10 Jul Managing the cost of living balance
We are in a tricky spot in society right now, because this cost of living crisis has us making choices that affect our environments as well as our financial security.
For example, I walked past Jr Morse on the way home from my walk/shop and was drawn to look at the interesting and creative sandwich that they have devised. That may be a topic for another time, but I said to the server that the sandwich was yummy (and very difficult to eat in a practical sense). She laughed and said that was true and I perused their other snacks.
I said ‘I have just bought ingredients for a sandwich, so I won’t buy any food’.
She said ‘Would you like a coffee?’
I said: ‘no thank you, I am okay’. Because it was 12 pm!! I don’t usually have a coffee at 12 pm, and it would be one less that I could buy this afternoon (or a matcha, most probably, 🙂 ).
Protect the food environment
In any case, it got me thinking that there needs to be a balance, because if I continue to shun Dr Morse as I have lately, with friends also because their menu is now really outrageously expensive for what it is, and a lot less enticing, then what will become of them? They will be forced to close, perhaps, and that would be a shame for everyone!
Except perhaps that they are NOT the Dr Morse I came to love. A few months ago I think they sold up and moved on, because there were renovations, then a total different staff team and new menu, new everything.
Not so ideal from my perspective, given how much I loved that establishment. And, I guess it can happen the other way too, because I don’t believe the original Dr Morse was short of a quid (I could be wrong).
Support the ones you love
In a cost of living crisis people are going to stop eating out as much, so restaurants and cafes put up their prices, and therefore people don’t eat there as much and the cycle repeats. It is a wicked problem, I think.
My approach is to buy drinks – coffees, matchas, teas etc so that I can still go to cafes, and people ARE still eating. I was just at a cafe at the Abbotsford Convent this morning and people were eating. Because their prices are not outrageous. . . (Even though nothing really took my fancy – except for the salad perhaps).
Save the eating out for special occasions, and drink your way through this city. That is my plan.
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