Caitriona Redmond: Save money with my chicken tikka recipe and grocery deals of the week
Cooking chicken for sandwiches in your slow cooker is a fantastic and delicious way to save money.
Another week another set of energy price rises. It’s a feeling of déjà vu with a side order of rising anxiety. Anybody with the businesses that announced hikes in their energy costs over the past fortnight now has to find between an extra €5-€10 per week in their household budget. With food costs slowly rising our collective purses are naturally going to be tighter.
According to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) bread is Ireland’s most wasted food with over 41% of people reporting that they regularly threw away bread in the year 2020. When I buy a sliced pan I put it straight into the freezer, once it’s hard frozen a sharp tap on the side of the counter will loosen the slices individually and I simply take out what I want from the packaging and return the loaf to the freezer. If I’ve got a crusty loaf from the bakery I cut it into halves or quarters as soon as I get home before wrapping the portions and putting ¾ or half into the freezer for later on in the week. Stale heels or ends of loaves get blitzed into breadcrumbs which I keep in a bag in the freezer too.
