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Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards
Irish Quality Food & Drink Awards Shortlist 2016 BAGGED SNACKS - SAVOURY • • •
Aldi Brasserie Thai Sweet Chilli Crisps / Golden Wonder Spar Select Sea Salt & Cider Vinegar Crisps / Golden Wonder Tesco Sea Salt & Black Pepper Cashew Nuts / Intersnack
BAGGED SNACKS - SWEET • • •
Dunnes Stores Cacao Mix / Forest Feast Tesco Everyday Value Midget Gems / Tangerine Confectionery Tesco Sugar Free Butter Mints / Tangerine Confectionery
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Dunnes Stores Simply Better Irish Cracked Black Pepper Crackers / Sheridan's Cheesemongers Dunnes Stores Simply Better Irish Wholemeal Crackers / Sheridan's Cheesemongers Tesco Salt and Pepper Cracker / Fairway GB
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Dunnes Stores Simply Better All Butter Oat & Cranberry Cookies / Regale Biscuit Company Dunnes Stores Simply Better Handmade Irish All Butter Shortbread / Regale Biscuits SuperValu Signature Tastes All Butter Stem Ginger Cookies / Walkers Shortbread Tesco Finest Spicy Dark Chocolate Ginger Cookies / Northumbrian Fine Foods Tesco Finest White Chocolate Cranberry & Pistachio Cookie
BREAD - MORNING GOODS • • • • •
Dunnes Stores Brittany Croissant / Deli France Lidl Connell Bakery Mini Pancakes / Hovis Raspberry Crown - Aryzta Food Solutions SuperValu & Centra Hand Made Fruit Scone / O Keeffes Artisan Baker Tesco Berry Scone / Aryzta
BREAD - SPECIALITY BREADS • •
Homely Bread - The Breadski Brothers Lidl Fresh Bakery Low GI Multiseed Cob / Mannings Bakery
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Aldi Specially Selected Rustic Wheaten with Fruit & Seeds / Stapleton Bakeries Roscrea Irish Brown Soda Bread Mannings Bakery
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CAKES - LARGE CAKES • • • •
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Dunnes Stores Cake Shop Carrot Cake / Food Utopia Dunnes Stores Chocolate Celebration Cake / Food Utopia Dunnes Stores Giant Rose Cake / Food Utopia Dunnes Stores Simply Better Handmade All Butter Lemon & Irish Blackcurrant Layer Cake / Sam's Cookies Tesco Finest Apple Tart / Mannings Bakery
CAKES - SMALL CAKES • •
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Aldi Mini Bites - Caramel Square / Ina's Kitchen Desserts Dunnes Stores Simply Better Handmade Belgian Chocolate Salted Caramel Shortbread Slices / Sam's Cookies Lidl Apple and Blackberry Trellis / Golden Bake Portuguese Tart (Pastel de Nata) - Mannings Bakery
CEREALS • • • • • •
Berry Bircher Muesli Freshways Food Co. Date & Banana Toasted Muesli / Maria Lucia Bakes Dunnes Stores Simply Better Irish Made Fruit & Nut Muesli / Kelkin - Valeo Foods SuperValu Fruit Muesli / Bokomo Foods Tesco Finest 7 Nut Granola / Bokomo Foods Tesco Fruit and Fibre Cereal / Cereal Partners
CEREALS - PORRIDGE • •
Lidl Deluxe Organic Wafer Oats / Whites Speedicook Spar Select Gluten Free Porridge / Grandma Henvey
CHEESE - HARD • • • •
Aldi Specially Selected Vintage Cheddar / Carbery Lidl Rathdaragh Irish Extra Mature Cheddar / Dale Farm SuperValu Comte / Traditional Cheese Company SuperValu Signature Taste Vintage White Cheddar / BandonVale Cheese
CHEESE - SOFT • • • • •
