![]() ![]() ![]() For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. We shopped for meat from our freezer stash, a mix of items bought on special and a monthly organic meat delivery from the nearby Jonai farm. We were already buying toilet paper in bulk and using period undies rather than buy disposable period products. I’ve found combating perishable supplies one or two days at a time is far thriftier than buying things that disappear from my field of vision (and thus my memory) the moment they’re put away. Vegetables used to languish in the crisper after I’d shopped for an impossible menu plan. Having a relationship with shop owners such as Jo, Ro, Patricia and Paul is a special part of small-town life. Both stores are open a couple of days a week and the proprietors run a soup kitchen on Monday nights. I usually shop for fresh produce at Harvest and their neighbour Sprout for bread, so no habit change was needed there. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads The groceries I usually order online at great expense were widely available and not as pricey as I expected. I felt like a cast member of The Sullivans, but with a slightly discounted bulk buy box o’ Bonsoy. I discovered my local shops have chivalrous staff to carry everything to your car. We buy pet food, cleaning supplies, dairy, freezer, pantry items and lunchbox snacks from the supermarket online.įorgoing that online order this week has been a pleasant surprise. In our lovingly shambolic household with my social worker spouse and two little kids, Woolies deliveries usually arrive fortnightly. There is a massive IGA and its smaller counterpart that locals affectionately call the IGB. ![]() Where I live in regional Castlemaine there’s no Coles or Woolies. ‘I’m a convert’: Jasper Peach, regional Victoria Would you do this again? Sure, but not willingly. While I despise Coles and Woolworths for their bright lights, cheap tricks and huge profits, I also find myself there multiple times a week, falling for it all and loving it.ĭid you save any money? Yes, I definitely get sucked into buying more than I need when I go to Coles or Woolies. These small grocers really need to work on their sneaky spending tactics. In fact, when I did “pop out” to IGA, I wasn’t at all wooed into buying more than I needed. I’m a sucker for specials and end up spending more than I intend when I go to Woolworths and Coles. Maybe it’s a hangover from Covid lockdown when going to the shops was a chance for fresh air: “Sorry darling, I need to pop out as we’re dangerously low on moth balls.”īut I definitely saved money this week. I wish I could blame the monopolistic capitalist entities, but I suspect the problem is me. Not because we have a toddler, but because I’m just so used to “popping” out and grabbing something. Molly Glassey’s freezer, bereft of ice-cream. ‘IGA just doesn’t discount junk food like the big two do’. Every day for my entire week of abstinence there was something I needed to top off a meal that I didn’t have on hand dry pasta, tinned tomatoes, tissues! I thought about going to a chemist to stock up on tissues for my snotty toddler but felt awful paying on card for something under $5 a guilt I’d never faced at Woolies or Coles, let them cop the fee. Day two and it happened again I set out to make tacos, forgetting we didn’t have taco shells, grated cheese or sour cream (don’t judge my obsession with Tex-Mex). All I wanted was half-price Connoisseur from Coles. Funky gelaterias aren’t an option in a cost-of-living crisis. IGA just doesn’t discount junk food like the big two do. So when I ditched the big two for a week, I thought it would be as simple as buying a bit more fruit and veg on my days off and dining out on self-satisfaction if all else failed.īut less than 24 hours in, sticky date pudding in the oven and no ice-cream in the freezer, I desperately wanted to flake. ![]() I’m a farmers’ market snob who supplements any weekend shortsightedness with a post-work Coles or Woolworths trip. ‘I desperately wanted to flake’: Molly Glassey, inner Melbourne Depending on your location and your existing grocery habits, shopping without the big two can either be a breeze, or an enormous inconvenience. ![]()
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