17 Recipes To Bookmark For Your Plastic-Free Kitchen

To ring in Plastic Free July, we rounded up some of our favorite recipes to help you reduce plastic waste in the kitchen. Grab your Mason jars and get ready to skip packaged products in favor of homemade, whole food alternatives.

Alt-milks tend to lead to quite a bit of packaging waste. Such a versatile ingredient gets used up pretty quickly, and those cartons aren't always easy to recycle. To avoid them, you can make your nut milk out of nut butter in literally two minutes or follow one of these simple recipes:

Here's how to make your own nut butter, plus a few customizations to try if you want to shake things up. And in case chocolate spread is more your jam, we've got a recipe for that, too.

Sometimes you might want a light, airy slice of ferment-y goodness, while other times a dippable flatbread or rich loaf is what will hit the spot. Either way, we have you covered:

To go with that nut butter you DIY'd, you can also make healthier homemade jam super easily (the key is chia seeds). This recipe is easy to follow and comes with a list of fruits that make amazing jam every time. It's also a great method for cutting food waste, as it can use up your slightly bruised fruit.

Find our guide to all things pickling here.

You can grab the recipe here (your pasta sauces will thank you).

A wonderful snack or grain-bowl addition, hummus consistently comes in those annoyingly flimsy plastic containers. Thankfully, these hummus recipes turn out arguably better than store-bought, so it's a win-win.

There are a lot of items we buy all packaged up in grocery stores that are deceptively simple to make a meal of at home. Ready to give it a whirl? Bookmark these delicious recipes to get you started.