I’ve been sticking to my ethos of “less time in the supermarket”. Last shop was a two trolley affair. We have a 2 door car, so you can imagine the fun we had packing boot. At least it wasn’t like a visit to Bunnings, where Mini-Me & I have to cradle items in the backseat. We took delivery of our new upright freezer (yay) and filled it with food (son took the opportunity to throw in meat pies, which I personally find awful unless I have made it – hence careme pastry and a truckload of mince/veges). We bought a truck load of ice cream as well, we don’t normally but, we have a big freezer to fill…let’s call it ice cream research (mind you, we have forgotten about the ice cream a little). Plus life has been busy with visitors and school holidays, so I’ve had to use Coles Online for this week’s hunting/gathering (no mega packs of loo paper – must remember my Woolworth’s Online password. Prefer them, they have free delivery options at anti-social hours). We’ve also had to run to the local convenience store for milk – $5.50 for a 2L bottle of Dairy Farmers Lite milk is insane; and we’ve done it more than once in the past week. Could’ve bought a cow…
This month is Buy Nothing New. I broke it on the 2nd of October – bought my son a new pair of shorts and my daughter a new swimsuit. Son is growing and daughter has school swimming lessons next term. I go with her for her after school lessons and assist her getting into her fastskin (kidding she’s 5, it’s a normal butterfly back). Sadly both articles are not made here in Australia. I really have to get cracking with a list of Australian Made clothing. There’s a fab shop on King St Newtown (!!!) near the Alice St intersection that makes lovely and competitively priced women’s business attire. Name escapes me at the moment. As well, I did found some fabulous Australian Made men’s underwear at Paddington Markets 2 weeks ago – Mr Fab wasn’t keen on the prints. Sadly we, as a community, are accustomed to buying undies cheaply – $40 for a pair of bespoke men’s undies, albeit made in Australia, is excessive. Perhaps they could be the ‘good underwear” Mothers entreated us to wear for the occasion the bus ran us over… However, our house is full of items, that realistically we don’t use/need. I constantly have a bag of clothes for donation to the Salvos (I take it direct to the Salvos at Redfern). Seriously, as soon as I deliver it, another one gets started. Clothes outgrown but not outworn go to the Salvos, others get placed in my cleaning basket for dusting cloths. I did think I had reigned myself in when it comes to my children’s clothes, but it appears the reality may be different. I promise to tweet how I am travelling in that regard!
Anyhow I have 2 dockets to record, one is almost a metre long (there were sidelong glances at Coles Surry Hills that day).
Woolworths Marrickville
WW lite milk 3L $3.59
Pop Tops 250ml 6 pack $2.99
Hercules sandwich sealable bags 120 pack $5.61
Lipton Ice Tea 500ml $2.29
Bulla cream 600ml $3.73
Lychees 565g tin $2.88
Moove milk 600ml $2.94
Boccocini 220g $5.99
CSR sugar cubes 450g $3.58
Arnotts Saos 250g $2.49
Arnotts Marie biscuits 250g $1.90
WW floor kitchen bathroom wipes 100 pack $4.24
WW Pavlova meringue 500g $9.78
Nescafe Gold 200g **special** $9.99
Edgell Super Sweet corn tin 420g $1.82 (this is the only type that is Made in Australia with local ingredients, other Edgell tinned corn are a combo of local & imported)
Seedless Watermelon $2.63/kg
Pink Lady Apples $3.14/kg
Bananas $1.98/kg
Cucumber Lebanese $6.98/kg
Kiwifruit green large $2.98/kg (never seen kiwifruit sold this way before, bought over a kilo!)
Broccoli $3.98/kg
Coles Surry Hills
Sargents Meat Pies 4 pack **special 2 for $8.00** regular $5.99 each
Lipton Ice Tea 1.5L ** special 2 for $5.80** regular $3.39 each
Cadbury block Chocolate **special 2 for $7.00** regular $4.29 each
Wonderwhite 700g bread **special 2 for $6.00** regular $3.99 each
Hamburger Rolls 6 pack **special 2 for $3.50** regular @.40 each
Nestle Connoisseur Ice cream 1 L $8.99
Coles Finest Icecream 500ml $6.99
Weis Ice cream 1 L $7.99
Bornhoffen Natural yog 1kg $4.99
Herbert Adams Vege pasties 700g 4 pack $6.48
Fantastic Hokkien thin noodles 450g $2.25
Wedgewood sausage rolls 40 pack $4.00
La Famiglia garlic bread 450g $3.00
Aunty Kath’s Cookie dough 450g $4.11
Ski Wild Strawberry yog 1kg $4.99
Coles floor wipes 30 pack $4.99
Pantene Shampoo 750ml $15.69
Pantene Conditioner 750ml $15.69
Coles Toilet bleach gel 500ml $2.29
Real Foods corn thins 165g $2.39
Carmens Muesli bars 540g 12 pack $8.99
Coles lite milk 3L $3.96
Sanitarium Up and Go 6 pack $7.66
Devondale UHT 2L lite milk $3.05
Sunrice thin rice cakes 195g $2.38
Arnotts 9 grain vita wheat biscuits 250g $2.99
Kelloggs Sustain cereal 575g $5.29
Arnotts Milk Arrowroot biscuits 250g $1.90
Arnotts Marie biscuits 250g $1.90
Fountain tomato sauce 600ml $2.09
Fountain Smokey BBQ squeeze sauce 500ml $1.80
Golden Circle beetroot sliced 450g $1.60
washed potatoes $1.78/kg
bunch Organic celery $3.98 (stays crispy, even after cooked in soup)
Mandarins $3.98/kg
zucchini $7.98/kg
blueberries 125g $4.48
Watermelon seedless $2.25/kg
quarter cabbage 0.78 cents
half rockmelon $1.59
half cauliflower $1.59
Remember to share prices in your area! The comment area is for you. I can only do so much of the Sydney Metropolitan area alone!
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