a month without supermarket - new challenge for 2011 starts at post 1013

parsonswife8

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

to me lidle, aldi, etc are all chain stores, and the ones i have mentioned arnt even british....

Same with the frozen food stores...

I feel that farmfoods is trying to alure you into a sense that all their produce is from british farms, and gives you the sense of farm markets etc, but if you look on most of the packaging, especially the frozen chicken products its mostly produced in Thailand and packed in britain:eek:

It's truly ridiculous, isn't it???:mad:

I am going to buy from farmer's markets locally, if I want something that we can't grow successfully ourselves. I am ordering online from a Kent butcher, getting milk, eggs and orange juice from the local milkman and flour direct from the mill.:)

Fish from the High Street fishmonger, British cheeses and either making or buying local homemade jams and preserves.

At least it's a start.

greenbee

I have a feeling you guys might enjoy this

... and this... and this... and maybe this as well...

Lots more out there, but it might give you some food for thought and help you in your decision-making

[Deleted User]

I have been having a good think and have come to a couple of conclusions

not everyone can afford to go the whole hog so a bit is better than nothing and I would say that there is nothing wrong in using the pound shops for stuff like sugar. Some of them are purely local.

and I want to support British so goobye cadbury and good riddance to kraft

[Deleted User]

I like it greenbee

I also like
www.biggreensmile.com as well as the ethical superstore

Caterina

Greenbee, lots of very good and interesting links, thank you!

Anyone London-based ever heard of the People's Supermarket? Unfortunately I am not managing to access their website at the moment (I have alerted them of the broken link), but please read these articles and see what you think:

http://www.greenwisebusiness.co.uk/news/first-peoples-supermarket-readies-to-open-in-london-1371.aspx

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/7779395/The-Peoples-Supermarket-communal-cheap-and-democratic.html

Lily-Lu

kittie wrote: »

and I want to support British so goobye cadbury and good riddance to kraft

And Kenwood

Pitlanepiglet

Lily-Lu wrote: »

And Kenwood

I'm not giving up my Kenwood Chef for anyone, you can't make me and I shan't

roosterpotatoes

Caterina wrote: »

I have also told my family in no uncertain terms that this is how January is going, because of an economy drive after overspending at Christmas (including presents for them, in goods AND cash) and they are all ok with it. Not that they would have any choice, as I am the main shopper and I hold the purse strings.

They like it, anyway, when I cook from scratch, the kids often pester me to make homemade baked beans for breakfast, as they like them much more than the tinned stuff.

Caterina, I'm intrigued with your homemade baked beans, would you please share the recipe with me

I am going to try my absolute hardest to follow through with this challenge.

My store cupboard is reasonably filled, have a lot of bread and consumption will slow down when my son goes back to school on Wednesday (he has packed lunch but for a four year old, he munches his way through sandwiches like there is no tomorrow lol)

We have our local shop though which is independent, it's in the same building as the local Post Office but as we are out in the sticks it makes sense to use this for milk and bread and we can walk there.

Our nearest Co-op is near my sons school about two miles away so we have no choice but to drive him, the money saved from not going to the supermarket will be used to contribute towards the petrol and my road fund licence which is due at the end of Feb.

I do buy my toilet roll from Home Bargains, after all, this, for me, is to not go to the supermarket

greenbee

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

I'm not giving up my Kenwood Chef for anyone, you can't make me and I shan't

Remember, the most ethical thing you can do is to not buy anything, so using what you've got is the best option.

Just make sure you use it LOTS

Lily-Lu

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

I'm not giving up my Kenwood Chef for anyone, you can't make me and I shan't

Lol me neither. Mine isn't an old, old model, but at least it was 'made in Britain':D
I'm not sure why I'm so attached to it, because I really only use it for 'rubbing in' fat and flour; everything else I make by hand.
Although, I did recently buy a second hand mincer attachment for it, so the seller got my money instead of Delonghi:D