If you’ve had a recipe box from us in the last few weeks you will have seen their new summer look – we hope you like them! Our boxes, ice packs and woolcool insulation help our ingredients get to you in the best possible condition, but it’s hard not to notice that people have been finding lots of other uses for them as well!

We have to hand it to our customers – they’re super creative when it comes to reusing their Gousto boxes! The boxes are 95% recyclable, but that’s no reason why they shouldn’t be used for a bit of fun once the ingredients inside them have been unpacked!

Here are some clever ways you can reuse your Gousto recipe box:

Hack the heatwave by building a makeshift sun shelter… 

Big thank you to Gusto for free sun workstation so I can keep editing in this weather @goustocooking @Tim_SwanSmith pic.twitter.com/QTCtS4JkW7

— Craige Barker (@craigeb) July 20, 2016

Or give your pets a new cardboard playground!  

(It works for kids too!)

Gousto packaging is multi-purpose before recycling! #goustocooking

A post shared by James (@stokj) on Jun 5, 2016 at 5:35am PDT

Our woolcool can even help pets to have fun in the sun!

Got my first @goustocooking delivery. They suggest recycling the wool as a cat bed – kitties agree! pic.twitter.com/6WAjyV0MRT — Muffy (@Gemiska) July 16, 2016

In fact, pretty much all pets seem to love Gousto… even guinea pigs!

Our woolcool makes a great nest for chickens:

Hey @goustocooking – I found a use for all that sheep’s wool! pic.twitter.com/yBNRWjZ4PV — Tracey Bray (@tracey_bray) July 17, 2016

While our boxes let kids sail the seas at home… 

My first @goustocooking delivery. Already recycling the box as a boat. Hope the food brings the same satisfaction. pic.twitter.com/UgRjHW9B5l — Helen Daykin (@helendaykin) July 9, 2016

Once you’ve collected a few, you can build a box fort!

@goustocooking weather is miserable outside so we’ve made an indoor Gousto box camp! pic.twitter.com/9AI8QwV5zV — KM (@lilac_rose12) June 26, 2016

They can be fun for adults too – you can turn your woolcool into a jumper!

or even a draught excluder!

we made a draught excluder from our wool that came in our Gousto package! 🙂 #woolcool#gousto#arty#creativepic.twitter.com/n4CFAzcQ7f — Lady Hannah Serrant (@Hannahserrant) October 22, 2014

Have you found a use for our boxes that we haven’t mentioned? What’s your favourite of the ideas above? Let us know in the comments, or share a pic with us @goustocooking!