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- Apr 21
Is Aldi really cheaper than the other two?
Yes - but not as much as you might think - and also ... First thing to say - I know this has been done before. Everything has been done...
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- Apr 18
How I learnt to shop for food
"You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together." Woody Harrelson An interesting idea but not really what...
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- Feb 24
A shopping list story
"It’s the poetry of the everyday, open to interpretation.” Lucy Ireland Gray The other day I had one of those random conversations in a...
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- Feb 10
Eat food - rule no.1
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Michael Pollan The above quote is probably the most famous modern quote on food around. It...
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- Nov 19, 2022
The ethics of shopping
"Is anything sustainable foodwise?" my sister Jenny I know I've talked about this before - the difficulty - no downright impossibility...
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- Sep 22, 2022
Normality - a Coles shop
This is our second day back in Melbourne and today we did a biggish shop. Yesterday we shopped but only for what we immediately needed -...
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- Aug 5, 2022
A quickie on baskets
"A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a...
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- Jan 22, 2022
Is your freezer your friend or enemy?
"much insight can be gained when having a rummage through a person's freezer." Shelf Love Which is a bit of a worry if you rummaged...
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- Jan 7, 2022
So very today
"I hope your day is a gentle one." Belinda Jeffery Continuing with my mission to clear my desk, I am turning to one of my Christmas...
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- Nov 19, 2021
A climatarian diet? Too hard
“It boils down to people buying what they need, and using what they buy." Andrew Parry - Wrap Does it though? I think it's much more...
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- Nov 18, 2021
Do you need a degree to shop wisely?
"A report by the OECD reveals that 40 per cent of Australians do not have the necessary literacy skills to participate in daily life....
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- Nov 10, 2021
Titbits
"TITBIT - a choice morsel of food; a small and particularly interesting item of gossip or information." I have book group here tonight,...
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- Sep 21, 2021
Shopping - part 2 - supermarket minefields
"Grocery stores serve as a reflection of what is going on in society." Good Housekeeping In one of life's little coincidences I saw this...
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- Sep 19, 2021
Shopping - part 1 - no expense spared
"Few recipes so perfectly illustrate what I have been banging on about for years - that the integrity of the ingredients is more crucial...
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- Aug 28, 2021
Breakfast is on the move at Coles - literally
"Supermarkets regularly move items around the store in an attempt to make customers walk around the store longer. Supermarkets also place...
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- Jun 12, 2021
A special bargain
"Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny." Plutarch I'm trying to get back to the David's...
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