Marcus Rashford and Tom Kerridge create £10 Christmas dinner that will feed SIX – as Manchester United star reveals his mum Melanie often used food banks for family’s festive meal
- TV chef Kerridge, 48, and the Manchester United striker have created £10 turkey roll and roast veggie Christmas dinner that will feed six people
- Rashford revealed that his mum, Melanie Maynard, often relied on food banks to feed Marcus and his brother Sam for Christmas dinner when he was younger
- Pair showed people how to create the low-cost festive feast in an Instagram cook-a-long on Sunday morning
- Footballer received MBE, 24, for leading the fight against child poverty last year from Prince William at Windsor Castle in November
Manchester United star Marcus Rashford has joined forces with Tom Kerridge to create a Christmas dinner that will feed six people – with a leftover Boxing Day dish – for just £10.
TV chef Kerridge, 48, demonstrated how to prepare a turkey Christmas Day feast for just £10 using Healthy Start vouchers in a TV cook-a-long on Sunday morning.
Rashford and Kerridge’s Full Time Meals project shared the recipe for the cut-price festive dish that includes a turkey roll with stuffing and tray bake veggies.
The footballer, who received an MBE for leading the fight against child poverty last year from Prince William at Windsor Castle in November, said his own mother, Melanie had been forced to visit food banks over Christmas to feed her two sons.
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The Manchester United striker, 24, pictured in November with his mum Melanie Maynard, has teamed up with chef Tom Kerridge to create a £10 turkey roll and roast veggie Christmas dinner that will feed six people
Rashford told the Sun that his mum often relied on food banks to feed Marcus and his brother Sam for Christmas dinner when he was younger
Kerridge created the recipe for the two meals, which cost less than £10 if used with Rashford’s Healthy Start food vouchers
A Boxing Day recipe of potato and carrot hash with fried eggs uses leftovers. The two meals cost less than £10 if used with Rashford’s Healthy Start food vouchers – but only £12 to £13 if you haven’t got access to the voucher scheme.
Rashford told the Sun: ‘Mum often relied on the food bank for Christmas dinner. She was working three jobs. She was doing her best.
‘We didn’t have a lot but we had each other, and mum wanted to make sure we had a Christmas dinner on the table. We would go and pick it up on Christmas Eve.’
He said that there would be a ‘massive queue’ for the food but that it was ‘all prepped and ready to go’.
The footballer was recognised by the palace in November for his campaign last summer to ensure no child in need went hungry, which forced the Government into a U-turn over providing free school meal vouchers for 1.3million children during the summer holidays.
Leftovers from the cut-price Christmas dinner even includes a Boxing Day recipe of potato and carrot hash with egg (pictured)
Footballer received MBE, 24, for leading the fight against child poverty last year from Prince William at Windsor Castle in November
Following the MBE service at Windsor Castle in November, Rashford said: ‘I’m trying to give children the things I didn’t have when I was kid. If I did have, I would have been much better off and had many more options in my life.’
Speaking after the Windsor Castle investiture ceremony, the striker said he would be giving his MBE to his mother who raised him and his four brothers and sisters.
He said: ‘It seems like there’s a lot going on but for me to put it in the simplest way – I’m trying to give children the things I didn’t have when I was kid. If I did have, I would have been much better off and had many more options in my life.
‘I’m just giving them the opportunity and I think they deserve the opportunity what child doesn’t. For me, it’s a punishment for them not to be getting things like meals or supplies of books.
‘And if we can all come together to make these small change – they are small changes but they become big changes once you see the rewards of it – I see a generation that’s coming after me as a very special generation.’
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