Caitriona Redmond: How to make a family dinner with a bag of potatoes and a tray of eggs

"Christmas dinner on the barbecue might just have to become a new tradition."
There’s a stressful time of the month when the gap between what you’ve got in the bank account and what you need is getting wider and wider. That’s the point at which you realise that a full weekly shop has zero hope of actually happening and yet you’ve still got to feed your family and make the books balance.
This is a feeling that I’m very familiar with and one that many more families than ever before are going to experience in the months ahead.