Fresh ideas for menu planning

IT wasn’t a particularly unusual order, or so celebrity chef Catherine Fulvio thought. She stopped off at her local shop one January evening to buy some fresh veg for a mid-week family stirfry, but was assailed by a tinfoil egg mountain.

“I thought maybe that I had imagined it — dark ones, milk ones, white ones, kids’ eggs, eggs in cups, eggs, eggs everywhere, but very few fresh vegetables,” Catherine says.

She took a picture to prove she wasn’t hallucinating and posted the evidence on Facebook to put her experience to the social media test. It created a virtual storm. Her comment — “NO, no, no, it’s way too early for Easter” — was viewed over 2,000 times and there was a raft of supporting comments.