Abel & Cole - big success! Placed order no 2 today. Also enjoying the veg box from Stanhill Farm. Meals since last Wednesdays delivery:
Homemade broccoli quiche with salad and fresh bread
Poached cod fillets (from freezer) with new potatoes, carrots and fresh broad beans
Individual steak and mushroom pies (Dennis of Bexley), homemade potato wedges and carrot/swede mash
Toad in the hole, mashed potato and carrots
Vegetable stir fry
Homemade cottage pie
Found a nice little grocer in Rochester High Street this week while I was on the way to my Mum's house and added spaghetti hoops, unsalted rice cakes and dates to the store cupboard, as well as some nice juicy plums to the fruit bowl. Chatting with the store owner, I discovered that businesses have to pay commission to get change from the bank - even small businesses like hers! I was appalled by yet another way that small shops are being penalised.
Gave in and visited the Co-op at Northumberland Heath for prawns and cat food - I went for Co-op own brand thinking it might be more ethical than Felix, but cat not impressed. Later in the week I found a pet shop in Bexleyheath shopping centre that stocks Felix - hooray!
The Tesco Metro store on Bronze Age Way (just round the corner) is close to opening now. It occupies a building that until recently was a pub. I learned from the pet shop owner in Bexleyheath that there is another Tesco store planned for there too- not far from Asda! Another strike against the local shops.
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