We’ve found the cheapest supermarket basket of Easter ingredients that could make your family meal cost less than £10

LOOKING forward to a traditional Easter roast . . . but watching the pennies?

You can get a leg of lamb with all the trimmings for less than £10 if you shop right.

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As the cost-of-living crisis eats into budgets, finding the best deals on food is vital. 

To save you time, Sarah Arnold totted up the price of eight Sunday lunch Easter essentials – including lamb, veg, gravy and mint sauce – to see which supermarkets would give you change from a tenner.

Morrisons

• Whole lamb leg roast and half leg roast, £6.49/kg
• White potatoes, 2.5kg, 99p
• Carrots, 1kg, 19p
• Mint sauce, 180g, 49p
• Market Street medium cauliflower, 79p
• Savoy cabbage, 45p
• Fresh parsnips, 500g, 19p
• Savers gravy granules, 200g, 30p 

TOTAL: £9.89

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Asda

• Butcher’s Selection lamb leg, £6.50/kg
• Farm Stores white potatoes, 2.5kg, 91p
• Grower’s Selection fresh carrots, 1kg, 43p
• Mint sauce, 280g, 55p,
• Grower’s Selection cauliflower, 82p
• Grower’s Selection Savoy cabbage, 65p
• Farm Stores parsnips, 500g, 19p
• Gravy granules for meat, 200g, 70p

TOTAL: £10.75

Sainsbury’s

• Lamb whole leg, £8.70/kg
• White potatoes, 2.5kg, 29p
• Imperfectly Tasty carrots, 1kg, 30p
• Mint sauce, 250ml, 75p 
• Imperfectly Tasty cauliflower, 75p
• Savoy cabbage, 43p
• British parsnips, 500g, 19p
• Gravy granules for meat, 170g, 75p

TOTAL: £12.16

Aldi

• Ashfields British whole leg of lamb, £5.95/kg
• Nature’s Pick potatoes, 2kg, 23p
• Nature’s Pick carrots, 1kg, 19p
• Bramwells mint sauce, 180g, 45p
• Nature’s Pick cauliflower, 59p
• British Savoy cabbage, 45p
• Nature’s Pick parsnips, 500g, 19p
• Quixo for meat gravy granules, 300g, 79p

TOTAL: £8.84

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Iceland

• Whole leg of lamb, £11.11/kg
• British white potatoes, 2.5kg, £1.75
• Carrots, 880g, 79p
• Colman’s mint sauce, 165g, £1
• British large cauliflower, £1.79
• British Savoy cabbage, 79p
• Aunt Bessie’s honey glazed parsnips, 750g, £1.75
• Bisto gravy granules, 190g, £1.85

TOTAL: £20.83

Tesco

• Acre Lane lamb leg joint, £10/kg
• All-Rounder potatoes, 2.5kg, 91p
• Perfectly Imperfect carrots, 1kg, 30p
• Mint sauce, 185g, 46p
• Cauliflower, 79p
• Savoy cabbage, 43p
• Parsnips, 500g, 42p
• Onion gravy granules, 200g, 70p 

TOTAL: £14.01

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