M&S’s Dine in for Two for €12.50 offer must be one of the most attractive and successful supermarket special offers of recent years. It’s been running for ages now, consists of a great selection of unfeasibly luxurious food (both ready-made meals and fresh ingredients to cook) and is clearly hugely popular.  I’ve seen people charging [...]

M&S recently sent me some items from their new Mexican selection, and it’s confirmed my new found grá for this cuisine. I’m consuming large amounts of burritos and fajitas lately; I ate out at Boojum earlier this week, I’m a big fan of Pablo Picante’s and Taco Taco, and I’m looking forward to trying out [...]

I have a problem with Aldi: there’s not enough branches around Dublin. In particular, south-east Dublin, and the Dun Laoghaire area. Their range easily wipes the floor with Lidl’s offerings, but I find myself having to travel all the way to Nutgrove to get those goodies.
Aldi recently picked up 12 titles at the UK and [...]

Current specials at Tesco include:

Keeling’s strawberries (300g, €4.99), raspberries (125g, €3.99), blackberries (125g, €3.99) - buy any 2 for €6
Fresh Irish Finest Angus Sirloin (€4 each) - 2 for €7
Nestle Coco Shreddies (500g, €2.49), Honey Cheerio’s (600g, €3.75), Oat Cheerios or Oats More Honey (400g, €2.99) - buy one get one free

Offer expiry dates vary. [...]

Asian food absolutely rocks but I always feel that shop bought noodles let a good stir-fry down. However, I have recently discovered wholegrain noodles which are a complete revelation.
As a general rule I try and eat as much wholefoods as possible; I’ve eaten brown rice for years and changed over to wholegrain pasta a few [...]

Leaving Cert economics: snob value. You buy something precisely because it is expensive and hard to find.
Following a few weeks where I turned from food, I found myself in Liston’s on Camden St. and felt like splashing out on some fancy foods. I got some delicious Killowen yogurt but was really drawn in by chocolate.
I’d [...]

Last weekend, Jean, Rercy and I joined a group of lovely friends on a beautiful riverside picnic - particular kudos to Lou for her impeccable quiche - and had a most enjoyable day. I brought along some bottles of Crabbie’s alcoholic ginger beer, for which I was raised on everyone’s shoulders and declared a hero.
Eh, [...]

While in Dun Laoghaire, join the queue for Teddy’s ice cream. Teddy’s has been around since forever, and it really is the sweetest, creamiest and freshest whipped ice-cream you’ll ever taste. Sometimes, whipped ice cream can have an artificial or even metallic taste. Teddy’s, however, tastes as though it’s gone from cow to ice cream [...]

Special offers this week at Dunnes include:

Shaw’s crumbed/ carved ham family pack (260g) - half price - now €2.87
Sun All in One dishwasher tablets (40’s) - 2 for €6
Blossom Hill wines - reduced from €7.80 to €5.99

Offers are valid until May 11. Click here for more information.
If you fancy a cheap, cheap (and kind of [...]

Now, I don’t want to cause any offense to diabetics or those who are cutting out sugar from their diet. But we all have our unfounded food prejudices, whether that’s my (now corrected) ignorant belief that Mexican food is “samey” or that diabetic friendly chocolates and jellies are as delicious as a pile of concrete.
But [...]