Shop
Everything we sell, and how to order it.
Rice, flour and sugar
The sacks and bags that run out first, in the sizes people actually buy.
Fresh produce
Bought at the market that morning and sold the same day.
Chilled and frozen
Milk, eggs, butter and frozen meat, packed cold and delivered last.
Tea, coffee and biscuits
The cupboard things, including the ones guests notice.
Household and cleaning
Detergent, dishwash, paper goods and the bin bags nobody remembers.
Basmati rice, 5 kg bag
The long grain bag most households here buy, in the size that fits a cupboard.
Cooking oil, 2 litre bottle
Sunflower oil in the two litre bottle, and the five litre tin if you cook properly.
Local bananas, one dozen
Small local bananas from the atoll boats, when there are any.
Eggs, tray of thirty
A full tray, carried flat, or a half tray if thirty is too many.
Black tea, 400 g
Loose black tea in the 400 gram pack, the one everybody's kitchen has.
Washing powder, 3 kg
The three kilo bucket, which is the size worth having carried up.