A washout spring saw the nation swap warming soup for prepared salads at supermarket check-outs.

Sales of prepared salad dipped by 11 percent in the past month while the figure for soups was up by 24 percent, according to research from retail analysts Kantar.

The organisation said food price inflation has fallen to 2.1 percent according to its data with almost one third of big selling products, such as milk and butter, now showing falls.

And Kantar said it is confident that sales for both