Our food waste columnist on making friends with your freezer
I spent the night before my mum’s birthday hanging around the bakery aisle of a supermarket waiting for the final reductions to be brought out. When I’d entered the store, I’d seen that there was a large birthday cake reduced from £10 to £4.14 and two smaller ones which had come down from £6 to £4. All three were on their best before dates and one of the store assistants told me that they would be reduced further in around 20 minutes – I was not leaving that store until I had a birthday cake for my old dear.