Foods and recipes
- Type: RecipesVegetarianEasyLeftover fruitCook with kidsUse up milk
These muffins are ideal for using up ripe bananas. You could also use other fruits that need using up, such as apples, cranberries, oranges, pears or even some tinned fruit!
Cook time: 20-30 minutes - Type: RecipesIntermediateMeals for freezing
These are flat flaky, palm-shaped little bites that can be made ahead of time and frozen. Even if the pastry is ready-rolled make sure you roll it out a bit thinner.
Cook time: 1 hour 30 minutes - Type: RecipesMeatIntermediate
A delicious spicy warming sweet and sour fruit mince pie, a great way to use up meat and leftover vegetables.
Cook time: 10-20 minutes - Type: RecipesVegetarianEgg freeEasyUse up milkUse up breadChristmas
A great way to use up extra bread, and easier than you might think!
Cook time: 30-45 minutes - Type: RecipesMeatEasyUse up breadCook with kidsChristmas
Here is a tasty mid-week family meal that uses up store cupboard ingredients and spices with extra meatballs to freeze for a second meal.
Cook time: 20-30 minutes - Type: RecipesEgg freeDairy freeNut freeEasyMeatChristmas
The mulled wine flavours in which the chicken is cooked smacks of winter, and is delicious served with a creamy leek mashed potato or baked potato or you could even serve it with couscous. Accompany with seasonal vegetables or braised red cabbage.
Cook time: 1 hour+ - Type: Foods
Bacon is salt-cured meat and can either be bought as rashers or a joint. It's used in a variety of meat dishes and is popular at breakfast too.
- Type: Foods
A key staple food in the UK, bread can be found freshly baked in local bakeries and in a range of other options in supermarkets too. Lots of varieties to choose from such as white, multigrain and wholemeal.
- Type: Foods
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk into fat and buttermilk. There is a wide variety of vegetable based spreads to choose from that are made from liquid vegetable oils and are high in polyunsaturated fat.
- Type: Foods
A popular fruit that has many health benefits and can be used in a variety of different ways from smoothies, to puds or simply eaten as it is, peeled.