Take-home grocery sales have risen by 7.4%, a marked slowdown, as UK supermarkets start to annualise sales against the extraordinary spending in 2020.

As we approach a full year since the first national lockdown in Ireland, months of restaurant and bar closures, working from home and home schooling have added up.

Restrictions on the hospitality sector mean that we’ve eaten an extra seven billion meals at home since spring 2020.