The Trolley Challenge: Only Buying Real Food.

[christy]

I tend to only buy rice crackers, tins of tomatoes, toilet paper, soy sauce etc when I go to coles/woollies now. So all processed stuff I can't make at home.

I buy fruit/veges from the produce market, meat from the butchers and now I get flour, coffee, sugar from the little organic market around the corner.... So when I go to the big shops its only for processed stuff I can't get there....

[Lulu]

Oh don't get me started on that - I was fuming to see Strawberries all the way from QLD when we have farms 25 mins from here!

[Bathsheba]

Another thing: I don't get it when people say "you shouldn't shop when you feel hungry". (Assuming you will over spend) Shopping in Coles doesn't actually make me feel hungry or overspend... if anything I feel quite depressed and walk out without enough ingredients to make meals. I'm actually more inspired by the cleaning products aisles than the "food" aisles.... not that I over spend there either... I keep it pretty basic: Gumption, de-mineralised water... check out to see if Reva have released a new colour of peg... *sigh*

[willow5]

there is no real food in the supermarket!

Well ok, fruit and veg and flour etc. Thats it....

lulu: Oh, and rolled oats i don't even really trust the fruit... How long has it been off the tree?

so true!!