A waste-conscious cook is rustling up delicious inflation-busting meals by seeking out yellow sticker deals so she can still make gourmet dishes for less than £1 per head and cheat “apocalyptic” food prices. Keen to share her bargain-bagging tips as inflation has risen by nine per cent – the highest climb in 40 years – therapist Clare Rice, 33, says she and her partner Shaun Guillan, 34, who works in customer support, eat like kings on a tiny budget.
By finding out when food is reduced by the supermarkets and shopping at night when prices are slashed, she will spend as little as £15 on the ingredients needed to produce 21 meals. including showstoppers like duck a l’orange or a full roast dinner.
Keen to recruit more converts to her frugal food programme, Clare, of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, hopes that, by taking her lead, more families will find ways to enjoy delicious dinners without busting their budgets, saying: “Cooking on a shoestring can be difficult, but it can be done.
