The Trolley Challenge: Only Buying Real Food.

[Campari]

Great plan!

It reminds me of the "Grandma Diet" - basically recommending that you only eat/buy food that would have been around when our grandparents were our age - so nothing processed, nothing laden with preservatives, not too much imported food .. of course you are not limited to eating chops and mashed potatoes, but just gives you something to think about.

[Bathsheba]

LOL I've never heard of the "Grandma Diet"! Might have to Google. Sounds interesting! On the whole (except for over cooking the vegies) they did eat soooo much better than we do!

Lulu: oh, and rolled oats I don't even really trust the fruit... how long has it been off the tree?

[AngelPunks]

I went to a supermarket on the weekend with Div - the first time I've set foot in a supermarket for MONTHS - since they have started the farmers market in the CBD weekly I get all my F&V from there, I do buy meat from there or from my local butcher. I will have to set foot into the supermarket this week as I've run out of baking basics (flour etc), almost out of toilet paper and I need more bicarb & vinegar.

For me this wasn't me attempting to be ethical - this was purely for cost cutting - at the farmers market I can buy enough fruit & veg for me for a fortnight for about $40 (that includes a totally indulgent LARGE punnet of strawberries for $10 plus some home-made greek yoghurt).

They say that you can buy your basic food essentials just by walking around the outside of the supermarket (as in isle 1, along the back & then the last isle) - of course that doesn't include things like oats, flour etc.

[Phteven]

I don't think anyone had my dear old Granny in mind when they came up with the grandma diet - unless gin and pate are counted as whole foods

They say that you can buy your basic food essentials just by walking around the outside of the supermarket (as in isle 1, along the back & then the last isle) - of course that doesn't include things like oats, flour etc.

That's pretty much true - it's designed so that you have to go through the aisles to get to all your staples and you enter through the fruit and veges to make you think it's fresh.

[Bengal]

I never knew that trick about the outskirts of the supermarket

[Michelle71]

I don't think anyone had my dear old Granny in mind when they came up with the grandma diet - unless gin and pate are counted as whole foods

I think I like the sound of that Grandma

[boomba]

Sounds like a great plan Bath I am going to give it a whirl next shop!

[Campari]

I reckon with the Grandma diet you can pretend your Grandma lived everywhere in the world! So you can still eat rice and pasta, but not that 2 minute microwave rice, or jars of pasta sauces, or packaged ravioli etc...

[boobaloo]

i;ve been thinking about this a bit lately, and you know what sparked it? xavi is obsessed with jungle book, so i've heard the song 'bare necessities' a million times.