Before writing this letter, I spent the previous evening ‘doing the food shopping’. This required three apps. App one was the supermarket app, on which I spent a lot of time uploading recipes and scanning the Offer tabs. App two was a food delivery company, from which I bought a recipe box. App three was a farm and food delivery app, as I treated myself to some fresh bread and dairy produce. This is very different from how my Mum ‘did the food shopping’ when I was a kid, and, while it’s not how I always shop for food (I go to the supermarket, local bakery and the veg store, too), it strikes me that our interest in and purchasing of food has changed in recent times.
To that end,…
