Our favourite supermarket offer is back on in Marks & Spencer shops till Tuesday, and it’s perfect for this hibernating time of year.  They have a couple of healthy-ish options on the list this time, such as the whole chicken, the salmon fillets or the ‘lightly dusted lemon sole’. (I wish they’d say what it’s [...]

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The first M&S Dine in for Two of the year kicks off today.  We’re on a predictable but necessary healthy eating buzz at the moment, and this fortnight’s menu is a bit heavy on the melted cheese and cream.  The topped plaice may be ok, depending on what it’s topped with of course, and there’s [...]

Plenty of new offers for the new year in the supermarkets and convenience stores. How are you getting on with resisting the slashed-price Christmas chocolates? Special offers at Aldi Special offers at Lidl Special offers at SuperValu Special offers at Dunnes Special offers at Superquinn Special offers at Centra Special offers at Londis Special offers at Mace Special offers at Spar Special offers [...]

The Grand Social, one of the best pubs in Dublin, serves delicious big soup cups of Irish stew, packed with meat and veg and full of flavour and heartiness, with two slices of buttered McCambridge’s bread, for just €5. For €8, you can have stew and a pint of your choice. It’s served all day [...]

Here comes Christmas. It’s bumper time for retailers, and they should be offering us the sun, moon, and stars to win over our business. With judicious shopping across the supermarkets, you should be able to cut the cost – just watch out for the usual ruses. So we know that Aldi and Lidl are great [...]

Put on your stretchy Christmas pants. Next year, Europe is probably going to pull the world into the abyss once again, so I think people should make an effort to enjoy Christmas as much as they can. Oh yeah, money: nobody has any. Or, to put it another way, a small few well-insulated, and cosseted [...]

Out of cream! Out of crisps! No more pickles! A Quality Street crisis… Christmas is one of those weird, insanely voracious times of year when the whole day can be ruined by the absence of mustard, cream soda, or vol-au-vent cases. There seems to be an awful lot of nipping out to the shops. Now, [...]

The wonderful M&S Dine in for Two offer is back, running from Thursday until Tuesday. Pick up a main, side, dessert, and wine for two for the absurdly reasonable price of €12.50. This weekend’s menu includes fish pies, gammon steaks, chocolate souffles, the amazing lemon drizzle traybake, and a large choice of wine. Full menu [...]

Are supermarket offers really all they’ve cracked up to be? Tonight, BBC’s Panaroma programme runs an episode entitled “The Truth About Supermarket Price Wars”, highlighting: How some packed fruit and veg are cheaper when bought loose How some products sold as deals are the same price as always How supermarkets raise their prices for a [...]