Food Shopping Project 2/3

If you click on the photo it will take you to the original on flickr where notes on each item will tell you what they are and the individual prices (in GB£).

I hadn’t thought about shopping bags before I left the house as I was going to the gym. But I caught the train back and that stops near(ish) the supermarket so I got my shopping done in the same trip. So I had to buy bags. I didn’t want plastic, even the recyclable ones, so bought another jute bag (I must had three now) and a rather nifty cotton bag that folds up into its own pocket.

Also bought but not shown: toilet rim cleaner thing £1.22 and two bags: one jute at £1 and one fair trade cotton at 99p

The cheesecake and the loaf cake are for Rik. He loves cheesecake and has been feeling a bit low and stressed lately so I wanted to cheer him up.

Total cost £38.35
or US$68.54
or NZ$103.55
or €48.12

Before getting on the train I popped into the little M&S food shop at Milton Keynes station because I’d not only forgotten bags, but hadn’t brought anything to eat after the gym. I bought this

Total cost in M&S:
Total cost £5
or US$8.92
or NZ$13.49
or €6.30

Food Shopping Project 2/1

{If you click on the photo it will take you to the original on flickr where you will find notes on each item telling you what it is.}

Having said, in my first ‘food shopping project’ post, that I seldom get to buy my veggies from a market, this afternoon I was in Milton Keynes Centre while the market was open. I wanted some carrots to go in a tagine I’m planning to make tomorrow so I went and had a look. I came away with three bags full of produce for £7.71. I shall report back here on the quality.

The strawberries are from Waitrose, I bought them before I went to the market. Interestingly, they were the same price (2 for £3) as those in the market, a little cheaper than some stalls.

The three cheeses are from a stall in the special exhibition bit in front of John Lewis in the shopping centre. The were three for £10. I’ve had cheeses from this company before and liked them. They had a new one (brought out last year but new since I last bought from them) called Bouncing Berry which is mature cheddar with lots of cranberries – Ihad several tasters of this and bought two!

£1 = NZ$2.63 or US$1.76 or €1.24
So total for shopping £17.71 or NZ$46.70 or US$31.22 or €21.91

Between the last FSP photo and this one, I have bought some potatoes and some cherry tomatoes and my SO has bought some (lots of) mushrooms.

Food Shopping

{If you click on the photo it will take you to the original on flickr wehre you will find notes on each item telling you what it is.}

There’s a group on flickr called The Food Shopping Project. It appears to be dead. Nothing posted for the last seven months. Twenty-one members but only two have ever posted and there are only seven photos in the pool.

But I like the idea and, rather than start a new group duplicating this one, I’ve joined it. Maybe it will wake up, maybe it wont.

The idea is that every time you go shopping you lay out your purchases and photograph the lot (one picture). You add a note to each item to identify it and then put a note at the bottom corner of the picture giving the total cost.

The group rules ask that you give the currency conversion into US$ and € (euros).

I’m hoping to be living in New Zealand next year and one of the reasons I am doing this is to see the difference between food and prices here and there. So I converted it to NZ$ as well.

This lot came to £62.53 which is US$113.89, €77.60 and NZ$162.56

I often buy lots of fruit and veg. I would like to buy it from a market but the food from the markets around here goes off very quickly. The only exception is the once-a-month farmers market.