Food Miracles

Two amazing things happened this week that involves food.

Firstly, my dad (bless him) spent $43.45 to send me a box full of donuts, home-made cookies, Wheaties and root beer flavoring. It took a while to get here, but these eleven-day-old donuts were better than anything that I've had while I've been here! Oh, I love Dunford donuts. Lucky for me, I'm from Sandy!

The cookies were amazing, no one really makes chocolate chip cookies here. You can't even really buy chocolate chips at the store.... well you can, but it's this tiny little pack that would make like four cookies. I don't know how people live, they just make ginger cookies. Definitely NOT as good. Wheaties are my favorite cereal and breakfast was basically like heaven this morning. I only like one cereal here, Special K. They have a lot of the "same" cereals but they put nasty stuff in them like barley so it just has less flavor and is nasty.

Root beer flavoring is also delightful. The past month I have been craving root beer but there is none to be found. Plus, if you did find it, it'd be nasty or really expensive for like 100 mL, not ideal. If you wanted to make root beer floats (especially with more than one person) it'd be a large ordeal. This way, I can make as much root beer as I want for almost nothing. All I need is sugar, water and carbonated water. Lucky for me, Europe is really big on "sparkling water." Super cheap. Love it. No root beer floats yet but the time will soon come.

The second food miracle happened yesterday. I was sitting at home and all my housemates were gone. The doorbell rings, it's the pizza man. Apparently some guy that I had never heard of ordered pizza for 101 Cranbrook (that's my flat) and it was pre-paid. I told the pizza guy I didn't order any pizza and I didn't know who the guy was and he says, "Hey, then you get free food." I took the pizza and waited awhile, maybe in case some guy showed up asking for his pizza. Melanie came home and we decided that we didn't want to waste it! Along with the pizza, there was also cookies with toffee and chocolate dipping sauce, chicken wings and coke (I don't drink it but Ina was excited for it). We had a lovely dinner and it was very delicious.