30 days without supermarkets #22: Hello Harissa
I’d never tried harissa before a few months ago, and only really heard of it about a year ago. I made a special trip to Waitrose once to get a…
30 days without supermarkets #22: Goodbye mugs
So today I made the Lebanese coffee the right way, and managed to find a small cup to drink it out of. Delicious. It makes a nice change to have…
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 #20: Wake up and smell the (Lebanese) coffee
The best thing about this no-supermarket challenge is that as a result of kicking me sharply out of my shopping and eating habits, I have begun to think differently and…
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 #18: do you really need all that stuff?
Today I had to go to a supermarket because I was shopping for someone else. In only 17 days, I’ve got completely out of the habit of thinking like a…