Online grocery shopping
Time is precious. Any time that we spend doing chores is time we don't spend with Baby. Like a lot of working parents, we use online shopping to save time. We have been using an online, weekly, organic vegetable box and groceries delivery service for a while, and I have to say that I have really enjoyed the experience of having a regular delivery of groceries where the fresh produce is whatever is good on a particular week. Takes a bit of imagination and thinking on one's feet, but the vegetables have been really good and tasty; the suppliers help by including pamphlets with recipe suggestions that are useful for the vegetables supplied. It is kind of nice to not stick to things that we know well so we don't get stuck in a rut. It also meant that we enjoyed more variety of dishes as we have had to adapt to what is supplied.
We have loved the vegetables so much that we have also been ordering their weekly organic roast box which is essentially a pre-packed weekend roast recipe. We have had a good variety of recipes- chicken, beef, pork, lamb, venison, game birds- and I am struggling to remember a repeat of a recipe in the past year. This pushes our knowledge of how to prepare unfamiliar cuts of meat and recipes, helping overcome the reluctance to try new things because of the long shopping list for ingredients. The quality of the ingredients has been so good that I have had no complaints. This was our ploy to eat more vegetables and less meat. Essentially, we have the meat box and one meal of fish, and then eat vegetables for the rest of the week. So far it has worked really well.
The online grocers also supply a selection of essentials, from store-cupboard ingredients to chilled goods to household products such as environmentally friendly dishwasher tablets. We get by mostly with ordering goods from them- good products, conscience assuaging products. As we can set a preference for regular things we want, and essentially have an online shopping list in the shape of the online basket which we just add to as we run out of stuff, it has proven to be a hassle-free way to get the weekly shopping done. The products come in cardboard boxes that are recycled- we leave the boxes out for the delivery man when he comes to make his next drop off. We don't need to be in for the drop off- there is a safe place for him to leave the goods and anything that requires refrigeration are brought in appropriate packaging which keeps everything cool for about a day so we can unpack when we get home.
We do still go to the shops occasionally because it is good to show Baby how to choose things, and to talk about where food comes from. However, I would much rather spend time with him in the park than in a shop and it is good that it is possible to do that. If nothing else, the internet has been a real help for working parents in that respect.
We have loved the vegetables so much that we have also been ordering their weekly organic roast box which is essentially a pre-packed weekend roast recipe. We have had a good variety of recipes- chicken, beef, pork, lamb, venison, game birds- and I am struggling to remember a repeat of a recipe in the past year. This pushes our knowledge of how to prepare unfamiliar cuts of meat and recipes, helping overcome the reluctance to try new things because of the long shopping list for ingredients. The quality of the ingredients has been so good that I have had no complaints. This was our ploy to eat more vegetables and less meat. Essentially, we have the meat box and one meal of fish, and then eat vegetables for the rest of the week. So far it has worked really well.
The online grocers also supply a selection of essentials, from store-cupboard ingredients to chilled goods to household products such as environmentally friendly dishwasher tablets. We get by mostly with ordering goods from them- good products, conscience assuaging products. As we can set a preference for regular things we want, and essentially have an online shopping list in the shape of the online basket which we just add to as we run out of stuff, it has proven to be a hassle-free way to get the weekly shopping done. The products come in cardboard boxes that are recycled- we leave the boxes out for the delivery man when he comes to make his next drop off. We don't need to be in for the drop off- there is a safe place for him to leave the goods and anything that requires refrigeration are brought in appropriate packaging which keeps everything cool for about a day so we can unpack when we get home.
We do still go to the shops occasionally because it is good to show Baby how to choose things, and to talk about where food comes from. However, I would much rather spend time with him in the park than in a shop and it is good that it is possible to do that. If nothing else, the internet has been a real help for working parents in that respect.
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