First it was houmous, then falafel and now chickpeas have become the latest pulse food craze as Brits look to find cheap but nutritious ways to bulk out their meals. In the last year Tesco has seen demand for tinned chickpeas soar by an unprecedented 15 per cent as the cost of living crisis focuses …
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Tesco makes biggest ever investment in hourly pay, taking the rate to over £11 an hour Tesco has reached an agreement with USDAW that will significantly increase the hourly pay rate for colleagues in stores by 72p, from £10.30 to £11.02. This represents the third pay increase for these colleagues in the last 10 months and …
Despite a year which has seen the UK in the grip of the cost-of-living crisis, Tesco shoppers have been their most generous ever in support of food banks and local charities, the supermarket has revealed. Tesco customers donated more than 2.4 million meals during the Tesco Food Collection at the beginning of December. That brings …
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Tesco calls for a Festive Use Up Day to make the most of leftovers and avoid ‘fridge grazing’ This Christmas, Tesco is encouraging customers to squeeze all the value possible from their festive food, and put their leftovers to good use. With more than half (54%) of people who celebrate Christmas doing another big food …
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Agriculture boffins believe they have finally found a way to get young people to like Brussels sprouts – and their solution is having an immediate result. Agro-scientists at R & K Drysdale, one of the UK’s largest brassica growers based in Cockburnspath, Scotland, say that investment in an ultra hi-tec grading machine, nicknamed the ‘sproutatron’, …
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