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Gluten free, dairy free, soy free, and refined sugar free. The only thing the Rundle General Store isn’t free of is delicious homemade goodies and high-quality organic produce.
Rundle Street Store, with the help of Renew Adelaide, opened their doors on Thursday February 10. They are now ready to share with you their unique and highly desirable offering.
This little, multi-faceted store is an organic grocer, allergy friendly café, and bulk wholefoods provider, for those with a selection of hard-to-cater-for dietary requirements.
The owners are a family trio, who shared similar passions.
Mum Yasmine Brunner and daughters Anja and Maya have a myriad of allergies and used to find it challenging to do the grocery shop or eat at a restaurant.
“We found eating impossible to do,” said Maya.
“So now we offer real, sustainable food to feed everyone.”
Maya is the certified nutritionist out of the bunch, but all three women are passionate cooks and DIY queens.
They started their foodie journey at a Adelaide Farmers’ Market food stall, based at Wayville Showground. Their stall featured some of Maya’s homemade vegan cakes, which caught the eye of Renew Adelaide. The rest, as they say, is history.
When you walk into the Rundle General Store, the first thing you notice is the raw, exposed interior. The floor boards have been freshly sanded and stained, decorated with mismatched chairs, tables, and a repurposed grate here and there.
You’ll also be delighted to know that all the furniture (apart from the purpose-built shelves lining the walls) is upcycled. Most of the furniture was found on the side of roads, gifted from neighbours, and sourced on gumtree.
“This pink armchair I’m sitting on right now was from a neighbour a few doors down from us,” said Anja.
“They were just going to chuck it, but we asked if we could keep it.”
The three women also did most of the renovation work. They stained the floors, painted the walls, sourced the furniture, and built the vegetable-grate-turned-front-desk, which holds all the chillies.
“We did as much as we could ourselves; we even cut and laid all the tiles,” said Yasmine.
When asked if they had any tiling experience, Maya said they had watched an instructional Bunnings video, before laughing.
Albeit not professional tilers, the trio do have a mixture of qualifications, from nursing and property valuing, to owning businesses and yoga/fitness training.
But organic, environmentally-friendly and allergy-friendly food is the clear winner, as it brought the group of three together under a collective passion (and hatred for doing dishes).
“We also don’t use dishes, we use BioPak plates,” said Anja.
“Compostable packaging means no dishes. No dishes means no unnecessary water waste from dish-washing.
“We’re all about that hippy life.”
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Rundle General Store 3/186 Rundle Street, Adelaide.
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