 and the smaller, £5 option (R) Nothing tops a plate piled high with roasted meats, crispy potatoes, buttery vegetables, and gravy. But cooking a Sunday roast can sometimes feel like more effort than it is worth, and with living costs on the rise, experts have warned you might soon have to fork out £5 on energy for every roast you cook. Keen to find a budget-friendly alternative that could also cut back the time spent on washing up, Manchester Evening News' Jenna Campbell set out on a quest to find "a solution that offered the best of both worlds." And she has brilliant news for any Stockport locals, as she delivered high praise after trying a £5 takeaway roast, ordered through delivery app, Stockport Eats. Frenchie's Kitchen & Grill's build-you-own roast Having spotted a roast option available from Frenchie's Kitchen & Grill, which she describes as "a small but mighty operation cooking up breakfasts, butties and burgers", Jenna conducted a taste test. Here's how she got on, in her own words. She said: "My interest was piqued when I saw that on Sundays they let you assemble your own roast - a gamechanger. The build-your-own option is bound to appeal to fussy eaters, who may want to forgo some of the less desirable roast accompaniments, but it also allows you to keep costs down. "There's 26 items on the Frenchie's Build-a-Roast tab, with prices for meat, vegetables and gravy each individually priced at 70p a serving. All the bases are covered from chicken breast and numerous potato options to cauliflower cheese and Yorkshire puddings. "Additions like apple sauce, English mustard, horseradish and mint sauce are available for 35p each. Now, if you're wanting it delivered, it's a minimum order of £12, but you can easily get two or three roasts for that as you'r){kind=link}
With the cost of living on the up, one writer decided to order a homemade roast dinner to her door, in the hopes the £5 offering would live up to her usual expectations
Nothing tops a plate piled high with roasted meats, crispy potatoes, buttery vegetables, and gravy. But cooking a Sunday roast can sometimes feel like more effort than it is worth, and with living costs on the rise, experts have warned you might soon have to fork out £5 on energy for every roast you cook.
Keen to find a budget-friendly alternative that could also cut back the time spent on washing up, Manchester Evening News’ Jenna Campbell set out on a quest to find “a solution that offered the best of both worlds.” And she has brilliant news for any Stockport locals, as she delivered high praise after trying a £5 takeaway roast, ordered through delivery app, Stockport Eats.
Having spotted a roast option available from Frenchie’s Kitchen & Grill, which she describes as “a small but mighty operation cooking up breakfasts, butties and burgers”, Jenna conducted a taste test. Here’s how she got on, in her own words.
She said: “My interest was piqued when I saw that on Sundays they let you assemble your own roast – a gamechanger. The build-your-own option is bound to appeal to fussy eaters, who may want to forgo some of the less desirable roast accompaniments, but it also allows you to keep costs down.