It consists of two kilos of buckwheat, three cans of corned beef, half a kilo of sugar, and a pack of tea.
Even in those shops that operate out of private houses built with sticks from mopani trees (Colophospermum mopane), mud, and cow dung, all groceries, even a pack of tea, are wrapped in dark plastic sacks.
The total cost.... $1.00 for a pack of teas candles at the dollar store.
The 300-year-old tea looked remarkably like a pack of leaf tea which a colleague had just brought them as a gift from China, which produces a pale gold tea with – undeniably – the scent of a new-mown hay field.
Upstairs, pride of place is given to what claims to be the oldest packet of tea in the world: 1lb net of Broken Orange Pekoe, packed in 1944, and "guaranteed by the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board".
I've only been twice in six months, but the half-price deals on catering-size packs of marmalade, tea, coffee, rice, beans, pasta, fruit juice, tinned tomatoes and pulses have slashed my shopping bill.
With thick blue tartan blankets draped over our laps and a hamper packed with flasks of tea and coffee and a box of crunchy rusks, we set off at a sedate crawl, scanning the bush for wildlife.
Pack of 40 Yorkshire Tea bags: £1.65.
Pick up a pack of their favorite tea bags, and add adorable character, with this felt rosette how-to.
If you like, send guests home with sample packs of the teas that they tasted during the party.
Armed with a metal detector, "I take a flask of tea, a pack of crisps, a Mars bar, and a sandwich and go out for two hours of detecting, and then I sit in the hedgerow and have my crisps and tea before setting off again".
