Pricewatch – one of CheapEats’ favourite newspaper columns – returns in today’s Irish Times after the summer break. Conor Pope has some great tips on how to spend less in the supermarket, including my personal favourite:

Avoid value-added stuff: Bagged salad, grated cheese and pre-chopped onions are enemies of the budget conscious and cost as much as 300 per cent more than the constituent parts beside them on the shelves.

Click here to see all tips. Also in today’s Pricewatch, there’s a great article on organic food to coincide with National Organic Food Week. Surprisingly, sales have gone up by 16% in the past year of thrift. We’ll be writing more about organic food throughout the week.

Last, Pope taste-tests cupcakes. We’ve written about cupcakes here before, and we’ll have more to say about one particularly delicious purveyor later in the week*. No, it’s not my shockingly excellent cake-baking sister – not yet anyway. She remains to be convinced that she should quit her secure day job and set up her own bakery. But I’m working on it.

*Originally planned to write about this early this week, but other posts came in. Hold your horses, cupcake fiends.

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3. Shrewd food in Pricewatch