Over the years there have been lots of TV programmes where experts ‘spy’ on peoples weekly shopping trolley and then surprise them and make them own up to all the ‘bad’ things they’ve bought. I remember several series of Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin – Eat Well – Spend Less and recently Michael Mosley – Secrets of Your Big Shop.
This is either done to help them save money or eat better or both. Nearly always a family who want to change something and their big shop sometimes has lots of fizzy drinks and crisps but it has all the things they need for meals.
I’ve often wondered why none of these programmes feature one retired person.
So I photographed my last weeks shopping and wondered what on earth an ‘expert’ would make of it. There’s no main things for meals, but lots of milk. Nothing makes sense at all.
There are pears, apples, grapes and lemons. Cauliflower, carrots and potatoes. Butter and Willow spread and bread flour. Milk and cashews and mixed nuts and raisons. Mayo and cheese, a pack of six mini naans and some cooking chocolate for cake making.
