30 days without supermarkets #25: Selling sugar, salt and fat cheap
It doesn’t matter how much you push the idea of healthy eating, low-fat options, fresh ingredients, 5-a-day fruit and vegetables and a well-balanced diet, if in the end you offer…
30 days without supermarkets #24: Lemon shortbread
In the spirit of my non-wasteful ambitions of recent posts, i just had to finish up some butter and a couple of lemons, so I made some lemon shortbread biscuits,…
30 days without supermarkets #23: How I learned to stop throwing stuff away
One unmistakeable effect of this no-supermarket challenge is that I simply don’t waste food anymore. Yesterday was the last chance to use up a lot of things I had left…
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…