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.
30 days without a supermarket: the full list of blog entries
- July challenge: No supermarkets for 30 days July 6, 2011 8:33 pm
- Life without supermarkets #1: Goodbye Danone July 6, 2011 9:24 pm
- Life without supermarkets #2: Kettles & shallots July 8, 2011 12:09 am
- Life without supermarkets #3 & #4: Goodbye Green & Black’s July 9, 2011 11:43 am
- Life without supermarkets #4 again: At last, satsumas you don’t throw away July 9, 2011 10:36 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #5: Goodbye tabloids & loyalty cards July 10, 2011 6:38 pm
- 30 days without a supermarket #6: Goodbye ‘the faceless mute’ at Tesco July 11, 2011 9:00 am
- 30 days without a supermarket #7: Wasting not, wanting not July 12, 2011 7:39 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #8: How much is a packet of digestives? July 13, 2011 10:32 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #9: Muesli & the benefits of forethought July 14, 2011 2:05 pm
- Life without supermarkets #10: Hello parval July 15, 2011 11:14 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #11: Hello kohlrabi July 16, 2011 10:53 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #12: Lemons and notebooks July 17, 2011 11:56 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #13: What £5.50 can buy you July 19, 2011 12:33 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #14: The power of old bananas July 19, 2011 9:50 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #15: A fridge full of food, a pocket full of money July 20, 2011 10:32 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #16: Less is definitely more July 21, 2011 12:25 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #17: How the middle class destroyed the high street July 22, 2011 8:41 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #18: do you really need all that stuff? July 23, 2011 6:39 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #19: pleasures of the haphazard July 24, 2011 10:45 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #20: Wake up and smell the (Lebanese) coffee July 25, 2011 5:23 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #21: bye bye chicken breasts July 27, 2011 5:43 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #22: Goodbye mugs July 27, 2011 5:55 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #22: Hello Harissa July 28, 2011 5:40 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #23: How I learned to stop throwing stuff away July 29, 2011 7:07 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #24: Lemon shortbread July 30, 2011 6:42 pm
- 30 days without supermarkets #25: Selling sugar, salt and fat cheap July 31, 2011 7:47 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #26: defeat in Prague and glory of kitchen departments August 1, 2011 5:15 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #27: My new briki August 2, 2011 8:31 am
- 30 days without supermarkets #28-30: wrapping up August 7, 2011 8:08 am
- A darker shade of chocolate: Green and Black’s and Ben Goldacre September 6, 2011 9:50 am
- How blogging helped me make the best cup of coffee ever February 29, 2012 4:14 pm
- How much is a packet of digestives? You do the math… July 31, 2012 9:16 am
- Supermarkets: will we (or they) ever learn? July 16, 2015 10:02 am