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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...
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Shopping Snapshots – February 26th 2011
Ok so I was a wee bit more frugal this week, despite the fact I got a notion to cook cassoulet of all things (My Mum’s fault, we’ve just come back from a short trip to the Aude region!), which is a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Supermarket Easter Bargains 2 – Hot Cross Buns
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,...
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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...
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Easter Shopping Round-Up
Are you sick to the back teeth of hearing / reading about eggcellent value, bargain eggstravaganzas and eggsquisite deals? Yup, me too, so to cut the BS, see below for a rapid-fire overview of the...
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Free Stuff Alert – New Knorr ‘Highly Versatile’ Range
Monday’s post brought a household tax demand, a TV licence reminder and, curiously, an offer for a free hearing aid. At 28. But for once, this avalanche of Harp-marked envelopes was accompanied by...
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Top 5 Nuclear-War Foods….y’know, just in case, like….
I recently read a book called “The Things That Keep Us Here”. As this isn’t a book-reviewing blog (yet!), I’ll keep it simple. Bird Flu hits. Birds die. Bird Flu mutates. People die. The end....
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