Ten Items I Desperately Need to Purchase at the Supermarket. Aka: My Shopping List.

1. Radiant washing powder. Have you noticed that some things at the supermarket have rocketed in price compared to others. Maybe it's a weight to fuel consumption ratio thing. Washing powder is one of those things. Dog food was another. Everytime I go near a supermarket now I check if Radiant is on special because otherwise I can't afford to buy it. Before you ask: B—— prefers the smell of this one.
2. Veggies. I have some spinach in the fridge. That is all. Until I get the fridge I was going to put in my savings list (until I realised a fridge wasn't an incentive for me to save), the number of vegetables I can fit in the existing one is limited. Those of you out there who have had to see me eat the same thing day after day, will know what a relief (to them) it will be when I can veggie-load and make different meals every day. In the meantime, at least one other vegetable will constitute choice.
3. Fruit. Same as above but only two serves a day instead of five or more.
4. Marshmallows. Isn't that a staple item in everyone's shopping list. A sugar boost at only seventy-seven calories for ten marshmallows, no fat. The pink and white ones.
5. Milk. The current flavour of the epoch for milk is lactose free. I like the idea of soy a lot—especially as a possible way to avoid HRT (according to some sources and not at all to others)—but it makes a weird London-bathwater type ring around my cup. I got tired of that. The lactose free is good, but they turn the lactose into fructose, and also, it seems, into fat, so here is the sugar and fat I lost on the marshmallows. Hate it when you find something you wanted to lose.
6. Eno. I think Eno is the next-big drink to be re-marketed. First there was the rebirth of Lucozade as an energy drink rather than a hangover or gastro cure. Then the very uneconomical one-Berocca-twisted-into-water drink. Now I think they will have the twist-technology for a spoon of Eno. What a money-spinner. I’ll buy my energy drinks in bulk thanks. Oh, but I actually need it because I’m burpy.
7. Marshmallow whip. Like the many other items that Coles addicts me to and then denies by removing from the shelves, this one is something I search for in vain every time I pass the condiment aisle. The others are Coles Stem Ginger cookies (now replaced with an inferior version with no actual stem ginger in them) and those long windy liquorice straps (oh I love those). Actually, looking at that list, it seems that maybe Coles is looking after me. Why is what’s good for you so painful?
8. A teeny-weeny light bulb. I am always in search of this light bulb. The problem is that although I know it is teeny-weeny, there is not much else I know. It is possibly tear shaped and it is either screw-in or bayonet. If I could just get that teeny-weeny light bulb, I could read in bed and then turn off the light without having to get up. That would be wonderful. Maybe after I have done this I will go and look at the blown bulb and get the answers to the universe's great questions.
9. Advil. I like the little round brown Advil pills. But again Coles has stopped selling them. They make me feel like I am travelling as that's where I got my little bottle, and that's what I take when I go.
10. Floss. Like fruit and veggies and other good intentions, floss is considered and rejected for chocolate biscuits and cake, thereby creating a greater need for itself that in turn is unfulfilled. Oh, the strange merry-go-round of life. Don't forget to buy floss ... ooh, Tim Tams.