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Jul 13
That Choice survey
"When you have limited financial means you can only buy items you need. You have to shop by necessity and this means you may not be...
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Jun 4
Ruminations on what we eat - a project?
"Writer's block is having too much time on your hands." Jodi Picoult I have now been writing this blog for almost eight years, so...
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Feb 7
A frugal heritage
“Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.” Nicholas Sparks My younger son recently wrote a very...
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Jul 3, 2023
Bargain hunting dilemmas - it's class isn't it?
"When something as total as your whole domestic and local environment has been shaped in one way, to encounter a world in which that...
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Apr 21, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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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