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!

New recipes don’t always mean starting from scratch with a set of pristine ingredients. This delicious soup is a brilliant example of that - give it a go.

This famous dish from Ukraine is a popular family staple and a tasty way to revitalise chicken and use up any bread past its best.

This recipe includes a delicate apricot stuffing with a sweet cider sauce and it’s a great way to use up leftover bread.

Are your bread-end-crusts always forgotten at the bottom of the bread bag? Here’s a fun way to use them up before they go off!

The idea behind this dish is to help with waste of bread, rice and root vegetables and a must-make for anyone missing their favourite katsu curry restaurant (no names!).

These tasty fishcakes use pantry essentials like tinned tuna and sweetcorn for a Friday night dinner that's low cost but seriously satisfying!

These mini pizzas can be assembled and frozen ahead of time, so all you need to do is take them out of the freezer and cook on baking trays from frozen. You could cut rounds from a 30cm ready-made pizza base for a more authentic pizza. Any leftover bread, bag up and pop into the freezer to use later for breadcrumbs.

A great way to use up extra bread, and easier than you might think!

Comfort food at its best by award-winning chef Neil Forbes of Café St Honore in Edinburgh.