Regular readers will know that we’re big fans of M&S’s fantastic dine in for two offer. Yesterday, I picked up the main, side, dessert, and bottle of wine for just €12.50, a saving of €12.96. My dinner, the Cook Menu Chicken and Wiltshire Ham Pie, wasn’t the nicest meal I’ve ever had in M&S. No, [...]

I’m home alone for a few weeks, so I’ve doing a lot of cooking for one. Soups have become my staple: make a big batch and it lasts for a few days lunches and dinners. With no less than three open bags of red lentils recently discovered in the back of my press, I was [...]

FairTrade Fortnight runs until March 7, and this year’s theme is the Big Swap. Organisers are encouraging people to swap their usual shopping choices for FairTrade products. I always buy FairTrade whenever I can: bananas and chocolate being one of the staples. It was great to see Cadbury make thier Dairy Milks a FairTrade product, [...]

Weekly food offers at Lidl include: New season potatoes (2kg) – half price – now €1.49 Utterly Butterly – reduced from €1.49 to €1 Hovis Best of Both bread – reduced from €1.49 to €1 There’s a new set of weekly food offers every Monday. Click here to see them all. You’ll find even more [...]

The other day I came home from work and looked in the fridge. I had nothing to eat. NOTHING. And my pay cheque is not due for another week. I was really hungry. After sitting on the sofa for a full ten-minute huff, I went back to the fridge and looked again. There must be [...]

Our favourite stuff-your-face-with-quality-food bargain is back again, running from today until Sunday.  The selection includes: Mains: The Cook Menu Chicken & Wiltshire Ham Pie The Cook Menu Spanish Style Chicken & Chorizo Stew The Cook Menu Cajun Stuffed Chicken Breasts The Cook Menu Chicken with Davidstow Cheddar Gratin The Cook Menu Pork Medallions with Cider [...]

As usual, a strange and random set of special buys this Thursday at Aldi, including: Polo shirt – €5.99 Cadbury Easter mallows – €1.99 Galvanised plant pots – €24.99 Click here to see them all. I like a lot about this supermarket. Here I go again: the quality of Aldi brands,  in particular the Specially [...]

Sometimes, a deal is so good that the only response is for everybody to sit back and nod your head. See, you’re such a genius for finding it, that you don’t even need to speak. That’s how I felt last weekend in Cork, when I visited my friends Cat and Jimmy (pictured) and spent a [...]

My husband was recording in the house over the weekend and we had about a million people over. I made a ricky load of chilli and rice to keep the troops going – the chilli was scoffed but I had loads of leftover rice. What to do with it? Well, you can do a number [...]

It’s that time again: a new set of special offers at Superquinn. The specials are valid from today until Tuesday March 9, and include: Superquinn Irish striploin steak – reduced from €21.99 to €14.99 per kg Superquinn punnet of red grapes (500g) – reduced from €5.99 to €3 There’s also a great frozen food sale, [...]