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Did you know that doing your grocery shopping with spud! saves you an average of 81 minutes per week?
The average family spends 90 minutes a week grocery shopping whereas the average spud! customer spends less than 9 minutes a week ordering their groceries through spud!.
Shopping with spud! means no driving or transit time, no parking, no checkout lines, no hassles. That’s a huge time saving. So what would you like to do with the time you save? Would you take up an exotic hobby, start a new form of exercise, spend time with someone special, or simply catch up on some luxurious sleep?
Tell us what you do with an extra 81 minutes a week and you could win $100 of free groceries from spud! Post your response below to be automatically entered into the draw. To get an extra entry, post a photo with your response. And to get two tasty extra entries, post a video.
Each spud! location is giving away $100 of spud! groceries, so make sure you tell us where you’re from.
Can’t wait to hear from you!
Contest closes: March 1st
Most of that extra 81 minutes is spent shopping for items that Spud doesn’t carry. I used to fill in at Capers in Dundarave, but now that they are gone, I have to go all the way in to Whole Foods and there lies the problem!
Not only do they carry the few things that Spud does not (such as oat bran, Druid fabulous bath products and mustard seed) but Whole Foods is wonderful to wander around in and get ideas for my next Spud order
So, here is the challenge, fellow shoppers! What does Spud NOT carry that people have to go out and get? Clearly, we don’t want Spud to carry unnecessary inventory, but is there anything missing that would make Spud an even better deal than it already is?
Barbara
West Vancouver, BC
I would do T-Tapp exercises for part of it and catch up on some television …. since I rarely watch it.
Much like good organic vegetables, young minds take careful, loving cultivation to grow strong, be nourished, and ultimately to nourish others some day.
I am a writer and a college-level writing instructor, and the 81 minutes Spud saves me often goes to my students, whose ideas need lots of fresh air (which they get in our long office-hours conversations), lots of weeding (to get to the lovely, intellectual core) and lots of support (which, hopefully, I give them by caring so much about what they think, believe, say and dream.)
It’s true: I’ll still hit the local farmer’s market of a Sunday to commune a bit with the gorgeous delicacies grown just for us by local farmers. However, that’s a luxury I can’t always afford, time-wise, and those 81 minutes I get from organic delivery means my cupboard and fridge are always stocked and ready to produce the meals that keep me teaching, learning, loving….
Oh, and I live, love and teach in Los Angeles!
I would go for a run.
I would read more books.
With 3 year old and 7 month old baby, I always have an excuse for not exercising . I can use extra 81 minutes I’m getting by ordering from spud! to stay fit!
And I’m from Vancouver, Beautiful British Columbia!
With my extra 81 minutes I’m going to turn the 20′ X 40′ area in the back yard into my very first veggie garden! It’s been the dumping spot for compost for over 30 years. I’ve cleaned it up, turned the compost under… and today I’m sore from trimming back all the plants around it yesterday. My seeds have already been started indoors and I have everything all planned out, I’m SO excited!!! This will give me something to do while the kids play outside this Summer and will give us all some seriously local food
But don’t worry SPUD! we’ll always need you too 
Wow, it’s the last day to submit an entry!
In 2009, I made a resolution to start eating better, including buying locally produced food and more organic produce. I had done really well to keep that resolution and signing up with Spud is helping me make it a life goal.
In 2010, I made a resolution to learn a musical instrument. I bought a ukulele in the beginning of February, having 81 minutes a week will help me practice the ukulele. If I win, I will post a video of me playing the ukulele.
Oh yeah, I am in Seattle, thanks!
What 81 minutes??! Since I changed my eating habits and made Spud my regular grocery service, I spend a lot more time preparing food, experimenting and Googling how to do things I have no idea how to do, plus all the ebay shopping for vintage kitchen gear to do things the old fashioned way. I never knew how hard it is to make chow mein turn out right every time, especially when you cook it with all organic ingredients. I get almost all of them for chow mein from Spud, except the mung bean sprouting seeds that I get from a seller on Amazon. I’m very seriously ill and don’t have a car, so I used to have to do my grocery shopping by taxi. And that’s a whole lot more expensive than shopping at Spud, not to mention the day and a half afterward that I’m not exhausted and strung out from the shopping trip. So actually, I get back a lot more time from Spud than just 81 minutes! And once I found out how much better it is to order my groceries online, I started doing all my shopping online. And even after I get well, I plan to keep living this way. It’s a lot more energy efficient for one driver to deliver to say 50 people than for those 50 people to all get in their cars to go shopping. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I would spend my extra time hiking and biking!
Vancity, BC
I totally use my 81 extra minutes to find new ways to organize my life, do yoga, play with my dog and enter internet contests that I would normally not have time to enter. Thanks Spud!
I Live in Calgary AB :0)
I just got a new sewing machine, and I’d spend some time creating more sweet projects like this one http://hypermodern.net/gallery/contemporary-art/recycling-oil-paintings-to-make-a-woven-collage/
I live in Ventura, CA…just north of Los Angeles.
Being a working mom I would spend some extra quality time with my young daughter. Extra hugs are alway nice
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forgot to add location: Vancouver, BC
Oops, I forgot to mention where I’m located. I’m in Lynnwood, WA, about 15 miles north of Seattle. But way too far away from any good natural food stores and farmers’ markets for someone who doesn’t have a car. Thank you Spud!
Hi, it’s Kristin again, the fitness enthusiast/magnet for front door dust bunnies. I forgot to note that I live in North Vancouver.
Me again with the new veggie garden! I’m here in Portland, Oregon!
Oops! I’m in Okotoks, Alberta!
I forgot to say my location— Pasadena CA!
Forgot my location! Shoreline WA!
I would go outside and play with the dog even more. It’s good for the both of us.
Kansas City, MO
I am from Seattle, WA Forgot to say my location above… oooppssssssss (~_~)
Sorry, I forgot to put my city. I am from Calgary AB. (my comment is above, re spending more time working on my novel.)
thanks!
Location: Barrie, ON
I am in Montreal, Qc !
I would be able to get more homework done without pulling my hair out!!
Thanks – I’ve already commented but forgot my location. Victoria BC!
I would spend that extra time working on the screenplay that I’ve been working on for several years now.
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