M&S started it all with their then-astonishing and still-impressive ‘Dine in for Two for €12.50′ deal.  Its popularity inspired a lot of other supermarkets to start offering meals for two or four, all for an attractive low price. Tesco have their Dinner for Two for €12 (it’s not as good as the M&S deal but [...]

Feeling lazy and hankering some comfort food, I nipped into Tesco and bought the Tesco Finest Lamb Moussaka. I naively thought it would marry well with the Potato Gratin from the normal Tesco range but I choose poorly. Both were tasty but sadly not together – I swear I could almost hear my arteries clog [...]

We’re moving house this week and there’s a million and one things to do. The kitchen is mostly packed away and even if I could cook I’m just too tired. So I nipped into Dunnes to get some quick and preferably healthy convenience food that I could just bung in the oven. I came across [...]

Wednesday was a looooooooong day: starting work at 9am, finishing at 9pm, and only a manky, overpriced roll from Spar in Clonskeagh for sustenance. By the time I left work, I was exhausted. To make matters worse, I knew that I was going to home to an empty fridge. No way was I cooking, so [...]

In today’s Irish Times, food critic Tom Doorley taste tests supermarket meal deals, and he’s pretty impressed with them all. This time last year, the idea of a decent quality three-course meal with a bottle of wine costing €10-€12.50 simply didn’t cross anyone’s mind. Back then, ready meals were an afterthought, not something you might [...]