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Our tips for Courgettes

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.
Great soup from fridge oddments

Submitted by Merryl Cook, Heaton Moor, Stockport

Gather up all the bits from your fridge - coarse outside lettuce leaves, that bendy carrot, bit of onion, green tops of leeks and spring onions, a few herbs, etc, etc. Put in a pan with water to cover and a stock cube or meat jelly or gravy if you have some leftover and boil until the veg are soft. Whizz in processor or liquidiser. The French call this 'Garbure' and it's almost always delicious and different each time. Can be thickened with leftover potato, or some small pasta shapes can be added, or a cooked chopped bacon rasher. Soy sauce and a slowly poured beaten egg will make it Chinese-ish. Curry paste,and garlic, or grated cheese, or mushroom ketchup ... almost any mixture you invent will taste better than a tin of soup, and it's practically cash- and additive-free!
Turn your leftover veg into a healthy soup

Submitted by Anonymous,

Use up left over veg to make a healthy & tasty soup - lovely weekend lunch with crusty bread. Any veg - the more the better, plus herbs, seasoning (tin of chopped tomatoes add colour & flavour). When cooked mash for chunky soup or liquidise for smooth. The options are endless - have never had a bad one & the kids love it!
Making mince go further

Submitted by Gina, Sydney, Australia

When making bolognese sauce or Shepherd's pie, I usually add a finely grated carrot and a finely grated courgette to the mix at the same time as the mince - this bulks it out considerably and you can't taste it. It's also a pain-free method of increasing vegetable intake.
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!!!