Ok so Bloom’s over, Taste is nearly over, but if you live in Limerick you have a couple of days left to enjoy Love Gourmet Week, a great initiative dreamt up by Limerick restaurateurs to allow diners to taste the best their establishments have to offer, at a fraction...
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Posted By: Gastrogirl, 26th May 2011, in
Lidl
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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A couple of weeks ago the OH and I had a long, busy Friday evening and when we eventually clocked off the ‘window for cooking’ had closed. I.e., I was knackered. We wandered around Newbridge looking for something that appealed, and eventually stopped outside an Italian chipper down a...
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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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This week the big offer from Tesco Ireland is that they’ll double all your €5 vouchers when spending them on certain products. Sounds fab right? Well, it is if you’re into the following; clothing, frozen, suncare, fresh cut flowers & plants, and baby & toddler. If not, definitely hang onto...
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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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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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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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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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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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