Reviving tips

Some foods, that you might have earmarked for the bin, can be revived and given a new lease of life. Read on and please tell us your ideas too.

• Cheap and healthy batch cooking

  Submitted by Gemma Parnell, Bedfordshire

  Bulk up meals like pasta bakes, curry and chilli con carne with beans, pulses vegetables and potatoes. It's cheaper healthier and it means you can use up the rest of the vegetables in the fridge! I always make at least one extra portion to freeze when cooking, and I make food for my baby at the same time.

• strawberry crumble

  Submitted by Vanessa, Corby

  To use up excess strawberries, raspberries or blackberries, freeze on a flat baking tray, when frozen bag up and store until needed. Put frozen berries, or a combination of berries in an ovenproof bowl, cover with a thick layer of crumble topping and bake as usual. A touch of summer in deepest darkest winter, yum yum x

• Pudding from pasta

  Submitted by Beryl Bradford, Milton Keynes

  Cooked too much pasta? Why not use left over pasta to make a delious pud? Place cooked pasta in a greased oven dish, beat 2 eggs well, add double cream and strawberry jam and pour evenly onto the pasta. Place in the oven on 180deg for 40 minutes then under a hot grill for a few minutes until golden brown. Serve with ice cream of whipped cream. Yummy!

• Limp carrots

  Submitted by Judi Haire, Malaga

  Use them to make carrot cake....or muffins

• Bagged Salads

  Submitted by Danni van der Walt, Bristol

  If you transfer your bagged salad leaves into a airtight container that is lined with kitchen roll this will help remove the excess moisure. Your salad with be crisp and dry and it will extents the life of the salad enormously.

• Moist rice!!!!!

  Submitted by Fauziya and family, liverpool

  When you have cooked rice, make sure you add more water in to make your rice moist to go in the fridge or freezer for the next day.

• best before dates!!

  Submitted by amanda, ashford kent

  i often buy veggies that are at their prime and are marked down,i get home and decant into smaller bags,freeze them,and then when i cook my roast,chuck the veggies at the bottom. That way we get beautiful roasted veggies at a fraction of their price!!!

• Microwave stale chocolate cake

  Submitted by Helen Johnston, London

  Microwave stale chocolate cake, about 20 seconds for a slice, and it'll become gorgeous gooey hot chocolate fudge cake. This may also work with other types of cake.