Great advice from Pricewatch’s Conor Pope in today’s Irish Times. In a column on bucking the downturn, he writes:

SAY NO TO READY-MEALS : The ready-meal sector has grown significantly as cash-rich, time-poor shoppers sought out nice food without the hassle factor. Ready-meals can be five times as expensive as the constituent parts of that meal sitting on the same supermarket shelves just a few metres away. It really doesn’t take that much effort to fry a steak and bake a potato that are just as good, even if they haven’t been tarted up to look as super-tasty as possible.

Also in Pricewatch today, Pope does taste tests on filled pasta.

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