Dunnes Stores Simply Better Italian Mozzarella Di Bufala Campana / Traditional Cheese Dunnes Stores Tipperary Brie / Traditional Cheese Lidl Deluxe Brie de Meaux / Bradburys SuperValu Signature Tastes Cooleney Camembert / Traditional Cheese Company Tesco Finest Brie de Meaux
AOP / Castelli UK Tesco Finest Chaource / Fromagerie Lincet
CHRISTMAS Q - CAKES •
CHEESE - SPECIALITY • • • •
Dunnes Stores Simply Better Epoisses / Traditional Cheese Lidl Deluxe Tipperary Blue / Cashel Blue Tesco Finest Bleu D'Auvergne / ULN UK Tesco Milleens Farmhouse Cheese / Horgan's Delicatessen Supplies
CHILDREN'S FOOD • •
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BREAD – WHEATEN AND SODA BREADS
SuperValu & Centra Sean Brown Soda Bread / Genesis
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Aldi Mamia Juniors Mini Raspberry Rice Cakes / National Organic Aldi Mamia Organic Mango, Apple & Banana (Stage 1) / The National Fruit & Beverage Company Chicken Lickin Casserole 7+ months - Pip and Pear Chilled Baby Food - Lamb Tagine 10+ Months - Pip and Pear Heavenly Crispy Veggie Sweet Beet and Shallot Waffles - Heavenly Tasty Organics SuperValu Fruit Pots / Freshcut Foods
CHOCOLATE AND CONFECTIONERY •
Aldi Handmade Chocolate Bar - Dark Chocolate Valencia Orange / Aine's Chocolates • Aldi Roisins Praline Pouch / Aine's Chocolates • Dunnes Stores Simply Better Irish Handmade Wild Raspberry Belgian White Chocolate Bar / Aine's Chocolates • Lidl Cream Liqueur Truffles / Lir Chocolates • Lidl Irish Chocolate Selection / Lir Chocolates • Tesco Finest 71% Madagascar Dark Chocolate Bar / Chocolat Frey AG • Tesco Finest Swiss Chocolate Orange and Almonds Bar / Chocolat Frey AG • The Chocolate Box - Butlers Chocolates
CHRISTMAS Q - BAKERY & DESSERTS • • •
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Aldi Exquisite Mince Pies / Genesis Bakery Dunnes Stores Simply Better Handmade Raspberry Sherry Trifle / Prestige Foods Dunnes Stores Simply Better Hidden Centre Clementine & Cranberry Christmas Pudding / Seery's Heatherfield Tesco Finest Mulled Wine Christmas Pudding / Seerys
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Dunnes Stores Simply Better Hand Decorated Irish All Butter Christmas Cake / Sam's Cookies Dunnes Stores Simply Better Irish Handmade Plaited Stollen / La Boulangerie Des Gourmets Lidl Mince and Brandy Trellis / Golden Bake
CHRISTMAS Q - CHILLED SAVOURY •
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Aldi Specially Selected Luxury Irish Cheeseboard / Horgan’s Delicatessen Supplies Dunnes Stores Irish Cheddar with Porter / Traditional Cheese Dunnes Stores Simply Better Handmade Irish Brie, Rocket & Cranberry Quiche / Zanna Cookhouse Dunnes Stores Simply Better Irish Cheese Board Selection / Traditional Cheese Lidl Deluxe Cheeseboard / Horgan’s Delicatessen Supplies
CHRISTMAS Q - CHILLED SWEET • •
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Dunnes Stores Simply Better Farmhouse Irish Whiskey Cream / Killowen Farm Dunnes Stores Simply Better Seasonally Spiced Cranberry & Orange Yogurt / Killowen Farm Lidl Deluxe Brandy Cream / Aurivo
CHRISTMAS Q CONFECTIONERY • •
Dunnes Stores Simply Better Irish All Butter Rum & Raisin Fudge / Mella's Fudge Dunnes Stores Simply Better Irish Handmade Dark Chocolate & Ginger Florentines / Sam's Cookies