Did you know that banana peel is edible? Not many people do, because we’re just used to throwing it out.

If, like us, you’re bananas about bananas, try this recipe that uses the whole fruit with the peel.

Making your own oat milk is one of the cheapest ways to get dairy-free milk and with no need to soak oats overnight (as you do for almonds) it's also one of the quickest.

Knock this up at the weekend and enjoy delicious granola every morning, great with fresh fruit and yoghurt.

Egg fried rice is one of the nation’s favourite takeaway recipes. What’s more, it’s a perfect home for leftover rice, and odds and ends of lacklustre veg. It's an absolute food waste buster, what’s not to like?

Make a sourdough starter from scratch, then use it to bake a flavoursome loaf of bread with our simple step-by-step recipe.

These frittatas are made from the very versatile pulse, the chickpea. Chickpea flour is essentially dried, ground chickpeas—fancy that?

Use up whatever veg you have in your fridge and serve with a pesto or tomato-based dip. They can be made in advance and will keep in the fridge for about 5 days and they also freeze well.

Kedgeree combines the dual traditional British Friday night foods of fish and curry, and is so full of flavour that it works without the fish too. It is traditionally a breakfast dish, but is also great for lunch or dinner. What’s more, it’s a perfect home for leftover rice, and odds and ends of herbs and greens. What’s not to like?

This spread is so chocolatey and yummy. It can make a lovely present idea! Good news is, you can make a present to yourself as well…

Soda bread is a variety of quick bread traditionally made in a variety of cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate is used as a leavening agent instead of the traditional yeast.

Glamorgan sausage is a traditional Welsh vegetarian sausage for which the main ingredients are cheese, leeks and breadcrumbs. This is a great use for leftover bread.

Kefir is a drink made from milk which has been fermented with kefir grains. Kefir grains are a Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeasts (or SCOBY) and are used as a ‘starter’ to kick off the fermentation process, available in health food shops.

Kefir is packed with good bacteria, which helps fight off the bad bacteria in your gut and is good for digestion. You can try a vegan version, using a plant-based milk instead, but keep an eye on your grains as they will not stay active as long.

The drink originated around 2,000 years ago, and is thought to have hailed from the Caucasus. It is said to have been invented by shepherds roaming the Caucasus Mountains, who would carry milk around in their goat skin pouches in the sun all day. After a while, the milk had fermented slightly.

A probiotic (that means it’s full of good bacteria) soda that’s delicious on its own or used as an autumnal mocktail or cocktail mixer.