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National Fish and Chip Day – Halfprice!

It's back!! National Fish and Chip Day 2012 is happening across the country today, with half price 'one & one's' (not entirely sure what that is, but bet fish and chips are involved!) on offer in every ITICA member chippy. This year they're also offering generous prizes, including 2 trips...

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Aldi Special Offers until the 11th June

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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Lidl Special Offers

This week's Lidl special offers include enough sweets to turn a stone diabetic but we won't linger on those, they're cheap, chewy and retro. There. Done. Onto more important things. Like alcohol. Little bottles of alcohol to be precise.  Now the're not going to be winning any taste...

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Tesco Special Offers

Tesco special offers are out today. And it's meat week. Well no, not officially, but they’ve got some decent offers on all things meaty, fishy and er, chicken-y. Starting with their half price dinner, which is just half price spuds, wine and a roasting meat. Except this week it’s not...

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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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Superquinn Special Offers – Until 8th March

Superquinn deals are really actually worth a look lately. Last week it was €3.49 chicken, this week has similar great value offers, read on! I'll be posting the recipe for Housekeeper's Pot Roast now shortly - at the fresh meat counter at Superquinn they have Continental Beef Joint...

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Piri-Piri Cod Parcels

I’ve eaten enough calories this Sunday to warrant reigning it all the way back the whole week long. Hence fish parcels. These are great ways to cook an entire nutritious dinner in one little shiny silver packet. Or, baking paper if you’re more organised than my scatter-brained self. At...

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Skinny Seafood Pasta

If you like prawns, calamari, mussels, fish chunks and all the rest of the delights of the sea, this is one very cheap and very healthy dinner. It can be made in quite literally ten minutes, to be doled out into lunchboxes or kept in the fridge for supper. It...

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Baked Cajun Salmon

[caption id="attachment_133" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Yummy spicy goodness"][/caption] I bake this because I’m lazy, but Mum cooks an amazing veg-topped healthy version in the pan which is to be honest, must tastier.  This is a good dieting dish, but be careful, the Cajun spice’s first ingredient is salt, which is not...

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Cajun Spiced Steamed Salmon & Veg

This one is great for the waistline, but is also     very easy and (sometimes!) relatively cheap to make.  We both love salmon, but only really indulge when there are special offers on – Tesco or Superquinn often have 33% off their sides of...

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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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