Whilst shopping this morning I couldn't help but notice the amount of people filling up containers at the salad bar .

£2.69 for a salad that'll do 1 maybe 2 meals at the most. No thanks! Please don't be fooled into buying these. You can make flavoured cous cous, pasta and noodle salads for pennies (or better still use some leftovers). Grate your carrots, use whole lettuce not bags of prewashed. Hone up on your knife skills and you'll soon be slicing and dicing as good as on any salad bar and saving money to boot . Penny