Eastbourne pudding, anyone?
Reading about the current search for the definite recipe for Dundee Cake, so that it can get a ‘protected name status’ from the EU, reminds me of a puzzle I…
30 days without supermarkets #21: bye bye chicken breasts
I’m quite unnerved by the amount of money I’m saving by not shopping at Sainsburys, or rather by the amount that I would throw at them without a thought to…
30 days without supermarkets #19: pleasures of the haphazard
Cereal bars are one of the things I used to buy regularly from supermarkets. It’s only laziness that stopped me from making my own. They don’t take much time at…
30 days without supermarkets #16: Less is definitely more
Living without supermarkets is the kind of challenge that’s easier when you’re leading a fairly predictable life at home, less so when you’re on the road. That’s not entirely true:…
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…