Like Trill, my nearest Coles is 38km although we do have a tiny supermarket in town that I buy milk and bread etc.

I go once a week with DS (he's almost 2), either after swimming lessons or before FDC. I'm lucky the butcher and baker (but no candlestick maker) are close to Coles as well. It was so busy the other day that DS made it through 2 vegemite sticks, a small packet of sultanas and a piece of polony, it was a full trolley though.

I have to freeze all my meat so I do a basic menu plan in my head, arranging meals around netball and football training.

Does anyone elses butcher still give out polony to kids? This used to happen when I was little so was pleasantly surprised when DS was offered. Actually, this is the only time he ever gets polony so he needs to make the most of it!

If DS is good, we have a "date" afterwards at a cafe/nursery/gift shop, I have a coffee and he has a milkshake.