Day 2 presented no real change to daily living, except limiting options for a thirst quenching beverage while out in town. Pizza for dinner in a friendly cardboard box..... maybe this won't be so bad after all!
Day 3 (Saturday) we got up and headed to the Farmer's Market to get our groceries. We go every week so this was nothing new to us. Only this time of course we couldn't get any veggies in plastic, and also had to bypass the butcher's stall. Most things are not packaged, but the odd thing like onions and spinach and big bags of apples come wrapped.
After the market we headed to Taste Nature, Dunedin's 'organic store'. Its a great store with a wide range of organic food and even has a little deli selling delicious goodies made on the premises. They also have huge barrels of dishwash and laundry liquid so you can bring you own container and buy as little or as much as you like. This goes for honey, oils, and tahini too. We will definitely be visiting here to get things like rice, polenta, flour and sugar. We were wondering about peanut butter, since there only seems to be plastic jars in the supermarkets, but Taste sells some in jars. The lady also knew of the mysterious Port Chalmers' milk farmer, but said his cows are dry so he is not selling milk at the moment. She also solved our problem for cheese, and said we could come in on the day they cut their cheese and take some in our own container. So a very successful visit!
After Taste Nature we went to the butcher where he gladly wrapped our meat in paper. Hopefully we will go next week and stock up for the month so that we aren't driving there every week.
That afternoon Ceire had a second attempt at making bread, which went better than the first. (I think I was distracted the first time and got the yeast wrong).
Day 4
Nothing to report today since we had a lazy Sunday in watching movies. Guy is missing cookies. But we can make those tomorrow :)
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