Category Archives: Highlights

Supermarket Easter Bargains 4 – Leg of Lamb

We all love a good roast, and at this time of the year it’s all about the lamb. A lovely fresh, tasty and light meat, it is unfortunately also bloody expensive, and so here’s our pick of the top offers in the supermarkets for lamb. These are just the...

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Supermarket Easter Bargains 3 – Wine, Beer & Hard Stuff

Good God, I ventured into Tesco, Dooradoyle, Limerick on Thursday night. That’s the evening before Good Friday, when alcohol can’t be sold. It was like a battlefield. You’d swear Irish people would never ever be able to get hold of a bottle of chardonnay for ever more! Anyway, if...

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Supermarket Easter Bargains 2 – Hot Cross Buns

I don’t get all the fuss really, to me they’re just fruit scones with sweet stuff drizzled in lines, but a) I don’t can’t really bake and b) I’m a cohabiting, mass-dodging, wine-swilling semi-heathen, so we should probably discount my opinion fairly sharpish.   In case you are partial to...

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Supermarket Easter Bargains 1 – Easter Eggs

This week Gastronomics.ie is bringing you the definitive guide to supermarket Easter offerings.  We’ll cover all the basics of your Easter ingredients alongside the usual supermarket specials. This is gonna be easy-peasy for me - I like lamb. I like hot cross buns. I like wine. And I especially...

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Supermarket Specials for Mother’s Day

Most of us are still reeling at figures released this week as part of the banking stress test.  The official line - I believe - is that our banks owe, oh, somewhere approaching bazillions. Which means of course that realistically we owe bazillions. Specifically, you and I, via our paychecks....

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Special Offer Highlights February 25th

If you do your weekly shop at the weekends, you might want to factor this week's highlights into your shopping list... Aldi’s clearing out the competition this week with their 79c offers; Tesco’s Kerr Pinks at €2.07 and Supervalu’s Parsnip & Carrot trays at €1 aren’t coming...

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Special Offers Highlights

Roll up roll up, read all about it....herewith my modest opinion on the supercalifragilistic and well, not quite so special, special offers. Valentines fever has well and truly gripped the grocery stores, although I'm not so sure about the paying customers - has anybody yet recovered from the shock of their...

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What is Gastronomics.ie all about?

Gastronomics.ie is a fully independent food and shopping blog, updated daily, bringing tips and hints on how to cook, eat and drink like a true recessionista. We are mother and daughter, catering for six people and two respectively, and in this blog we share our efforts to lower the grocery bills, while keeping the tummies satisfied! Have a look at the news section for some industry gossip, check out our recipes if you’re looking for inspiration, or have a look at our ‘weekly shop’ and ‘special offers’ menus to see how we’re saving the pennies this week. If you’ve got any tips or hints just drop us a line or leave a comment – we’d love to hear from you!

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