I have to agree on the Dubliner cheese, it’s wonderful stuff and you can even by the slices without too much shame. I love it with some crackers and a Granny Smith.
As for salsa, the brand of salsa on sale in Taco, Taco in the Epicurean food hall is absolutely gorgeous – admittedly its expensive, somewhere between 5 and 6 euro but the throaty heat and chunks of chilly make it instanntly addictive. I make dinners to just put this salsa with it!
I’m all about the healthy eating at the moment, and there are far too many crappy low-fat branded goods out there. So thumbs up to Hellmann’s mayo (they make the only decent low fat one I’ve ever tasted) and Glenisk’s low fat yogurts, which are amazingly decadent.
I buy own Aldi/Lidl/Tesco own brand for most BUT have to get:
Glenisk Yogurts
Nescafe Gold
Avonmore Supermilk
Heinz or Batchelor’s Beans
Heinz Ketchup
Oxos
Tetley’s Tea
Tesco – Garlic Cream Cheese, Californian raisins, Spicy pepper pasta jar sauce
Fairy Liquid the only one I buy also
I’ve never had Frank’s Hot sauce but I buy 1 litre bottles of hot sauce in Asia Market – comes in Medium and Hot, can be added uncooked – brilliant! Think it’s about 2euro.
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 11:53 am
Has to be Kerrygold butter for la Spud. None of the imitators even come close.
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 11:55 am
The sauces really
Heinz ketchup.
A1 steak sauce.
Frank’s hot sauce.
And, er, Peter Pan peanut butter (not technically a sauce)
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 12:11 pm
weetabix, bunalun organic porrige, ballymaloe relish
other than that i am very sway-able!
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I have to agree on the Dubliner cheese, it’s wonderful stuff and you can even by the slices without too much shame. I love it with some crackers and a Granny Smith.
As for salsa, the brand of salsa on sale in Taco, Taco in the Epicurean food hall is absolutely gorgeous – admittedly its expensive, somewhere between 5 and 6 euro but the throaty heat and chunks of chilly make it instanntly addictive. I make dinners to just put this salsa with it!
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Diet Coke. When I was being ridiculously frugal last summer I switched to the Aldi 49c brand for a few weeks – a sad, dark period of my life
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I’m all about the healthy eating at the moment, and there are far too many crappy low-fat branded goods out there. So thumbs up to Hellmann’s mayo (they make the only decent low fat one I’ve ever tasted) and Glenisk’s low fat yogurts, which are amazingly decadent.
I’m also a Barry’s tea girl, through and through.
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 3:05 pm
That salsa is €1.59 in Tesco.
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Kerrygold butter
Barry’s Tea
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 5:21 pm
It has to be Avonmore Tomato Soup and Cadbury’s Dairy Milk for me!
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Is it just me or does Dubliner cheese taste gritty? Kind of like it’s been resting on a sandy beach towel.
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Another vote for Franks Hot Sauce, I would be open to suggestions of an alternative though.
Wednesday 11 March, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Premier Dairies Milk – refuse to buy anything else.
Ballymaloe Relish
Sacla Sun Dried Tomato Pesto – I put it on everything
Thursday 12 March, 2009 at 9:33 am
It’s not a food, but Fairy is by far the best washing up liquid. Gotta have it!
Thursday 12 March, 2009 at 2:46 pm
@pdizzle – Sacla pesto is amazing
but, again,
Heniz ketchup,
Diet Coke
Cadbury’s Dairy Milk
… can’t argue with those.
Tuesday 17 March, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Tayto crisps mmm..
Sunday 22 March, 2009 at 12:08 am
Heinz ketchup
Hellman’s mayo
Dubliner Cheese
Cadbury’s Dairy Milk
Barry’s Tea
Ballymaloe Relish
Aldi NFC Apple and Orange juice
Tesco Organic Butter
They’re the ones I have to have.
Monday 23 March, 2009 at 11:13 am
I buy own Aldi/Lidl/Tesco own brand for most BUT have to get:
Glenisk Yogurts
Nescafe Gold
Avonmore Supermilk
Heinz or Batchelor’s Beans
Heinz Ketchup
Oxos
Tetley’s Tea
Tesco – Garlic Cream Cheese, Californian raisins, Spicy pepper pasta jar sauce
Fairy Liquid the only one I buy also
I’ve never had Frank’s Hot sauce but I buy 1 litre bottles of hot sauce in Asia Market – comes in Medium and Hot, can be added uncooked – brilliant! Think it’s about 2euro.
Friday 27 March, 2009 at 1:17 am
chef ketchup all the way.i am totally addicted to ketchup i will eat it on anything.heinz is just too bland.