If your kids are fed up with ham sandwiches, Aldi‘s resident chef, Garth McColgan of Food Active, has some handy tips and tricks for a healthy school lunchbox, exclusively for CheapEats. They’re not bad as snacks for adults either! By Garth McColgan 1. Banana and Nutella Sandwich There is an amount of refined sugar in [...]

Sadly Keith Floyd, the booziest and funniest of all chefs, passed away on Monday. He was a legend. Best known for his haphazard presenting and his penchant for knocking back the vino while he was at it; kind of reminds me of my husband come to think of it. The original TV chef produced some [...]

The good folk at RTE’s The Afternoon Show have been in touch to let us know about a new segment on the programme: Beat the Chef. They’re looking for viewers who fancy going up against the show’s chefs with their favourite dish. For example, if you do a mean moussaka or a cheese cake, their [...]

Top Irish chef Garth McColgan has a perfect Valentine’s night recipe: Lover’s Prawns. McColgan runs Food Active, which aims to teach young people about good food, and also provides inexpensive recipes for Aldi. Lover’s Prawns Ingredients 1 pack Giant Butterfly Prawns 10 slices of Parma Ham Juice of half a Lemon 1 clove Garlic, very [...]

Want to give a gift that is inexpensive and really thoughtful, not to mention delicious? I wrote an article for the Irish Independent Fine Wine and Food magazine, published last Tuesday December 9, about getting organised with food for Christmas. As part of this, I spoke to Nafisa Brennan, owner of organic spice company Orgapod [...]