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Soy latte with the sourdough … but no offal in our COVID diet – Sydney Morning Herald
Data on our food buying habits shows just how Australians gorged their way through the coronavirus lockdown.
Despite the restrictions put in place by supermarkets, sales of flour jumped by 15.5 per cent to more than 315,000 tonnes while bread makers increased their purchases of yeast by more than 6 per cent.
We bought more berries (up 9.2 per cent) while drought and fire reduced the supply of apples, pears and stone fruits, which all suffered a fall in purchases.
Of the 550,000 extra tonnes of food and drink bought in the year, almost 40 per cent was on so-called discretionary foods.
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