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Free Stuff Alert: Luxury Lemon Cake at Lidl

There's something a little alliterative about that sentence, but yes, you really can have a luxury lemon cake at Lidl, for *free* next week. In celebration of reaching a fairly whopping 250,000 fans on Facebook, Lidl are giving away what is probably going to be lorryloads of cake next weekend. All you...

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Lidl Special Offers until 19th June

Right so, from today until Wednesday, top Lidl offerings include 16 Denny Saussies for €2, 4 Lamb Loin Chops for €4, and yummy Smoked Black Forest Black Ham for €1.89 (this stuff is amazing in dishes involving chipotle chillies, the smokiness of the chilli and ham go...

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Lidl Special Offers – Until Sunday 29th May

Starting with today’s offers (available until Sunday), there are some random, but good specials including 99c raspberries (very cheap, and good for making your own coulis or ice cream), €2 Gouda or Edamer slices, although these are pretty much the price for them in all supermarkets, €1 for four probiotic...

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Lidl Special Offers – Until Saturday 14th May

Some hot-to-trot offers in Lidl this week, starting today with uber-super-duper food, blueberries, at just 99c per punnet. These anti-oxidant packed little beggars normally retail at about €3.50 per punnet, so this is extremely good value, get in there if you like 'em sprinkled in your yoghurt or porridge! ...

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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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Lidl Special Offers Until 10th April

Lidl’s up next, and their Saturday offers are nothing to be sniffed at. As usual there’s one solid good value deal and three other slightly random products, which I’m sure, will be very attractive to some people, but not everybody.  Take for example this Saturday’s specials – Coca Cola...

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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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Lidl Special Offers – until Sunday 27th

First up, Lidl offers expiring tomorrow (Wednesday) include €2 rindless back bacon rashers, although to be fair, the photo appears to show a significant enough rind for me to question the title somewhat.  Also 59c cabbage and sausages, although I can imagine which will be more popular...

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Shopping Snapshots – March 14th 2011

I was a super-duper good girl this week. Not even €40 for 14 meals! This week has been one of my "more calories, less cost" notions, partly because I was beavering away at Irish-style recipes such as Steak & Guinness Pies and Whiskey Cake for the week that's in...

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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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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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