Shazia Saleem used to dread the supermarket shop.
While many of her fellow student friends stacked their trollies with traditional readymade meals, her options as a Muslim were somewhat limited. Around a decade ago there was very little halal food available to buy in British supermarkets.
That gave her an idea: to start a readymade halal food business that produced the kind of dishes she grew up eating as a British Muslim, like shepherd’s pie and lasagna.
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Gillian Duncan