Turkey is for life, not just for Christmas, says Garth McColgan, founder of FoodActive and resident chef at Aldi. Today, he has two quick, healthy, and delicious recipes exclusively for CheapEats readers. So, the gorging season has come to a close and I am dead keen, as I am sure you all are, to start [...]

I’m in Italy at the minute, and I’m eating so well. We all know the food is good in Italy. But the prices! I’m in the mountains of Tuscany, where workers and wives alike can pick up a fabulous three-course lunch for less than a tenner. Yesterday, I ate a gorgeous barley minestrone, followed by [...]

This is just one of infinite ways to use up your leftover chicken, which I will sporadically update you with. The whole chicken thing is my saviour at the minute; I can literally eke it out for three days, for me, my partner and 11-year-old stepdaughter. One thing I do splash out on in the [...]

Soups are the ultimate in cheap eats. My partner makes me soup all the time, and it’s always from what’s leftover in the fridge – halves of vegetables we’ve used for roasts, or bits of pepper/squash/onion/celery that you haven’t finished up. Soup-making is a great habit to get into; it’s at least a couple of [...]

Gourmet Burger Kitchen are currently doing all burgers for €5 until 5pm.  It’s a pretty sweet offer, as the burgers usually cost around the €10-€12 mark.  I went for lunch there yesterday with some of my colleagues, and it only cost us €41 for a big feed up for six people.  The chips are chunky [...]

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 [...]

Following on from Tuesday’s post on the merits of a packed lunch, here are a few more brown bag options for your consideration. If you have after work plans, the smokey meatball stew will keep you going right through to the last bus and the creamed mackerel sandwich filler is a healthy yet delicious combo. [...]

I’ve recently had two very satisfying, tasty and cheap Japanese lunches in Dublin for only €10 apiece.  Anyone who’s a fan of Japanese food will be familiar with bento boxes: compartmentalised lunch boxes containing a variety of snacks, arranged in the aesthetically appealing way we expect from Japanese cuisine. A couple of weeks ago, I [...]

Although there are good lunchtime deals on offer these days, it is still a fact that packing your own lunch will save you money; even my cat knows that. By spending €2 on a morning coffee and €5 on lunch, you could potentially spend €1,800 a year. That’s €9,000 over five years and a possible [...]

By Catriona McGrath Since Peter is ‘ill’ with what he claims is swine flu, I will kindly fill space on CheapEats.  Fortunately for him, I’ve been looking for a forum for my sandwich rant. Like many people I’m a fan of the sandwich. Stick pretty much anything between two slices of bread and I’m fairly [...]