With food prices on the rise, shopping for a family can be expensive. But you can still share a home-cooked meal cheaply, if you choose your ingredients carefully. Give one of these budget family meals a go — they all cost less than £5 to make.

The Saturday Night Feast: Hot Dogs with Potato Wedges, Sour Cream and Chive Dip and Coleslaw: Cost: £4.78.
The trick here is not to use very cheap sausages — you'll still keep the price down using good quality, butcher's-style sausages, because you're saving money by making your own potato wedges, coleslaw and dip. Serves 4.

The Saturday Night Feast © Jo Romero

Ingredients:
8 thick sausages
8 hot dog rolls
750g waxy white potatoes (like Maris Piper)
1 medium-sized onion, sliced
3 cabbage leaves, washed (use white, red or savoy cabbage)
2 large carrots
1 spring onion
2-3 tablespoons good-quality mayonnaise
150ml soured cream
Small bunch of chives

Method:
1.    Preheat your oven to 220°C. Cut the potatoes (don't peel them) into thin wedges and tip into a large roasting dish. Drizzle

20-27th August 2012 marks the UK's first Caribbean Food Week, launched to get us cooking up Caribbean treats at home. But if you don't know your plantain from your ackee, don't worry. Here's our guide to some popular Caribbean foods and where you can find them in the UK.

Ackee and Salted Fish Tartlets / Grace Jerk Chicken / Jamaican Curried Goat © Grace Foods

Jerk chicken
Jerk chicken is one of the Caribbean's most well-known dishes. To make it, cuts of chicken are marinated in herbs and spices including allspice, thyme and fiery scotch bonnet chillies, before being grilled on a high heat until cooked through. The high cooking heat can leave the skin blackened and crisp, but the meat underneath will be tender and juicy. In the UK, you can buy a number of ready-made Jerk seasonings and marinades, or blend your own from scratch.

Ackee
Ackee is an exotic fruit, originally from West Africa. It's a red, pear-shaped fruit that, when ripe, naturally opens out to reveal soft creamy yellow flesh and large, shiny black seeds. The flesh of the ackee has a buttery, nutty flavour and

Ever wondered how many people eat at fast food chains each day? And have you heard of the McPizza? We've compiled 10 little-known facts about some of our favourite fast food restaurants.

You can get married in fast food restaurants © McDonalds

You can get a degree in it
Thanks to KFC, UK restaurant managers can work towards a three-year "specifically designed" BA (Hons) Management degree, offered by Leicester's De Montfort University. Jan Worth, business development manager at the university, said in a statement: "This is the first time that De Montfort University has run a 'sponsored' degree programme that will link directly to KFC's apprenticeship scheme". The degree will be available from 2013.

Colonel Harland Sanders of KFC fame didn't serve in the military
Many people assume that Colonel Harland Sanders, who founded KFC, earned his title from military service. But this isn't the case. In 1936, six years after opening his first restaurant, he was made an honorary colonel by Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon for his services to Kentucky's