Good news about supermarket gift cards!

Do you ever get gift cards for the supermarket?

You know, the annoying kind that say they are for 100 shekels, and then you go to the store and discover they are only worth 90 shekels, unless you shop at the most expensive stores of that chain (like Shufersal Sheli, or Mega Ba'Ir)? This has really annoyed me, any time I've had the pleasure of receiving a gift card! It was the kind of thing that really, really reduced the pleasure of the gift, sadly.

Well... that will be a thing of the past, it seems! 

Globes reported that the Knesset passed a law that requires all stores to honor gift cards at their face value. No more small print saying it's only worth 90% of the face value!

I only rarely find myself in receipt of gift cards, but I'm sure this is good news for lots of you!

Please let me know if this will make a difference for you!

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Shabbat!

This week I am actually writing out separate Friday Night and Shabbat Lunch menus. Because I'm overwhelmed. We're having some guests for Shabbat, and more for lunch than Friday night, so this is what happened...  and now I must get cooking and enlist some helpers!!

Friday Night

Whole Wheat Sweet Challot with Flaxseed (I'm out of oat bran)
Split Pea Soup
Roast Chicken
Bulgur with mushrooms and garlic
Apple Crisp
Spicy Sweet Potatoes
Israeli Salad

Lunch

Whole Wheat Sweet Challot with Flaxseed
Chicken Strips of some sort
Black Bean Cholent
Potato Kugel
Apple Crisp
Squash Kugel
Spicy Sweet Potatoes
Israeli Salad
Honey-Cinnamon Oranges


Dessert
Chocolate Chip Cake
Fruit

Also making:
Banana Breakfast muffins
various snacks -- not sure how much those 19 yr old boys will nosh on Friday night -- gotta be prepared!

What are you making?
Do you also get a little paranoid with 19 yr old boys visiting - wondering if you made enough food?