We taste tested eight pigs in blankets - and learned not to be sucked in by fancy packaging

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

If there's one thing we love in our house it's sausages. That's why it didn't come as a huge surprise for Manchester Family to be chosen as the M.E.N's chief pigs in blankets taste testers this year.

My 10-year-old - whose insides are probably 90 pr cent sausage already - was probably more excited than me at the prospect of it, as was Milo the ever-hungry labrador once he got a sniff.

Getting the porky little things was a mission in itself - with some retailers not yet having them in stock and others already selling out. Read more: "I went to Lidl and bought the same shopping I bought four months ago, this is how much more it cost me" We managed to get our hands on nine altogether - although you could say it's not really fair to count