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It’s something we take for granted , the ability to go to any major supermarket and pick up enough food to tide you over until dinner, edible on the move, for a knockdown price.

I can hear a Frenchman somewhere hon-hon-honing about the fact that our food culture is so pitiful, we have convinced ourselves we actually like eating an overrefridgerated supermarket sandwich out of a cardboard box and calling it lunch.

Consider two people: one getting ready salted crisps, a BLT and a San Pellegrino, the other a spicy chicken pasta pot, the hard-boiled egg two-pack and a banana Yazoo.

Earlier this week, shoppers noticed that Sainsbury’s had, quietly but unmistakably, shaken the very foundations of the meal deal.

I bought their own-brand Greek yoghurt with a scattering of granola on top, sort of panicked in the face of having to choose a substantial savoury snack and went for the “trio of olives”, and finished off with a thick smoothie for added sustenance.

I mean, plainly, it is not one of life’s great injustices, to be deprived of the option to eat a sandwich as well as a yoghurt and wash it down with a fizzy drink, or a juice, for only £3.50.

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