Shopper picks up nine legs of yellow-sticker lamb for £36

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Having a keen eye for a bargain can save you a fortune, especially when it comes to buying meat.

But one Sainsbury’s shopper who bought nine legs of lamb worth £252 for a yellow sticker price of just £36 very much divided opinion on social media.

A picture posted on Facebook group Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK shows the large packs of meat lined up in a trolley next to a pot of olives and some fresh mint.

Alwyn Smith shared it alongside the caption: ‘Mate had a good deal at Sainsburys today.’

With prices of some household staples almost tripling in two years, stockpiling can only be expected in some households.

According to Statista, the inflation rate for food prices in the UK was measured at 10.1% in October this year.

This has resulted in consumers shifting their shopping behaviours, even changing supermarkets depending on discounts.

After tracking 21,000 products across eight major brands in the last two years, consumer watchdog Which? found that one of the worst examples of price inflation was Mr Kipling Bakewell Cake Slices x6 at Sainsbury’s, which swelled in price by 175%, from £1 to £2.75.