I had a hankering to try miso soup, so I headed down to Pakky where I found a packet of 12 individual packets of instant miso soup.  It was only after I'd been through the self-service checkout that I thought about the waste ramifications of what I'd done.

Also, I've gone back to buying my milk powder in foil packets from the supermarket instead of in bulk from Bin Inn because the price of the 1 kilo bags has dropped twice at Pak N Save since November, from $11.25 to $10.25 to $9.25, while the price at Bin Inn remains $11.90/kg.  We were told before Christmas that due to the drop in milk solid prices, we should  expect lower prices at the checkout for dairy products to filter through after Christmas... so I'm a bit disappointed that Bin Inn's price has remained the same.  I don't know if Bin Inn simply want to make extra profit or if their stock is genuinely pre-November; either way, Pak N Save's milk powder seems like a better choice at the moment.