The benefits of buying groceries online
Living rurally provides a good opportunity to get groceries delivered.
It has many advantages. You can go online, order what you want and a few days later it is delivered to your door.
There’s no sneaky treats going in the trolley (Warren is always asking me to bring home lollies and chips) and there’s no little person begging for chocolate at the checkout.
The people who deliver the groceries are always friendly.
We mentioned we had three cats and if we weren’t at home to put the meat in the fridge which they always did.
That went well until the cats decided they liked raspberry iced buns.
The downside to online grocery shopping is forgetting to order something, which is easily done unless you have a list and are super organised, which I’m not.
Sometimes the groceries you want delivered the next day won’t be coming until next week because the delivery truck is full.
Online grocery shopping is popular in our area, especially those people with several young kids – it’s stress free shopping at its best.
But, somehow I’ve reverted back to getting the groceries when I’m in town minus the twoyear-old chocoholic.
The problem now is remembering to take my own bags, since plastic bags were outlawed.
Never mind all the plastic that remains in the shop – the plastic drink bottles, the plastic wrapping on meat and other food items.
Plastic is everywhere and there’s no getting away from it.
Well intended cafes have even got rid of plastic drinking straws and replaced them with paper ones, which don’t work very well once wet.
On the farm we will make close to 1700 bales of baleage this year – all wrapped in green plastic -although most of this is recycled.
I don’t quite understand the ‘single use’ plastic bag concept as ours doubled as bin liners.
Now we are forced to buy plastic bin liners and the companies that make them must be revelling in profits and rubbing their hands together in glee.
Sometimes when I have to take the two-year-old to the supermarket with me and I start to wonder why I gave up online shopping.
She doesn’t want to sit in the trolley anymore and there are so many things her little fingers want to touch.
She almost always asks for belgium when we get in the door, so I make a beeline for the deli to avoid a meltdown.
I didn’t think I would be one of those mums that gave in to their child’s demands but sometimes it’s easier.
The belgium keeps her satisfied until we reach the checkout.
While we can avoid the aisle with chocolate, we can’t escape it at the counter – it’s everywhere.
The other day the toddler somehow managed to unwrap and devour a kinder surprise (minus the toy inside) before I’d finished paying for all the groceries!