The giddy optimism of this week has infected Aldi staff, and they’ve laid on the BBQ specials. Let’s hope they’re right, or the freezers are going to get rather full this weekend! First up are 25% extra seasoned chicken portions, including wings (pack of 14 by my count), thighs...
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Mmmm. There’s been a significant rate of inflation in the Aldi Super Six. Still great value, yes, but quite a jump up from the 49c offerings of two weeks’ ago. Now a tray of vine tomatoes, 2kg Golden Wonder potatoes, packet of courgettes, packet of carrots and parsnips and...
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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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is week has some excellent Super 6 fruit and veg choices for just 49c including 6 pack tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, two pack avocados, 1kg potatoes, 500g carrots / parsnips and bunches of scallions. If the good weather comes back this weekend you’re all set for salads and light...
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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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The weekly shop this week is actually fairly reasonable, due in no small part to the fact that as I slaved at the stove for hours on Monday, we’re having
galettes for lunch all bloody week. The Sunday roast (becoming quite a habit now!) was an absolutely...
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Aldi has the pancake thing sewn up, or so it would seem from their special offers this week; as mentioned in the previous post their icing sugar, pancake shaker thingie and ready-made pancakes lose out in the value stakes to Lidl, but some good bargains remain; €1.29 caster sugar,...
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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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More gardening / household stuff, this time in
Aldi. If you’re green-fingered and actually have the time to garden on top of working more hours for less money, dive right in, it appears to be your month at the discounters.
On the food front, however, the bargains are...
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The usual predictable array of Valentine-ish products are dominating the
Thursday specials at Aldi, these are some of the highlights;
Some seriously great value flowers; yes, I realise that by the time 10am on the 14th comes around won't look half as pretty, or indeed alive, as in...
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