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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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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My new fixation of late is Riesling, as the warm sunny evenings we’re miraculously enjoying cry out for a glass of something crisp and dry. So, emboldened by the surprisingly enjoyable bottle of
Riesling for just €5.49 in Lidl I rashly decided that all wine from the...
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I caught a bare five minutes of conversation on the radio the other morning, but what an interesting five minutes! I believe I heard Conor Pope making the point that many of the items included in the Tesco ‘price cut’ were cut alright, but only after going up first. ...
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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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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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My weekly shop yesterday involved a bit of a wild card – Mother in Law coming to dinner. This meant that my usual hasty lazy thrown-together stir fry of a Sunday evening would have to be replaced by a proper meal. Involving effort. No problem, I thought, tearing through...
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Right, Tesco was out of the traps early on the 17
th February, offering, among other options, ‘half price dinner’; ham fillet, potatoes, veg selection and New Zealand Sauv Blanc, for €16.29. Not bad, given that it’d feed at least four, but totally and utterly yawn-worthy. Zzzz.....
Now, onto more exciting...
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Tesco have the usual dizzying array of
special offers, interestingly only on offer up until Sunday - if you're planning on nipping in to buy some half-price champagne (Taittinger, €49.99 down to €24.99) on Monday, don't bet on getting them at that price. Other Valentines specials include...
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