I just couldn’t resist…
You know me – always up for a challenge! Well you would have thought that having bought nothing for myself for 10 (now 11) months and trying to give things away…
Purple cauliflowers and a water pistol!
Since finishing my year of eco challenges, I still haven’t stepped foot in a supermarket and when I did my food shopping the other day I found two quite unexpected…
Now is the time to pick your own onions and buy a lot of them!
Have you ever picked your own onions? One of my favourite places to go on a weekend is Roundstone Farm. It is a pick your own fruit and veg farm…
Shopping locally won’t necessarily save you money…
Since quitting the supermarkets, I have found that some things are cheaper in the local shops e.g. bulk rice or bulk soy sauce for example. However some things are more…
Is shopping at a corner shop eco-friendly and / or thrifty???
If you read my blog post about compromise you will know how my husband and I feel about each others tastes in food. Well I decided to give in a bit and…
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…
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…
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…
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…