I just yelled at a family member for getting the Christmas food in Tesco. I practically accused her of a crime against Christmas. It’s because (a) Christmas organisation is somewhat stressful as well as fun, leading to my outburst of grumbling and (b) Aldi and Lidl are cheaper, better, and less evil. I tend to [...]

If you haven’t yet done your Christmas shopping, be sure to check out the supermarket offers first. Click here to see offers at Tesco, including half-price brie, brussel sprouts, and smoked salmon. Click here to see SuperValu deals, including half-price hams and melons and sprouts reduced by 75%. Click here to see deals at Dunnes. [...]

We’ve been fortunate this Christmas, with samples of festive treats coming from Superquinn and now Marks & Spencer. They sent us a bag with some party food, sweet Christmas treats and a festive soup. Mini Chicken Kievs (€6.79) – these little breaded kievs can be oven baked. I’ve been ranting on here recently about how [...]

Superquinn recently sent us a nifty cooler bag with a selection of festive foods to try out and write about here.  They chose a few items from their traditional Christmas range – Christmas pudding, Christmas cake and cranberry sauce; and some party foods – cocktail sausages, pate and ribs.  The bag also contained a bottle [...]

So incredibly simple, wonderfully cheap, enormously comforting, and bursting with curative powers, this soup is the perfect antidote to both the snowy weather and any lurking colds or flus. No sweating, no reducing -  this is a Chinese style soup so just cover it with water and boil away. It will take about three minutes [...]

The first thing you need to know about me is that I love jam.  In the zombie apocalypse to come, it will be my reluctance to leave any jam behind that will be my fatal undoing.  So when Aldi sent Cheapeats a box of their new Grandessa Specially Selected jams to review a few weeks [...]

Curds remind me of spiders and that little horror, Miss Muffet, violently attacking some poor cow and gluttonously gorging on her raw milk products. So a lemon curd yoghurt sounded particularly vile – as everyone knows, citrus and dairy, like navy and black, do not mix. Turns out I’m wrong on that one. Aldi’s lemon [...]

I’m such a sucker for M&S. Yes, if you go there for your weekly shop, you deserve to have your remaining cents pecked from your pockets by an angry flock of knife-wielding geese – unless, of course, you’re one of Ireland’s three remaining wealthy people. But if, like me, you go there for the occasional [...]

Some current deals at Aldi include: 16 piece wrench set – €9.99 Maple syrup – €3.99 Round rich fruit cake – €4.99 Click here for details. The Super6 – a selection of fruit and veg for89c – is still great value. Check it out here. There’s loads of recent additions to the Aldi range – [...]

I’ll start by saying that I very rarely, if ever, opt for Tesco Value or St. Bernard products. I’ve suppressed the gag reflex when served a shiny roast St. Bernard chicken; shivered as I imagine its horrific life in a tight, dirty place with the walls closing in; and clamped my facial muscles as I [...]