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Sainsbury's website had some great ideas for heart-shape foods. My favourites are:
1 Fried egg cooked in a heart-shape hole cut in toast.
2 Lightly boiled egg squeezed into heart shape by pressing base into v-shape card, and making an indentation on top with a chopstick, washed pencil or similar
3 Heart shape bread for biscuit with red topping. (Savoury eg beetroot or sweet eg jam (called jelly in the USA), jelly (called Jello which is a brand name in the USA) and/ or red squashed or pureed fruit.
Travelling the UK
If you are travelling around before Valentine's day, look for some special dinners in restaurants, themed pubs, and heart shape crockery displays in department stores.
After Valentine's day look for discounts on the heart-shape crockery. In Brent Cross shopping centre try Fenwicks department store crockery department.
Travelling In Singapore
If you are planning a trip which takes place before or during Valentine's Day, you can spend time during your rest at the airport or on the plane noting down in your diary some Happy Valentine's Day stories.
Toastmasters International Clubs
If you go to a speakers' club in Singapore not just on Valentine's Day but during the month of February, meetings will have the themes Love and Valentines. You may be asked:
What will you do on Valentine's Day?
What do you do if you don't have a Valentine?
What was your best Valentine's Day.
What was your best present?(Given received, seen in shops.)
What was your worst present? (Given, received, seen in shops.)
If you are looking for something on a budget, try Daeso, Valu, or even the pharmacies such as Guardian and Watson.
Popular bookstore has items such as heart-shape notebooks or Post-its. Now everybody seems to be in on the festival of love, not just courting couples but married couples, children and teachers, children and parents, brothers and sisters. You can buy not only cards showing hugging bears but pairs of hugging stuffed toys.
Daiso Stores
Here's a heart shape espresso cup and saucer I bought in Daeso in Singapore for only two (Singapore) dollars, the same price charged for every item in Daeso.
Daiso is a Japanese brand store, everything the same price. I found branches in Ion in the centre of Singapore and in the mall a couple of blocks away from the last stop going north at the end of the Downtown line, Bukit Panjang. You can see two malls, Junction 10 and Bukit Panjang Plaza.
In Daeso I saw a set of cookie cutters in the four playing card shapes, clubs, diamonds, spades and hearts. I think they also sold a set of three heart shape cutters in varying sizes, nesting inside each other.
UK - Lakeland stores
In the UK the place to find this sort of thing is Lakeland cookery utensil stores. They have a branch in Watford and a website. They stock a huge variety of cookie cutters as well as seasonal items.
https://www.homemadebyyou.co.uk/articles/tips/4-hopelessly-romantic-breakfasts-for-valentines-day
Angela Lansbury travel writer and photographer.
Heart shape pendant
Heart shape toast, using a heard shape cutout (or fold the bread and use a piece of paper as a template).
Heart shape crumpet sold in supermarket.
Heart shape crumpet white plate.
Sainsbury's website had some great ideas for heart-shape foods. My favourites are:
1 Fried egg cooked in a heart-shape hole cut in toast.
2 Lightly boiled egg squeezed into heart shape by pressing base into v-shape card, and making an indentation on top with a chopstick, washed pencil or similar
3 Heart shape bread for biscuit with red topping. (Savoury eg beetroot or sweet eg jam (called jelly in the USA), jelly (called Jello which is a brand name in the USA) and/ or red squashed or pureed fruit.Travelling the UK
If you are travelling around before Valentine's day, look for some special dinners in restaurants, themed pubs, and heart shape crockery displays in department stores.
After Valentine's day look for discounts on the heart-shape crockery. In Brent Cross shopping centre try Fenwicks department store crockery department.
Travelling In Singapore
If you are planning a trip which takes place before or during Valentine's Day, you can spend time during your rest at the airport or on the plane noting down in your diary some Happy Valentine's Day stories.
Toastmasters International Clubs
If you go to a speakers' club in Singapore not just on Valentine's Day but during the month of February, meetings will have the themes Love and Valentines. You may be asked:
What will you do on Valentine's Day?
What do you do if you don't have a Valentine?
What was your best Valentine's Day.
What was your best present?(Given received, seen in shops.)
What was your worst present? (Given, received, seen in shops.)
If you are looking for something on a budget, try Daeso, Valu, or even the pharmacies such as Guardian and Watson.
Popular bookstore has items such as heart-shape notebooks or Post-its. Now everybody seems to be in on the festival of love, not just courting couples but married couples, children and teachers, children and parents, brothers and sisters. You can buy not only cards showing hugging bears but pairs of hugging stuffed toys.
Daiso Stores
Here's a heart shape espresso cup and saucer I bought in Daeso in Singapore for only two (Singapore) dollars, the same price charged for every item in Daeso.
Daiso is a Japanese brand store, everything the same price. I found branches in Ion in the centre of Singapore and in the mall a couple of blocks away from the last stop going north at the end of the Downtown line, Bukit Panjang. You can see two malls, Junction 10 and Bukit Panjang Plaza.
UK - Lakeland stores
In the UK the place to find this sort of thing is Lakeland cookery utensil stores. They have a branch in Watford and a website. They stock a huge variety of cookie cutters as well as seasonal items.
https://www.homemadebyyou.co.uk/articles/tips/4-hopelessly-romantic-breakfasts-for-valentines-day
Angela Lansbury travel writer and photographer.
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