The big cheese!
I did it – I bought some unpackaged cheese from the butchers in Southwick Square! I didn’t just buy a bit, I bought loads of it. The butcher said that…
A bit of a change
I felt like I was cheating on my regular grocers today. I went to a different one… I went to Park Farm shop up at Falmer and bought a whole…
What to do with a glut of apples!
Apples are one of the best of natures snacks. They are easy to take on a day out and my kids love them. Sometimes though I buy too many or…
The other day…
The other day I did my usual weekly local shop and this week I went to the butchers and bought a chicken. I took along this tub – an old…
They’re not from there and they don’t taste anything like it…
Jerusalem artichokes actually originate from North America and I think they taste a little like Chinese water chestnuts, especially if you slice them up and stir fry them. Several months…
This weeks shopping
Since starting my challenge not to shop in supermarkets, I haven’t been to one. It doesn’t seem like a particularly big deal any more and I can’t really remember why…
A home grown winter salad!
Around a week or so ago, I had the last salad of the year from our veg garden. Everything was homegrown and it included: tomatoes – yellow and red cucumber…
Simple rennet free homemade ricotta and cottage cheese
You might think ricotta and cottage cheese are two different things, but in this very simple homemade version of them one can lead to the other! I found this recipe…
Things I have found to be cheaper in my local shops.
The other day on Twitter I exchanged a few tweets with someone who was worried that food would be more expensive outside the supermarket. Well Team Pugh showed that shopping outside the…
A first attempt at homemade fish fingers!
Today was another day, another play date and another chat with a lovely mum. Today we were talking about fish fingers. This is something I have had on my…