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- Apr 25
Supermodel pasta
"Overall, you can’t go wrong with a pasta recipe, and this one is easy to make and absolutely delicious. Plus, you can make it your own...
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- Apr 24
Specks
"Speck - a tiny patch or spot" Vocabulary.com Speck So these are not really specks - they are too big, but it is Speck with a capital S...
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- Apr 22
A quote
"Danes are right to obsess about food because eating it is what freed Adam and Eve from Eden, allowing humans to think and make...
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- Apr 21
Is Aldi really cheaper than the other two?
Yes - but not as much as you might think - and also ... First thing to say - I know this has been done before. Everything has been done...
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- Apr 17
Being clever doesn't necessarily mean being right
"It's not food if it's called by the same name in every language." Michael Pollan That statement is in Michael Pollan's book Food Rules:...
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- Apr 10
Spam - yes spam
"the ham that failed its physical" American troops WW2 The human animal is a creative soul is it not? Also very adaptive. It can make...
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- Apr 4
The wonderful world of ramen
"For all that Japan has invented in the 20th century, the digital clock, Walkman, Nintendo and Pokemon, the Japanese consider their...
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- Feb 10
Eat food - rule no.1
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Michael Pollan The above quote is probably the most famous modern quote on food around. It...
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- Jan 11
By the way
"By the way - used to introduce a new subject to be considered or to give further information" Cambridge English Dictionary Yes it's one...
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- Jan 8
Success does not necessarily mean quality
"I work for compensation, not in exchange for product or “exposure.” Long-term relationships with brands and products that I love is...
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- Jan 5
Healthy?
“There were no significant differences between health food snacks and regular aisle snacks in terms of energy, saturated fat or sodium." ...
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- Dec 29, 2022
Purveyor of necessities or successful entrepreneur?
"one who provides necessities and supplies" Online Etymology Dictionary The book on the left is one I am considering placing in our...
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- Dec 21, 2022
Excess
"You can’t just push the door and walk in; no… here you ring a bell, and wait for the door to be opened and for you to be greeted. It...
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- Dec 10, 2022
Just to show I'm not biased
“Creatively, we approached Christmas with the same care and authenticity as Woollies by leaning into the heart of the brand - family, fun...
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- Dec 9, 2022
Ordinary people - marketing plus
"We know every family has treasured festive recipes with rich stories attached to them. So we went in search of them from all around...
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- Nov 19, 2022
The ethics of shopping
"Is anything sustainable foodwise?" my sister Jenny I know I've talked about this before - the difficulty - no downright impossibility...
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- Oct 27, 2022
Biscoff for a rainy day
"it is as if the deep flavour of the coffee and unique taste and crunchiness of the Lotus Biscoff biscuit were made for each other." ...
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- Sep 22, 2022
Normality - a Coles shop
This is our second day back in Melbourne and today we did a biggish shop. Yesterday we shopped but only for what we immediately needed -...
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- Sep 15, 2022
Sugar cane
"reeds that produce honey without bees" Yesterday we journeyed to the beautiful Mossman Gorge in the Daintree. As any of you have been...
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- Aug 29, 2022
The guilty satisfaction of empty things
By things I mean jars, bottles, packets, tins ... all the things containing all the consumables you use in your lifetime. By...
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