Man who only ate reduced yellow sticker food from Tesco, M&S, Morrisons for a week now 'lives in regret'

A man who only ate reduced yellow sticker food items for a week says he now 'regrets it'.

Reporter Gregory Ford wanted to find out if he could cope on a Universal Credit budget.

In light of this, he decided to try eating nothing but yellow sticker food for an entire week.

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Gregory, who works for the HullLive team, said:

My first trip to the reduced section was on a Monday evening, this seems to be a good time for the yellow sticker hunters among us as the shelves were packed.

I was conscious of the short dates so I went in with the intention to only buy items I could use immediately and things that I could safely store.

At Tesco we hit upon a beef massaman ready meal, a cheese, leek and potato pie, a creamy chicken and chorizo pizza, a bolognese sauce, some chicken and bacon sandwich filling, turkey slices and cheese slices.

There was no reduced bread which was a shame and the vegetable selection was sparse.

Pizza for tea then, not too shabby but still more expensive than anything I would normally buy.

I'd got carried away, day one and I was already up to £13 spent.

The rest of the week was marred with similar misadventures, in the hunt for the yellow sticker you're very much at the mercy of a small selection of items.

You know what you don't see on the dry foods reduced section? Pasta. We've got a sauce and nothing to eat it with and we're already a few days into this experiment.

I had a shameful tea where I used the bolognese as a soup and ate it with a reduced bread roll I'd picked up on my way home.

Lunch was the dubious turkey on day four, smelt fine but my mind said I shouldn't be eating it.

Dinner was the pie with veg which had