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Tesco Special Offers Until the 22nd May

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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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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Tesco-selected 2009 Gewurztraminer

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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Bold Tesco, Tut Tut

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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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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Shopping Snapshots – 7th March 2011

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

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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Shopping Snapshots – February 20th 2011

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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Tesco Special Offers from the 17th February

Right, Tesco was out of the traps early on the 17th 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 Special Offers: Until 13th Feb

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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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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