Time magazine had a very interesting and revealing piece on the world’s worst fast food – most of which was in the States. The meals included a particularily revolting looking ‘Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries’ which was a whopping 2,140 Calories – more than the recommended daily allowance. The article also featured a salad from [...]

Pie fans will be pleased to hear that the excellent UK chain Pieminister have set up a stall in the Point Village Market in Dublin’s Docklands, and will be selling their pies there every weekend throughout the summer. Via On the Record and multiple tipsters on Twitter.

In today’s Pricewatch, Paul Cullen explores the topic of misleading food labels. It’s a really useful, comprehensive article for anyone who’s ever picked up a shopping basket, with information on everything from environmental claims to the difficulty of tracing the origin of chicken and the use of meaningless terms such as “traditional” or “country-style.” There’s [...]

Note that it is international Grandmother’s Day on April 25th, and for the second year running Slow Food Ireland will be celebrating in earnest. How? By celebrating those precious skills that might otherwise be lost: think, baking cakes, sewing seeds and catching fish. Grandparents, Slow Food Ireland remind us, are the “guardians of inherited wisdom,” [...]

Since we started working on CheapEats last year, we’ve tried to bring you details of bargains and special offers in supermarkets, along with news and features on local shops and smaller producers. But, as Conor Pope points out in today’s Pricewatch, there are serious practical difficulties. In the UK, the enormously popular mysupermarket.co.uk provides real [...]

In today’s pricewatch, Conor Pope tackles the glamorous subject of coupon collecting and finds out the best way to use a loyalty card. Popular in the US and UK, it would appear that Irish consumers are also getting into coupon clipping with 30 per cent more people using coupons than in 2008. The Irish Independent [...]

It was so warm on Monday morning that I had my morning cup of tea in the sun and it was bliss. It has been such a long cold winter, I felt like a cave creature that had just crawled out of the darkness – pasty and squinty-eyed in the bright pure sun. I know [...]

I’ve never gone down the Weight Watchers route. Some of my friends, male and female, say it’s the only thing that works for them; I don’t really have an opinion one way or the other. However, over the weekend a good friend of mine called over, laden down with Weight Watchers snacks. I was cajoled [...]

In today’s Pricewatch, Conor Pope has a very useful article on buying Irish products in the supermarkets. He points out that it’s not always clear if a product has been produced in Ireland. A chicken breast from thousands of miles away can be labeled as Irish because the breadcrumb coating is applied here, while products [...]

It’s week two of Fairtrade Fortnight, and as well as asking people to choose Fairtrade when they’re shopping, Fairtrade advocates are also lobbying food producers to switch to Fairtrade ingredients.  The theme of Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 is tea, and Oxfam Ireland are asking Irish tea drinkers to lobby the two most popular Irish tea brands [...]