30 days without supermarkets #15: A fridge full of food, a pocket full of money
I can’t quite remember when, but at my local shop, Daily Fresh, I bought four large chicken legs for £2.65, and a kilo of lamb mince for under a fiver,…
30 days without supermarkets #14: The power of old bananas
This isn’t a direct result of not shopping at a supermarket, but it’s the kind of thing that happens more when you’re not living in a Tesco-induced stupour. I rescued…
30 days without supermarkets #13: What £5.50 can buy you
Although the bag of fruit and vegetables I got from Daily Fresh at £5.50 round the corner was cheaper by far than it would have been in Sainsbury’s it’s not…
30 days without supermarkets #12: Lemons and notebooks
The best book I have read in a long, long time is John Kay’s Obliquity . The idea – that ‘complex goals are best achieved obliquely‘ – is both the…
30 days without supermarkets #11: Hello kohlrabi
Although there’s nothing particularly exotic about the kohlrabi – my friend Andrew Williams’ parents used to grow them in the back garden in Bournemouth – I actually have never eaten…
Life without supermarkets #10: Hello parval
One of the first things that occurred to me when I started this challenge was that it would finally prompt me to take advantage of everything the local shops have…