Caitríona Redmond: Recipes to replace takeaways as budget fails to deliver

After all, when you have less disposable income one of the first things that gets the boot is the occasional meal out or drinks.

Caitríona Redmond's pork meatball noodle bowl and chicken burgers

After all the teasing of promised interventions and leaks from so many from Government departments that I checked my kitchen to see if my sieve was missing, Budget Day has been and gone.

The combination of a steady increase month on month of the cost of living so far in 2023, plus the stealthy cost of Shrinkflation, has left our wallets feeling emptier and our shopping baskets lighter.