Does anybody pay full price for Easter eggs any more? Almost every supermarket seems to have them on special these days; as I noted last year, if you buy them at full price, you’re officially a chump. I’m not a massive fan of Easter egg chocolate. Firstly, the mass-produced Cadbury/ Nestle/ Mars eggs are kind [...]

Apologies for the tumbleweed blowing across this site the past few weeks; we’ve been very busy with silly work and such nonsense. Never in the history of mankind has anyone ever deserved a Bank Holiday weekend as much as I do. If you’re planning on eating large amounts of chocolate – which I, for once, [...]

I’ve always thought that non-chocolate biscuits are the lowest form of confectionary, but they seem to get rolled out at Christmas time. It’s tins of Quality Street, Roses, After Eight, Choc Mallows, and copious amount of jellies all the way in my house. In today’s Irish Times Pricewatch, Conor Pope reviews four tins of biscuits, [...]

The Temple Bar Chocolate Festival takes place this weekend, running from today until Sunday.  The program has a mix of free and paid events, and there are also some special offers on chocolate-themed menus in restaurants around the Temple Bar area. Some (free!) items of interest from the programme: Children’s Baking Workshop with Divine Fairtrade [...]

This is a warming little recipe to serve up to your kids and kidults alike on Halloween evening after you’ve been out on a hard night’s trick-or-treating. Although I know all our cheapeats readers are extremely on the ball, I am nevertheless obliged to point out the following: Kid version – less spice, no alcohol. [...]