Author: Aysha Imtiaz

Freshly made and then flash frozen, Wednesday’s meal now arrives in freezer bags and insulated packaging. Barkham now sets aside £150 ($190) a month for his direct-debit delivery of meals and treats on Wednesdays, with food alone costing around £90 ($114) over four week. It’s a significant price hike, but Barkham says making room in the budget for a high-end meal that meets all of Wednesday’s — and his own — needs is worth it, even with including, “some small sacrifices such as fewer takeaways per month”. The biggest, he says, is that, “because we live in a small flat…