'I made Tesco's budget roast for less than £1 a head and there's just one thing I'd change'

With food prices shooting up along with the rest of our bills, families are understandably wanting to cut back where they can. Homemade meals are often a fair bit cheaper than ready meals, especially when you can cook in bulk, and having a Sunday dinner doesn't have to break the bank.

In fact Tesco has been plugging its own meal plans to show just how cheap shoppers can make them on a budget. The supermarket shared its ingredients for spaghetti bolognaise, working out at £3.37 for four, and its sausage and mash at £2.76 for four.

But the one that's impressed shoppers the most is the roast dinner - at £4.60 for four. I decided to give this one a go to see what the family thought.

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The shopping list includes a whole chicken, a bag of carrots, a bag of parsnips, some frozen roast potatoes and a tub of gravy. All were among Tesco's Aldi Price Match products, including its budget Willow Farm whole chicken at £2.89 and Stockwell & Co gravy, at 30p for a 200g tub.

There's no debating it's cheap as chips for a roast dinner and Tesco is certainly playing it safe with its 'feeds four' claim. We easily got five dinners from it and that was with some carrots - and obviously most of the gravy - leftover.

Sot. at 92p a head, how does it taste? Well, pretty good actually. We've had the chicken before, so it was no surprise to find out that it tastes pretty much like any other chicken really.

I always cook it in the slow cooker anyway so it's always tender with the meat easily falling off the bones. The carrots and parsnips were tasty too, especially roasted for a change rather than our usual boiled.

As for the gravy, I was pleasantly surprised.