As always, Easter is about family and feasts! For the Harris family, our feast is a paella, and we are lucky enough to have a gorgeous Columbian (now a true Aussie except if the Socceroos play Columbia) who starts her paella day at 6.00am and slaves at it for 6 hours but my god, the result speaks for itself.

For many families, it’s all seafood and of course seafood needs lemons, so all our stores have either a premium or an imperfect lemon to help make that happen. We have lots of other fantastic fruit on offer as well. Raspberries are definitely the pick of the berries, incredibly inexpensive for such a high demand period. Be particularly wary of strawberries this weekend, you will be lucky to get them home from the shop without loss, stick to the raspberries please.

We have a fabulous selection of grapes this weekend. My favourite is the black muscatels, they are eating fantastically but yes, they have seeds which seems to mean they are not on the shopping list of anyone under fifty but for we 70 plus year olds, we love them. By far, the most popular grape at the moment is our super premium extra-large white seedless grapes, dear but look and eat the part to adorn every easter feast table.

Other great fruit available includes of course avocados. We are at the crossroads of changing from old season West Australian Hass variety fruit, lots of people prefer to stick with these until the end of March, others prefer to change to the new season Shepards. We have Shepards either a premium or an imperfect on offer in all HFM stores this week.

Bananas are still cheap at HFM. They are of course the healthy snack. Imported navels are still fantastic and the first of the Aussie fruit is just around the corner. Finally, figs are still very good but again the end is near. The NSW stores have an excellent punnet fig until easter Thursday, hopefully after that, transport permitting.”