At last! Tomorrow, Aldi are opening up in Sandyford, south county Dublin. If, like me, you refused to drive past several branches of Lidl to get to Aldi in Nutgrove, this will be very good news indeed. Aldi don’t stock the very amazing Fruchtsaft or cheap organic potatoes – until they do, I won’t be [...]
Guzzle Puzzle is for kids, right? So when, oddly, a few packets of The Natural Confectionary Company’s new product arrived in my letterbox from a PR company, I figured I’d ask my nephew for his opinion. Here’s his view: Guzzle Puzzle Review By Jacob Haskins, aged 9 Guzzle Puzzle tastes exactly like Jelly Worms, made [...]
I might be missing something here. Over the past few years, luxury expensive food shop Donnybrook Fair has been popping up all over wealthy Dublin suburbs. Most recently, they’ve appeared up in Stillorgan shopping centre, right beside Tesco (on a side note, I wonder what Stillorgan’s anchor tenant thinks of its new neighbour). It doesn’t seem [...]
Summer is a time of salad. But it’s also a time of ice cream, meaty barbeques, fish and chips by the beach, and cream with everything. Aldi recently sent me samples of their Killeigh Farm Luxury Irish Low Fat Frozen Yogurt. I’ve always questioned the logic of frozen yoghurt – is it just a lower fat [...]
Summer is a lovely time for Irish food bloggers, with various festivals and events giving us a chance to try out some of the best fare on offer. One of the highlights is the Marks and Spencer barbeque, popular with liggers, which showcases a selection of summer foods. Jean and I headed along a few [...]
I mostly work from home, and usually fix my own lunch. My staples: soups, salads, and beans on toast. Followed by a proper dinner. So I was proper delighted when a big giant box of soups and pasta sauces were couriered to me from GLORIOUS! soups; there was enough here to feed me for two [...]
Yawning spaces opened up in the fridge. Lonely potatoes and tomatoes felt conspicuously exposed in the presses. There was a freezer full of long-forgotten sauces. Meanwhile, an excess of herbs, spices, and assorted condiments shrugged their shoulders, unsure how they could help. But I was determined to eat what I had. With a visit to [...]
Over the past few weeks, the supermarkets have generously sent me assorted pancakes and toppings to review. I’m all pancaked out now, so I think I’ll have a curry for dinner tomorrow. Anyway, amongst these products was a new maple syrup from Aldi. Priced at €3.99 for 250mls, it’s slightly cheaper than Tesco’s maple syrup [...]
The pancakes arrived by courier, as precious and delicate as a flower being delivered to a dying princess. Superquinn had sent me a truckload of their fresh pancakes for review. I think it may have been a full truckload. I couldn’t eat them all so I skived off work and shared them with my friend [...]
“Maybe they’re going to poison you,” a friend helpfully suggested when I wondered why Tesco had asked me to lunch. Sure we never have a good word to say about Tesco (see here, here, here…) The event, held at lunchtime in the Burlington Hotel, was to sample some of Tesco’s own-brand Irish products. The supermarket [...]
