This week we had our basic food shop delivered, minus meat, bread and fruit and veg. We plan to use a partnership based supermarket for this eventually, and top up with Co-op, but this was a good start and changing too many things in one go is too hard.
This morning we took the girls into Oundle and mooched about while Max shopped. He reckoned that aside from accidentally buying the nice oil, it cost no more than it normally does to any great degree and was a very enjoyable hour of being together, looking at things and chattering.
It feels good to have made a start; the girls are very keen on the idea too and I’m pleased to think we’re hopefully going to inspire then to shop more thoughtfully as they become adults.
Well done! Sounds like it’s a good change that you are making. We’ve been trying to change our habits too, and last weekend we went to a real bookshop to buy a book – not Amazon!
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This post made me laugh because when we got our first weekly shop from the farm shop last month, I also accidentally bought very nice but very expensive oil!
Getting expensive olive oil is always worth the extra. Ditto for balsamic vinegar – the stuff aged 12 years+ is sooo much better. Must give oundle a try before I run out of time to do daytime wandering, it looks lovely.
Love your blog. We are planning to home school our 3 children and live in thrapston – so must be nearby to you as you mentioned oundle. Very reassuring to read about a family successfully home educating and really enjoying reading your experiences and thoughts, Mel x.
Way to go 🙂 On the topic of expensive oil. Keep and eye out for Munn’s Rapeseed Oil. It’s from a farm not far from us in Chatteris. virgin, cold pressed it’s a mile away form the mass produced oil (nowadays most ‘vegetable oil’ is mostly Rapeseed unless it specifies somethign different). http://www.laemunns.com/rapeseed.html
We’re just beginning this too! We got our first organic farm veg box this week. It made us think, since it has to come from Lincolnshire & we live in Northants, but after researching it seems that Northants is quite low on organic farms 🙁
We’ve all noticed how much nicer the food tastes though – better than supermarket organic veg.
We’re also trying to reduce how much we use & buy. After our recent holiday, we really noticed how having more stuff just complicates life & gives us more unnecessary things to think about.