A food guru has shared 10 tips that could cut your shopping bills in half – including always looking at the lowest placed items on a shelf, avoiding the bigger trolleys and investing more in the frozen food aisle. Personal finance expert Lynn Beattie – also known as Mrs Mummypenny – is recognised for her helpful advice on how families …

‘Plate piling’ has been voted the most common barbeque behaviour, according to research. A poll of 2,000 adults who enjoy a good grill has found 28 per cent admit to loading their dish with as much food as possible when attending the popular garden get together. Fear of an empty buffet, not being bothered to get up again for seconds …

Six in 10 adults cook meals on a loop – with spaghetti Bolognese, roast dinner and a curry topping the list. A poll of 2,000 adults found 53 per cent are ‘stuck in a rut’ when it comes to cooking at mealtimes – with pizza, sausage and mash, and chilli con carne also go-to dishes. Seven in 10 admitted they’d …

Comedian Jason Manford has lifted the lid on his early years growing up, recalling his parents’ struggles to heat their home and put food on the table. Family holidays and even school uniforms were an impossibility without help from charities. And before his big break in 2007 with a small role in sitcom ‘Ideal’, the aspiring comedian picked up odd …

Everyone loves a snack, but what kind of snacker are you? Are you a Super Snacker? Working through the cupboards each day on the hunt for goodies – snacking is your life. Or could you be a Resourceful Snack Snaffler? Picking through the kids’ lunchboxes after school, an uneaten fishfinger at tea-time or an ancient sweet found in a handbag …

Are you green-fingered or do you stay well away from house plants, seeds and gardens? Take this quiz to find out just how your growing skills fare. How excited do you get about a trip to the garden centre? Do you know how courgettes are grown? How confident would you feel about growing a plant from a seed? It comes …

Using heat-sensitive ink, the label on the mayonnaise jar reveals hidden messages and quirky graphics – once temperatures drop below five degrees. Any foods kept at higher temperatures are likely to go bad at a faster rate – and this includes shop-bought mayonnaise once opened. Unveiled to mark Food Waste Action Week 2023 (March 6th-12th), the new prototype ‘smart jar’ …

Brits admit they generate so much food waste – because their eyes are bigger than their bellies, ingredients go out of date and confusion over portion sizes. A study of 2,000 adults revealed making more than is required, a lack of time to accurately measure out ingredients and not planning ahead were among the top reasons for not knowing how …

With the finest cutlery, napkins, dinnerware and table service from a personal waitress, fanatics Greg Dwight, 38 and his partner Hannah Hoad, 34 from Essex were treated to a meal in luxurious fashion. To start, an ‘amuse bouche’ was served in the form of a barbecue snack mix before mains of a Roast Beef, West Country Cheddar and Truffle Mayo …

Snack-happy Brits have revealed the weird and wonderful ways they eat their crisps – including with cutlery, chopsticks, crushing them to powder, and creating a taste overload with a mix of different flavours. Research of 2,000 adults found eating them with something sweet, covering them with chilli sauce and dipping them into sauce while it’s in their mouth were other …