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Home brands - the controversy
"don't be too harsh on yourself if you fall for a phantom brand – you might just be getting yourself a decent product for less." Choice...
Feb 26
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What happened to smoked mackerel?
An ode to Nigel Back in my dinner party hosting days I discovered that a smoked mackerel, served much like this, but with little slices...
Jan 25
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Behind my pantry doors
"a well-stocked pantry – a grand word for some precariously stacked shelves and rodent-proof storage boxes." Felicity Cloake It was...
Jan 17
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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...
Jul 13, 2024
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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...
Jun 4, 2024
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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...
Feb 7, 2024
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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...
Jul 3, 2023
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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...
Apr 21, 2023
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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...
Apr 18, 2023
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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...
Feb 24, 2023
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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...
Feb 10, 2023
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The ethics of shopping
"Is anything sustainable foodwise?" my sister Jenny I know I've talked about this before - the difficulty - no downright impossibility...
Nov 19, 2022
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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 -...
Sep 22, 2022
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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...
Aug 5, 2022
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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...
Jan 22, 2022
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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...
Jan 7, 2022
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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...
Nov 19, 2021
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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....
Nov 18, 2021
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Titbits
"TITBIT - a choice morsel of food; a small and particularly interesting item of gossip or information." I have book group here tonight,...
Nov 10, 2021
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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...
Sep 21, 2021
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