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Centra’s new Table for Two for €6 range
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,...
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Product reviews: Smoothies, steak, booze and more at Aldi
Cheap, reliable, delicious, good value food? Aldi and Lidl are hard to beat. Aldi now commands a bigger share of the Irish grocery market than Lidl or Superquinn, and is growing rapidly in Ireland....
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Product review: Aruna sauces
Photo: www.aruna.ie Some of you may have seen Sarajit Chanda and his wife Sarah on Dragons’ Den earlier this year, a charming couple pitching, and winning investment for, their budding business, Aruna...
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Product Review/Love Letter: Lidl Greek Yogurt
This stuff. Oh boy oh boy it's good. I have our commenter Deb to thank for tipping me off to this amazing stuff. Nearly a year ago, I wrote a post about healthy eating and using substitutions for...
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Christmas at Aldi: Feed the family for under €30
Aldi's Luxury All Over Iced Christmas Cake: €11.49 each A few weeks ago, Aldi laid on a banquet for Irish Times consumer affairs editor Conor Pope: Thousands of people blow unconscionable sums in Marks...
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Tayto Chocolate: A Thing That Exists
The evil geniuses at Tayto recently pulled off a PR masterstroke while simultaneously going into bold new flavour combination territory, with their Tayto chocolate bar. This bar is milk chocolate with...
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Product Review: Donnelly’s Salads
Food writers are lucky enough to receive lots of samples in the post from time to time. These samples tend to consist primarily of fatty and sugary foods. Recently, we received a big giant box of many...
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Bring Back Wibbly Wobbly Wonders… and Tiger Tots
The Land of Lost Sweetness (Photo: Sue Jefferson) Where are Wibbly Wobbly Wonders? Easily my favourite childhood ice-pop, combining banana and strawberry ice-creams, lemon jelly, and chocolate on the...
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What are you eating this summer? Neon’s Chu Chee Curry
Here’s a quick recommendation from my favourite local takeaway, Neon on Camden Street. Photo: sxc.hu The Chu Chee curry. F**k yeah. Cheap? Meh, not particularly, takeaways are rarely cheap. But this...
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Summer of Flavour at M&S
M&S spiced lamb firebread I wandered into the void of deliciousness that is M&S last week to pick up a Father’s day voucher. It’s not the cheapest: it’s just never ever going to compete with...
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