We're a ethical and sustainable business and we've also been recognised in Manchester's 2024 Be Proud Awards for our role in the community.

We’re tweaking our core hours slightly for the summer as it’s typically a quieter time for us. Read on to find our temporary opening hours…

We recently helped to pull together a couple of meal kits for a local project that had an emphasis on helping people to think about the carbon footprint of their food. Simple to make and a direct replacement for meat based dishes using local fresh produce.

We’re excited to announce that we’re going to be offering deliveries of all of our products to people living in Marple, Marple Bridge, Romiley, Cherry Tree, Compstall, Mellor, Cote Green, Hawk Green and surrounding areas. Do you want plastic free and zero waste alternative delivered straight to your door? Read our latest blog to find out more!

In the latter part of 2021, we participated in a Community Assembly on Climate Change, which saw everyday people from around Manchester come together and develop a mandate that was delivered to Manchester City Council and world-leaders at COP26.

To celebrate Veganuary we’re pulling together four of our favourite dishes that we often cook at home using ingredients that we predominantly buy from the shop. All of these recipes can be made zero, we suggest a local greengrocer for plastic-free vegetables.

Exciting news from Lentils and Lather HQ, we’ve recently taken over a new premises in Marple, Stockport and will be opening our second shop very soon! Find out all the juicy details in our blog.

The climate crisis can have a negative effect on our psychology. How can we change this, how do we transform this worry into positivity and stimulate action??

Check out our top suggestions to help you on your way during Plastic Free July; an international campaign to encourage people all around the world to address their single-use plastic consumption.

We’ve handed over the reins of this blog to an editor of an online eco-minded journal called Rehabilitating Earth. Find out about what they aim to achieve and how they hope to inspire and encourage people through a wide range of conscious content.

A brief update on how the latest announcement fro the UK government will affect our operations. In short, there will be no changes to how we've been running the shop over the past few months. Read on to find out exactly what this means.

Lentils and Lather will be open over the Christmas period to supply plastic free and sustainable shopping to the people of Manchester, including Withington and Didsbury, however, we’ll be operating reduced hours.

Earlier in the year, we wrote a blog for Recycle for Greater Manchester, an organisation that helps residents of Greater Manchester’s boroughs to better understand the need for proper recycling and inspire them to do it correctly. This is what we had to say.

We’re collaborating with Chorlton Bike Deliveries to offer people in the Chorlton and surrounding areas the opportunity to try sustainable shopping.

Curry on Cooking is the latest addition to the Lentils and Lather pantry, with six tantalising spice blends to enable you to knock up a restaurant quality curry from the comfort of your own home. This blog has six recipe ideas to get you started.

Since starting up we’ve been searching for a liquid soap supplier that takes back the plastic containers to be cleaned and reused. Miniml are relatively new on the scene and offer exactly the kind of service offering we’ve been looking for. Read all about the switch in our latest blog.

With the COVID 19 coronavirus taking hold of the world, we’ve had a few days away from the shop to rethink how we operate to ensure that everyone is protected from infection as well as can be. This blog outlines how we intend to operate until further notice.