Can you eat healthy on the cheap? Really healthy, really good quality food? I think not. I’ve said as much in many interviews radio and press interviews: it’s cheaper to buy a frozen pizza than fresh meat; it’s cheaper to pick up a p…
Tesco has been fined €600 for charging more for goods at the tills than the price displayed at the shelves. But much like you or I would be oblivious to a one cent piece at the back of a drawer of odds and ends, Tesco won’t miss this €600. I…
This is spooky. A journalist from The Guardian newspaper reports that he was accosted by Tesco staff last week for the “crime” of writing down prices on a notepad. The manager told him that Tesco policy forbids people writing down prices. P…
I get a lot of press releases. Here’s one I thought deserved some attention. SuperValu recently announced a grand plan to reduce the cost of an average weekly shopping basket from €132 per week to €102. Price cuts and promotions form the bac…
You’ll all have heard the news by now about Superquinn being bought out by the Musgrave group, owners of Super Valu and Centra. On the positive side, it’s very good to hear that they have pledged to keep all 2,800 Superquinn employees in jo…
Grocery prices have risen in the past year, according to a report by Conor Pope in today’s Irish Times. Pope points to a report by the National Consumer Agency which shows that prices have risen by five per cent since July 2010, significantly hig…
Exciting news… Crackbird are teasing us all with this picture on their Twitter account. Rumour has it that they’re reopening tonight on South William Street. Fingers crossed… Thanks to Rebecca for the tip off. Related posts:‘Cra…
A Dublin diner has been charged with theft and public order offences after refusing to pay for a meal, writes Andrew Phelan in today’s Evening Herald. The man was eating at Harry’s on the Green on South King Street. It’s another ans…
The fast food industry is a major employer of minimum wage workers, and it is also one of the few industries that sees increased profits during a recession. Supermacs saw their pretax profit increase by 18% last year, yet they are still cutting their…
The people behind Jo’Burger in Rathmines have come up with a clever idea for a pop-up restaurant in Dublin city centre. They’ll be serving chicken dishes for 12 weeks at Crackbird, 19 Crane Lane in Temple Bar. The chicken is being billed …
Here’s one. The gourmet burger chain Jo’Burger has had to stop offering rare and medium-rare burgers to its customers after the HSE warned them off. Gourmet Burger Company in Ranelagh received a similar warning, and their letter to th…
I’ve always been a big fan of ethnic food shops, and we’ve reviewed many of them here. The Asia Market on Drury Street is perhaps the best known, and there’s many more dotted around Dublin and in some of Ireland’s towns and citi…
Two of Dublin’s most well-established restaurants closed over the Christmas period. The Mermaid Cafe and Gruel are sister restaurants on Dame St, and according to the Irish Times, staff are still waiting to hear if they will reopen. Gruel wil…
A new scientific study has found that organic food is no better for your health than vegetables grown with chemicals, reports today’s Irish Times. The study suggests that traditionally grown vegetables, which are significantly cheaper, have virtu…
M&S is to start selling branded products* in its Irish stores. Up to 450 brands, including Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, Barry’s, and Tayto will be phased into all 20 M&S stores by the middle of September.
It’s a big leap for the reta…
More new specials in my new, officially favourite regular* supermarket. The current set includes:
Irish spring leg of lamb – half price – now €6.99 per kg
Selection of half price Superquinn cakes
Superquinn chilled juice range – any 2 for €3
The …
Very little surprises in the latest National Consumer Agency price survey. Unsurprisingly and most significantly, there’s a negligible price difference between the big four supermarkets.
The cost of groceries has fallen by 14 per cent since Janu…
For the past few years, the Republic’s retailers have watched in despair as their fickle customers fled across the border in search of cheaper prices and better deals. But according to Conor Pope in today’s Pricewatch, the days of cross-bor…
Some of you may have noticed a post in the Irish Times’ Pricewatch blog a few weeks back where Conor Pope asked if readers’ favourite brands had started disappearing from their local Tesco; some of you may even have left your feedback. Th…
It was this time last year that Cheapeats covered a price comparison survey by The National Consumer Agency of Ireland that showed a drop in food prices in Ireland in the first half of 2009.
Well, it would seem that dream is over and prices are creepin…
Time magazine had a very interesting and revealing piece on the world’s worst fast food – most of which was in the States. The meals included a particularily revolting looking ‘Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries’ which was a whopp…
Pie fans will be pleased to hear that the excellent UK chain Pieminister have set up a stall in the Point Village Market in Dublin’s Docklands, and will be selling their pies there every weekend throughout the summer.
Via On the Record and multip…
In today’s Pricewatch, Paul Cullen explores the topic of misleading food labels. It’s a really useful, comprehensive article for anyone who’s ever picked up a shopping basket, with information on everything from environmental claims t…
Note that it is international Grandmother’s Day on April 25th, and for the second year running Slow Food Ireland will be celebrating in earnest. How? By celebrating those precious skills that might otherwise be lost: think, baking cakes, sewing s…
Since we started working on CheapEats last year, we’ve tried to bring you details of bargains and special offers in supermarkets, along with news and features on local shops and smaller producers.
But, as Conor Pope points out in today’s Pr…
