We've partnered with Vancouver's own Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery (SPUD.ca!) to bring you some of the finer points of using this fantastic service to get your groceries. What this means is that over the next few weeks we'll be sharing the experience from a couple of different angles: that of my small family of 3 using it and also from a single professional's (Christine McAvoy) perspective.
Last week I shared with you THIS POST that touched on the story of this Vancouver company as well as the convenience of their service. It gave you a good idea of what kind of stuff they have available for delivery (as in: WAY MORE THAN YOU THOUGHT!) and also highlighted just how sustainable the company is, and how you can track how green you're personally shopping by using the convenient Eco-Audit when ordering. In fact, as you're clicking through their digital aisles you can find out exactly how far each item had to go in order to get to their warehouse and choose to shop as local as you please. Or not, in today's case...
I'm going to have to offset part of my purchase for this week (and make up for it next week by going super-local) as Gerolsteiner sparkling water isn't exactly a local product, but it is one of my favourites. I'll sometimes drink a few litres in a week and in the past have struggled a bit because they're quite heavy and I don't love carrying a ton of stuff in glass bottles from the grocery store. The answer? Caselot ordering from SPUD.ca! Kinda like that big international retailer/grocery where you can buy caselots for a discount, but a higher standard of quality of product. You can get discounts when you purchase items by the case or as multiple buys of 2 or more. PLUS a friendly dude comes to your house and drops it off for you!
And not only do they drop it off, but they take it back too. All of the packaging and ice packs that they use to pack the food up in (and bottles after you empty them, of course), you simply put them back into the reusable bins that they drop off your groceries in and when they come back the next week they recycle them or reuse them.
Poke around SPUD.ca for yourself and stay tuned for the next post on Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery dropping next week.
