Special offers this week at Dunnes include: Frozen turkeys from €5.99 Brennan’s White Sliced Family Pan – €1 Green Isle Garden Peas – €1 Offers valid until Saturday December 5. Click here to see them all. Dunnes’ offers are much more alluring than other supermarket’s specials. Once again, well worth spreading your custom across different [...]

Special offers this week at Tesco include: Radox Handwash (300ml) or Imperial Leather Shower Gel (250ml) – 4 for €4 Denny Thick Cut Rashers (10 pack) – €3 Selection of half-price wines A resounding meh for these offers: no really good money savers here. Offers valid until Sunday December 6. Click here to see them [...]

New special offers at Superquinn, valid until Sunday December 13 include: 33% off salmon fillets, boneless pork loin chops, eye of round roast joint, Silian Or chicken fillets, and free range chickens All Christmas puddings reduced by 33% Irish crab claws and crab meat (weights vary) – reduced from €9.99 t0 €4.99 Fox’s Wonders (400g) [...]

Oxfam Ireland have generously provided us with two of their Fair Trade Luxury Christmas Hampers to give away. Each hamper contains a Fair Trade Christmas Cake, luxury chocolate, nuts, biscuits, tea, coffee and much more. One of these hampers will sort you out for all your Christmas treats, or you can pass it on as [...]

Special buys this Sunday at Aldi include: Toy super trucks – €9.99 Wooden train set – €24.99 In the Night Garden plush toy – €9.99 Click here to see all the cheap kid’s toys. Poor old recession hit Santa will be delighted. Also at Aldi, check out the Super6: a selection of fruit and vegetables [...]

The splendiferous Food & Wine Magazine Christmas Show takes place this weekend, and Food & Wine generously gave us three pairs of tickets to give away.  Random.org picked the following lucky winners: Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 48   9   24 Timestamp: 2009-11-27 11:10:19 UTC So congratulations to Mike, AshlingHayes and Aidan! Tickets [...]

This great recipe comes from Hazel McFadden, cookery tutor at The Kitchen in the Castle in Howth. A couple of years ago, Hazel taught me on a month-long professional cookery course, and she is a brilliant teacher – patient, precise, caring and fantastic at cooking. Hazel and her husband, chef Neil McFadden, are the creative [...]

Fruit and veg offers at Lidl from Thursday November 26 – Sunday Nov 29 include: Pears – half price – now 99c Round lettuce – half price – now 39c Vine tomatoes – reduced by 33% – now €1.99 You’ll also find Finish All in One dishwasher tablets (30 pack) reduced from €8.49 to €6.49, [...]

Christmas dinner is a very meat focused affair and although I do enjoy turkey, I think that turkey and ham are weird together. The sprouts are little green spheres of pure deliciousness but in general vegetables are a tad boring at Christmas and I think vegetarians get a bum deal on the day. Well, if [...]

It’s Thanksgiving tomorrow: the American national day of celebration which, like all the best holidays, is centered around a big delicious meal.  Thanksgiving food is absolutely incredible:  it’s a bit like Christmas dinner in that it has turkey as the centrepiece, and features potatoes and stuffing, but it also uses lots of exotic (to us) [...]