I come from a proud family of bargain hunters. My mother still can’t resist telling me exactly how much my birthday present cost and what was knocked off, even before I’ve unwrapped it.
My dad can often be found roaming around Asda at 10pm in search of yellow stickered whole chickens and crusty cheese bread they neither need nor have space for.
And my dear sisters, who are champions of eBay, run around car boot sales, flea markets and charity shops like wide-eyed crack addicts.
But as anyone who’s ever paid £3.29 for 12 slices of crumbling bread knows, you can’t beat the high of finding cut-price free-from food.
And although you might chance upon deals in supermarkets (I’ve just left my local Co-op with 14 half-price Genius chicken pies – and probably the moniker “mad pie lady”), the bargain stores are your prime hunting ground.
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And my special free-from cupboard at home is now rammed with microwave Tiger Tiger gluten-free chilli noodles that taste like hot, claggy mush. But they were, like, only a POUND (Pound Shop).
Some days, you’ll leave with a solitary pack of 49p salted rice cakes. Other times, you will emerge from the automatic doors into the sunshine looking like the victor on Dale’s Supermarket Sweep (if they’d had free-from aisles on that show, that would be where you’d pile your trolley high to crank up the bill – no question).
You need a sharp eye and your wits about you to find these offers in bargain shops. It’s worse than trying to track down your size bra and knickers in TK Maxx. In Aldi and Lidl, in particular, you’ll find bags of gluten-free crisps sitting happily next to steam mops and children’s socks. We’re a long way off free-from aisles here.
But with deals this good, I might even be tempted to share some of my food with other people. Noodles, anyone?
By Kay Harrison – ex Pot Noodle junkie