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Jun. 16th, 2019 07:44 pmSunday again, which means today I did the main weekly shop and sorted out my lunches for work during the coming week. Coles, the supermarket nearest my house, has a loyalty scheme happening at the moment, where you get points for spending so much, which you can then exchange for plastic food storage containers. And they are really good containers, much better quality than (a) I was expecting and (b) the ones I currently own. So today's excitement was that I had enough points to get my second free container. Whoo!
I have vague memories of being little, very little, and going shopping with my grandmother and getting sheets of stamps in what must have been a similar sort of customer loyalty scheme. Blue stamps, which could be exchanged for crockery. Fine white china with a sort of fluted edge. She had the bread and butter plates with matching cups and saucers. They were the middle rank of her crockery: too good for every day, but not as fancy as the very fine set with a sort of Art Deco button design she received as a wedding gift. Best used for visitors, but not really special ones.
One thing I enjoy about Sundays is that the magazine supplement in The Sunday Age includes a food column by Adam Liaw. He won one of the early seasons of Masterchef Australia and he is hands down the best winner they've ever had. Most weeks there is something in his column that I want to try, and that includes this week's brown bread and apple pudding, which I will be making later this week.
I have vague memories of being little, very little, and going shopping with my grandmother and getting sheets of stamps in what must have been a similar sort of customer loyalty scheme. Blue stamps, which could be exchanged for crockery. Fine white china with a sort of fluted edge. She had the bread and butter plates with matching cups and saucers. They were the middle rank of her crockery: too good for every day, but not as fancy as the very fine set with a sort of Art Deco button design she received as a wedding gift. Best used for visitors, but not really special ones.
One thing I enjoy about Sundays is that the magazine supplement in The Sunday Age includes a food column by Adam Liaw. He won one of the early seasons of Masterchef Australia and he is hands down the best winner they've ever had. Most weeks there is something in his column that I want to try, and that includes this week's brown bread and apple pudding, which I will be making later this week.