23 h. ago Potatoes will stay fresh for a year if you add one kitchen ingredient to the skins

While potatoes remain near the top of our shopping lists, we face a race against time to keep them fresh and ready to eat, but an expert has claimed adding one everyday ingredient to their skins will make them last longer

Events

43 h. ago Shopping expert breaks down 'secret' supermarket codes to help fresh food last longer

You might have not known about this little-known trick

Economics

67 h. ago Savvy shopper shares the 'secret' meanings behind supermarket codes that reveal the freshest foods

UK-based content creator Grace Forell has revealed a little-known trick for deciphering supermarkets codes so you can find the freshest fruit and vegetables.

Society

3 d. ago Urgent food recall issued for Aldi, Lidl and Tesco supermarket products

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has issued a number of food recalls over the past week, with a range of fresh herbs, greens, ready-made pasta dishes, and more implicated

Politics

5 d. ago Voices: The best tips for finding supermarket bargains: readers share their Lidl and Aldi secrets

Readers share their top shopping tips and tricks, from hunting Lidl’s fresh food discounts to combining multiple stores for the best deals

Economics

9 d. ago Bread 'is fresh for longer' if you store it one way that's not in the freezer

How you store bread can make a surprising difference in its shelf life - but there is one type of bread that outperforms the rest when it comes to staying fresher longer

Politics

9 d. ago How to make perfect fresh tomato pasta – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect

With such a simple dish, and so many ways to make it, can one really distil the ultimate version of pasta al pomodoro crudo? Our resident perfectionist finds out “How many versions of fresh tomato sauce can there be?” Catherine, the generous winner of a charity auction to help me with the research for this column, asks when I tell her what recipe we’ll be making. On the contrary, I tell her, I’ve had my work cut out to narrow the selection here down to a mere seven, not least because the simpler the dish, the more argument there is over how it should be prepared, especially in a place as passionate about its food as Italy.Happily, I’ll have a lot of assistance, because Catherine has raised yet more money for Hospitality Rides (a fundraising initiative for two very worthy industry charities, Only a Pavement Away and the Licensed Trade Charity), by selling tickets to get other people to do my job for me, effectively. In an attempt to sweeten the deal, I tell my assembled minions (all ...

Politics

3 w. ago Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 93 reported killed by Israeli fire while waiting for food

Israeli forces open fire on hungry Palestinians near Gaza City in one of bloodiest incidents involving aid seekersPope Leo XIV has condemned the “barbarity” of the war in Gaza and the “indiscriminate use of force” as Gaza’s civil defence agency said at least 93 Palestinians had been killed queueing for food and Israel issued fresh evacuation orders for areas packed with displaced people.Gaza’s health ministry said scores were killed by Israeli fire while waiting for UN aid trucks entering through the northern Zikim crossing with Israel. It was one of the highest reported death tolls among repeated recent cases in which aid seekers have been killed by Israeli fire. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Bananas stay fresh and won't brown 'for months' if stored away from fruit bowl

There's a simple trick to stop them rotting and keep them fresh for up to three months

Politics