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…
30 days without supermarkets #17: How the middle class destroyed the high street
I have nothing to report, particularly, on the progress of my challenge, because frankly, it’s all going fine and far from ‘suffering’ from a loss of supermarkets, I’ve benefited in…
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…