A friend of mine told me about this motivational video he’d seen that recommends you try a 30-day challenge: change one aspect of your behaviour or routine, however small, for 30 days. It’s not going to kill you, and it might just make life interesting or better. It did. I tried 30 days without a supermarket; that is, for a month, I did all my shopping in independent stores, with a ban on entering any ofs, and I’ve changed most of my shopping habits as a result ever since. Although I do get some stuff from supermarkets, it’s very selective, and I never do what I did before the challenge, which was to go to a supermarket and let it suggest to me what I wanted to buy.
No more of this: trying to calculate the real cost of two items that are priced using different methods. Despite the price tag, the ones on the left are in fact almost double the price of those on the right.
30 days without a supermarket: the full list of blog entries
- July challenge: No supermarkets for 30 days Jul 6, 2011 8:33 pm
- Life without supermarkets #1: Goodbye Danone Jul 6, 2011 9:24 pm
- Life without supermarkets #2: Kettles & shallots Jul 8, 2011 12:09 am
- Life without supermarkets #3 & #4: Goodbye Green & Black’s Jul 9, 2011 11:43 am
- Life without supermarkets #4 again: At last, satsumas you don’t throw away Jul 9, 2011 10:36 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #5: Goodbye tabloids & loyalty cards Jul 10, 2011 6:38 pm
- 30 days without a supermarket #6: Goodbye ‘the faceless mute’ at Tesco Jul 11, 2011 9:00 am
- 30 days without a supermarket #7: Wasting not, wanting not Jul 12, 2011 7:39 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #8: How much is a packet of digestives? Jul 13, 2011 10:32 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #9: Muesli & the benefits of forethought Jul 14, 2011 2:05 pm
- Life without supermarkets #10: Hello parval Jul 15, 2011 11:14 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #11: Hello kohlrabi Jul 16, 2011 10:53 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #12: Lemons and notebooks Jul 17, 2011 11:56 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #13: What £5.50 can buy you Jul 19, 2011 12:33 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #14: The power of old bananas Jul 19, 2011 9:50 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #15: A fridge full of food, a pocket full of money Jul 20, 2011 10:32 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #16: Less is definitely more Jul 21, 2011 12:25 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #17: How the middle class destroyed the high street Jul 22, 2011 8:41 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #18: do you really need all that stuff? Jul 23, 2011 6:39 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #19: pleasures of the haphazard Jul 24, 2011 10:45 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #20: Wake up and smell the (Lebanese) coffee Jul 25, 2011 5:23 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #21: bye bye chicken breasts Jul 27, 2011 5:43 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #22: Goodbye mugs Jul 27, 2011 5:55 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #22: Hello Harissa Jul 28, 2011 5:40 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #23: How I learned to stop throwing stuff away Jul 29, 2011 7:07 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #24: Lemon shortbread Jul 30, 2011 6:42 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #25: Selling sugar, salt and fat cheap Jul 31, 2011 7:47 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #26: defeat in Prague and glory of kitchen departments Aug 1, 2011 5:15 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #27: My new briki Aug 2, 2011 8:31 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #28-30: wrapping up Aug 7, 2011 8:08 am
- A darker shade of chocolate: Green and Black’s and Ben Goldacre Sep 6, 2011 9:50 am
- How blogging helped me make the best cup of coffee ever Feb 29, 2012 4:14 pm
- How much is a packet of digestives? You do the math… Jul 31, 2012 9:16 am
- Supermarkets: will we (or they) ever learn? Jul 16, 2015 10:02 am
