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THE dinner party is back. That sentence filled me with dread. It's not that I don't love entertaining -- I do, it's great fun -- but it's the sheer cost and fiddle.
Yes, we all used to do impressive menus of horribly expensive ingredients and difficult menus, but when my friends decided dinner parties were way too much like hard work -- plus they all had jobs in banks and law firms, so they had money to burn -- and started eating out in fancy restaurants, frankly it was a relief.See the full content of this document
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Credit Crunch Cuisine! ; As Lidl Unveils the [Pounds]4.99 Lobster, We Prove You Can Create Three-Course Gourmet Meals for Four for Just [Pounds]10
So the news that, as a consequence of these uncertain financial times we live in, we have to have dinner parties at home again -- my home, too -- made me fear the enormous cost of it all. But then it was revealed this weekend that Lidl is selling a cooked lobster for a sensational [pounds]4.99.
It seems we can all afford to have a little...See the full content of this document
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