A new set of special offers this week at Tesco includes: Hunky Dory’s Assorted Crisps – half price – was €3.40, now €1.70 Kilmeaden Fully Mature Red and White Cheddar and Kilmeaden Red and White Cheddar (230g) – Buy One Get One Free Beck’s Beer, 18 x 275ml – €12.49 (69c per bottle) Offers are [...]

Back-to-school specials this week at Dunnes Stores include: Innocent Smoothies for Kids (4 x 180ml) – half-price – €1.99 Shaw’s Carved/ Crumbed Ham (250g) – half-price – €2.87 Dunnes Kids Fruit Lunch Box (400g) – half price – €1.69 These offers are valid until September 5 2009. For more special offers at Dunnes, click here, [...]

Special offers at Sainsbury’s this week include: Sainsbury’s Quiche: Brocolli, Cheese and Tomato (400g) – buy 2 for £3.00 (£1.88 each) Filippo Berio Olive Oil and Extra Virgin Olive Oil (500ml) – was £3.41, now £2.27 Fairy Platinum Dishwasher Tablets (22) – was £6.78, now £3.39 Expiry dates range from September 1-15. Click here for [...]

That’s all folks. Yet again we threw boxes of pigeons among you cats and legged it away: this week we debated good and bad sandwich making, whether chopsticks have a place at the dinner table, the price of sugary drinks, and the officious, self-serving stupidity of professional finger-waggers Meas, an issue I’ve had to restrain [...]

I met my friend Marc for lunch yesterday, and we ended up in The Reader’s Cafe in Waterstone’s on Dawson St. Some of you may remember Jean pointing and laughing at a rubbish offer they had a few months back: scrambled eggs and tea or coffee for €6.75. But it got better. A few weeks [...]

I noticed this large shiny sign in the window of Ray’s Pizza, beside the Foggy Dew at the Central Bank. Three euro for a slice of cheese pizza, and four for a pepperoni slice! Sheesh… A full pizza in most similar places might be around the €10  mark, and contain, let’s say, six slices. So [...]

Our favourite promotion is on again this weekend: dinner for two for €12.50 in M&S.  This week the choice includes: Mains: British Steak The Grill Ginger, Lime & Coriander Chicken Breast Fresh to dress Seabass with Mediterranean Dressing Cook! Chicken Breasts with Mozzarella & Pesto Cook! Lemon Sole Fillets with White Wine & Herb Butter [...]

Special buys at Aldi this Thursday August 27 include: Ratchet Pruner – €5.99 Cadbury Chocolate Fingers – 99c Tayto Bumper Bundle (5 Sxax, 5 Wheelies, 5 Chickatees) – €3.29 Special buys at Aldi for Sunday August 30 include: Free to air Satellite System (100′s of channels) – €69.99 Chisel Set – €8.99 Long Handle Roller [...]

This week’s food offers at Lidl include half-price blueberries, oranges, apples, lettuce, tomato and radishes. There’ll be new food offers from next Monday. Click here to see the current specials. Special buys for Thursday August 27 include: CD Language Course – €9.99 Livarno Office Chair – €49.99 Comfort Speakerphone – €11.99 Special buys for Monday [...]

A couple of weeks ago, my subconscious mind started shouting that it wanted to try Crab Linguine, and kept at it until I found some tinned crab.  I used to see it everywhere, but couldn’t find it in Tesco or Dunnes or even middle-class paradise Fallon & Byrnes.  I finally managed to find some in [...]