Category: Good Value
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The steady march of own brands
In today’s Irish Times Pricewatch section, Conor Pope looks at the mass switch to own brand labels: Despite food price inflation, shoppers are managing their shopping budgets by trading down to private labels, shopping around, shopping to a budget and planning in advance. Four out of five shoppers now believe it is imperative that they…
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Product reviews: Smoothies, steak, booze and more at Aldi
Cheap, reliable, delicious, good value food? Aldi and Lidl are hard to beat. Aldi now commands a bigger share of the Irish grocery market than Lidl or Superquinn, and is growing rapidly in Ireland. Although Lidl have many delicious items – their Greek yoghurt is spellbinding – it’s Aldi that are winning the plaudits. In…
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Review: Breakfast in Cafe Sofia, Wexford Street, Dublin 2
Saturday afternoon. Courtesy of my demon friend Simon, I was very hungover. I’d also had around 10,000 miles between me and an Irish breakfast for four months. I wanted a real greasy spoon operation – no fancy herbed sausages or pestos or relishes on sourdough or the like. No. I wanted the type of breakfast…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Paratha Recipe
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Parathas are really delicious little flat breads, which are plain or stuffed with potatoes, herbs, spices, paneer, mint, etc. Paratha Recipe Ingredients 2 cups wholewheat flour Water Pinch salt 1 cup veg/sunflower oil (2 tbsps to knead dough and the rest to fry the parathas) Stuffing…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Part 2
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Earlier this week, I took you on the first leg of my spin around Eurasia Supermarket in Fonthill. My Indian friend, Radha, a food scientist with two kids, is showing me what she puts in her trolley. This week we’re diving into the freezer dept first.…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Vegetable Biryani & Chana Masala
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Radha’s Vegetable Biryani Ingredients Garlic and ginger paste Cassia bark Cardamons Cloves Javantry (flowers) Cumin seeds Kala jeera Bay leaves Black cumin seeds Cashews Green chillies Carrots, green beans, baby corns, etc (the packaged selection of baby veg in supermarkets is a quick option) Sliced onions.…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Part 1
Our writer Julie asked an Indian friend to show her around Eurasia, an Asian mega-mart in Liffey Valley and give her some expert tips. She got such a wealth of information that we”re giving this whole week over to Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour. Follow the blog all week for some great tips and recipes. jean…
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Dinners under €10 reviewed: The Pygmalion Restaurant
Today, we launch a new category on Cheapeats: dinners under €10. In particular, we’re talking about proper, sit-down meals, so we’re leaving out fast food options. We’re excluding lunches: it’s easy to find a lunch under €10. Also out of consideration are early birds, one-off special offers and meals bought using coupon sites such as…
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The Mongolian BBQ: €5 lunch
Our regular commenter Laine sends in this recommendation for the Mongolian BBQ in Temple Bar: I used to ignore this place until my cousin told me about it. She’s a student, and they know all the best deals. For lunch time they charge a measly €5 – you can’t even get a pretentious panini for…
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Downstairs in Fallon and Byrne
I’ll keep this one brief. If you’re shopping in Dublin and need a good value lunch or dinner pitstop, check out Fallon and Byrne‘s food options. The pre-theatre deal is off until January, to be replaced by a much more expensive “Christmas menu”- it’s €38 instead of €28.81, plus a €5 supplement for the steak.…