<p>What do students living off-campus do for grocery shopping? D1 will be living off campus next year, but won't have a car. What do students do for food shopping, especially for dairy and produce?</p>
<p>When the students move in, one or more parents can go with them to Costco or Target and they can buy large supplies of paper goods, laundry detergent, supply of non-perishables like canned tuna, brita pitcher and filters, etc… for general shopping beyond that, there may be some stores in walking or biking distance or they can use a bus, cab or if there ia zipcar, one person should register for zip car.</p>
<p>There’s a Foodmaster at the corner of Broadway and Route 16 in Somerville…walking distance from Tufts. There is a Whole Foods on Route 16 in Medford</p>
<p>Yes, my daughter lives in Hill Hall and walks to Whole Foods all the time- and took a bus home when it started raining one day- easy.</p>
<p>Thanks much, all!</p>
<p>The 96 runs straight to the Shaw’s in Porter. And zipcar is big.</p>
<p>My son takes a backpack to the Shaw’s. I think he usually walks. He’s cooked plenty of apple pies. He doesn’t drive.</p>
<p>When I lived in Somerville, I had one of those rolling baskets that, er, bag ladies use. Like this: [The</a> Container Store > Steel Shopping Cart](<a href=“http://www.containerstore.com/shop/kitchen/carts?productId=10007348]The”>http://www.containerstore.com/shop/kitchen/carts?productId=10007348)</p>
<p>I had to plan my trips carefully regarding both volume (paper towels OR toilet paper) and weight (laundry detergent OR soda). (But this was before the internet and the ability to order various dry goods online and have them delivered.) And I couldn’t, say, combine a trip to the grocery store with a trip to the laundromat (which was a pity, since both were in the same shopping center a bus ride away).</p>
<p>But, it was not impossible to do. I wish I had not lived at the very top of a very steep hill, however.</p>