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22Mar

Everything you need to know about the single-use plastic ban

What's the single-use plastic ban? The UK government has banned single-use plastic items, such as plates and cups, in England. The Financial Times reports Environmental Secretary Thérèse Coffey's plans to phase out single-use plastic items and replace them with more sustainable alternatives, including reusable packaging such as our Tamper Evident containers and Top-Seal trays. What one-time-use plastic products are banned? Many people assume the ban on single-use plastic packaging applies to all plastic products, but this is incorrect. The ban currently only...

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24Oct

How To Beat The Cost of Living With Sensible Meal Preparation And Food Storage

As food prices continue to rise, more and more people are looking at ways to manage their household spending on food. Cooking from scratch and limiting ready meals and takeaways is one measure. Cooking at home in bulk is another. This actually saves time by allowing you to cook and freeze several identical or similar dishes at once. You can also take advantage of discounts and special offers on products in the supermarket. Batch cooking Freezing leftovers is one thing but batch...

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24Oct

Get Ready For Halloween With A Range Of Quality Plastic Containers

Halloween is a time for confectionary and sweet treats whether you’re running a local event in your community or school or have a hospitality or food service business. Large plastic buckets are the way to go to store and display your products providing a safe and secure home for chocolates, cakes and biscuits. Quality and Versatile Our plastic containers are high quality and 100% leak-free, liquid tight and secure so whether it’s spooky chocolate gifts or a witch’s brew, the contents will...

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18Aug

What is Heat Sealing and How is It Used to Preserve Food?

In the food industry, heat sealing is the process of packaging food products in a sealed container by applying heat and pressure to a plastic film. It is an effective way of protecting food from bacteria or mould and preserves it for longer. In fact, it is one of the main ways to preserve food. Heat sealing methods There are three main approaches to heat sealing foods, depending on the production need: Manual heat sealing is used for small-scale food packages. The...

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18Aug

Meal Prep: What Are the Benefits?

It’s easy to see the benefit of meal prep. If you work full-time, by the time you get home from a long day at work, you don’t always want to spend ages cooking a big meal. Often, you just want to put your feet up, relax, and watch Netflix. With meal prep, you can prepare a big batch of food in advance, saving you time from having to cook every time you want to eat. There are two main approaches to...

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11Jul

Everything You Wanted to Know About Ice Cream

Ice cream is a sweet frozen food that is typically eaten either as a dessert or a snack. It tends to be made from milk or cream and is sweetened either with sugar or an alternative and flavoured with fruit or a spice such as vanilla or cocoa. Stabilisers and food colouring are also often added.   A brief history of ice cream The first known version of something similar to ice cream was eaten in China around 618-907 CE. This was a...

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11Jul

Cockles and Potted Shrimp: Two Types of Seafood You Might Not Have Considered

What are potted shrimp? A traditional British seafood dish, potted shrimp originated in Lancashire in the North West of England. Although any small shrimp can be used, they are traditionally made with small brown shrimps caught in Morecambe Bay. They are boiled, shelled, and mixed with clarified butter and spices.   How to prepare potted shrimp The preparation should start the day before by melting the butter in a saucepan on low heat and adding nutmeg and cayenne pepper. Then add the shrimp, stir...

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28Jun

Top Seal is the most common method of packaging

Top seal or heat sealing is probably the most common method of packaging and presenting food products. The method comprises the use of a base container and a compatible lidding film which is applied to the former by means of a ‘Heat Sealing Machine’ . The use of a relatively thin and inexpensive film obviously does away with the need for a much more expensive ‘pre-formed lid’ and most importantly it ensures a 100% leak proof seal which is not guaranteed...

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14Apr

Why Every Food Supplier Needs Tamper Evident Containers

A well-packaged product is key for any food business looking to improve its margins and enhance its customer satisfaction levels. While there is a wide range of food containers on offer, tamper-evident containers are a distinctly effective form of quality assurance. These plastic containers are designed with ergonomic seals to make it clear if a food product has been compromised at all. So, they quickly and effectively inform producers whether they can transact on a food product safely before the...

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30Mar

It’s Time To Invest In Easy To Use Top Seal Containers

With so much going on in a food supplier location at any one time, investing in quality airtight food storage containers may initially seem like an unnecessary expenditure. Food businesses will often be reluctant to spend more than they absolutely have to at first. So, they tend to have a love-hate relationship with their containers. But, sourcing optimal storage containers is crucial to success for many reasons.    In this period of rising inflation, it makes particularly strong business sense. Whether you are...

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