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"This fruit and veg man will always hold a special place in my heart. It's time to look forward, and I'm incredibly excited for what the future holds," he added.

I cooked up a bunch of beans in the pressure cooker while the veg were sweating and in 20 minutes, we had the most nourishing lunch.

Lidl has been freshening up the look of its stores, putting bakeries at the entrances and displaying more fruit and veg.

For the first few years the shop, named after Alan’s father Albert Edward Hartley, simply sold fruit and veg.

They included five-a-day campaigns to promote eating fruit and veg, food labelling to highlight calorie content, restrictions on advertising unhealthy food to children and voluntary agreements with manufacturers to reformulate foods.