I found the thorough comparison of high-street meal deals informative (Meal deals: which UK shops are the best value for lunch?, 7 February), but as you are the leading publication covering climate change, I would have appreciated some insight on their ecological impact. Particularly appreciated would be strategies to avoid the obscene amounts of predominantly plastic packaging most of the options include.
Stuart Young
Middlesbrough
Last weekend my newsagent received no copies of the Guardian Saturday magazine, or the Feast supplement. Instead, the wholesaler sent extra copies of the Daily Mail Weekend magazine, which were delivered to customers as a substitute. I have tried to keep my composure through all the corrupt and insidious interferences in our lives by this government, but this is beyond the limit. I have also threatened to sue my newsagent.
Bob Horne
Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire
In Marian Keyes’ list of acclaimed Irish female writers (Marian Keyes: ‘Rehab was one of the happiest times of my life’, 5 February), there was no mention of Edna O’Brien, the greatest living Irish female writer whose books were banned and burned in Ireland in the 1960s. O’Brien paved the way for a new generation of Irish female writers.
Jacqueline Pooler
Frodsham, Cheshire
One very simple and delicious way with mushrooms (How to convert a mushroom hater, 8 February) is to put a small knob of butter into the cup of a button mushroom, and eat raw.
Dave Crook
Birmingham
