Has Lockdown Changed What We Eat?

BY BBC Good Food

During the three months of lockdown, we changed the way we think about food. In supermarkets, we got used to queuing just to get inside and staff struggled to keep the shelves stocked.

The fear of shortages meant many of us started stockpiling. In March, grocery sales hit an all-time high, amounting to £10.8 billion. That’s higher than at Christmas, and we are still buying more groceries than before – in July, sales were 14.6 percent up on the same time last year.

Nutritionist Sarah Ann Macklin encourages us to keep up the habit of buying tinned beans, as they “add gut-loving fibre and plant-based protein, and one portion of beans counts towards your five a day”.

She suggests adding tinned and dried ingredients such as fruits, nuts and wholegrains to dishes, including salads, to bulk them out and add texture and flavour. “To reduce the cost you can swap fresh apricots for dried, fresh corn for tinned and fresh herbs for dried.”

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