable packaging. Baking powder and vanilla sugar etc. 15g of baking powder therefore corresponds to about 3 teaspoons. Also sold in 10-packs and is of course wrapped in plastic.

This is not a picnic yogurt...

This is our most common yogurt on the breakfast table. A plastic package with a full 500g for home consumption.

If everyone in our family is to have a small portion, it's gone all at once. Nor can it be compressed very well like the text tetrapack.
But the cover is still paper. So it's something after all. After all, it is Bio (=organic).

(Here we apparently made a jump down in the formatting for some reason)

Buying meat in Germany can be an experience in itself.. Single packs or even duo packs dominate the counters. Now the Germans are a little more fond of their meat and cheese dishes instead. I, who am fond of pinching and looking a bit at the goods I buy, am not so fond of the meat counters. But you can argue that you might be saving some plastic after all.

But you lose it completely in all other packaging. Then they are also usually pre-marinated and who wants that?...

If you run into discount stores such as Aldi, Lidl, etc., you can actually find larger packages. Then we have here the German version of their HUGE packaging. L will not do here, but it should be an XXL pack instead! So 1kg.