STEAMING bowls of hot vegetable soup and tasty casseroles are associated more with the winter months, but the continuing bad weather has sent consumers indoors in search of comfort foods.

IRISH shoppers are loading up their baskets with the kinds of comfort food they normally buy in winter — all because of the wet and miserable summer weather.

THE days of the massive turkey on the Christmas Day table are numbered as Irish families get smaller and broaden their tastes.

SHOPPERS were urged yesterday to do their bit to keep fisheries afloat by choosing their fish products carefully.