Re: [london.food] Supermarket Syndrome

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From: Juliet Kemp
Subject: Re: [london.food] Supermarket Syndrome
Date: 11:55 on 05 May 2005
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:21:00PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
> 
> I do buy things from supermarkets; canned tomatoes, chickpeas and
> other pulses, shampoo and foil and things, oils and vinegars, and of
> course BOUZE.  But I don't go in them - I get a nice driver to bring
> it all to me for the really well worth it delivery charge of 4 quid.
> I've not been inside a supermarket for months, and if I'm lucky I'll
> never have to go in one again.  I shop mostly at Surrey Street Market now:
>   http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1718360
> Fish and meat come from the fishmonger and butcher around the corner.

We get as much as possible of our stuff delivered from Organic Delivery
(http://www.organicdelivery.co.uk, though their site is not great, sadly
:-/ ).  They do tins & stuff as well as veg, though the basis of our
weekly order is their small veg box.  You don't know what you're going
to get, but this does lead to interesting eating.  Though I wish they
wouldn't put cucumber in - still, the rats like it.  

Stuff we can't get there comes from the Co-op down the road (which may
be a supermarket but at least is a smaller & less scary one); Tescos
across the park is a last resort.  We're currently considering getting a
delivery from them, or possibly Ocado, for those items, every month or
so.  BTW, does anyone know who, other than Ocado, have the 'green
delivery' option, whereby you put your order in with another one also
coming to your area, to reduce van-miles?


Juliet

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