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Credit crustacean ; Shellfish sales soar as we treat ourselves at home rather than eat out at restaurants

THEY are the credit crunch crustacea.

Londoners baulking at the cost of eating out are buying ever more sophisticated food from supermarkets to treat themselves at home and shellfish are top of the shopping list.

Waitrose today revealed that its sales of shellfish are up 31 per cent and seafood generally by 25 per cent on last year.

The boom is seen as part of a trend towards so called "scratch cooking" preparing meals from raw ingredients at home rather than just heating up a ready meal that has accelerated as the crunch has bitten into household budgets.

All sales at Waitrose supermarkets were up three per cent last week.

"Restaurant-style" starters and appetisers such as mackerel ...

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