A delicious white sauce recipe and a great way to use up leftover milk. Great as a sauce to go with vegetables or chicken, even better in a lasagne.

This is a kid (and adult) friendly pasta sauce. The perfect meal for after you've carved pumpkins for halloween and are wondering what to do with the carvings. Scarily easy, cheap and tasty.

This recipe is a great way to make the most of turkey pieces, leftover herbs and vegetables, and even spare sausages and bacon from those family fry-ups on Christmas morning and Boxing Day. It’s an easy recipe to do, especially if you buy in quality puff pastry, and a great way to clear out the fridge of cooked meat and surplus vegetables.

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.

This green pesto is a simple and tasty way to use up pumpkin seeds that are often wasted. You can add grated parmesan (or any other hard cheese) if you wish, but it is equally good without. This recipe is cheap to make using frozen peas. But you could use any variety of green vegetables like spinach or broccoli. If serving with pasta try adding halved cherry tomatoes just before serving.

The spice of the ginger plays off beautifully against the sweetness of the beetroot in this soup recipe. Best eaten in the winter when you need a tasty and thrifty pick-me-up.

This pie is a great way of using leftovers after a roast chicken dinner, as well as lots of delicious veggies the may need using up.

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?

Aromatic sage is used in Italian cooking with pasta dishes such as gnocchi and risotto. We have paired it with white beans in this delicious pasta. It is known as a ‘miracle herb,’ for its healing properties, Italians even used to use it to clean their teeth.

A great sauce that’s simple to whip up using store cupboard ingredients. This can be used as a base for lasagne, bolognese, pasta bake, chilli con carne or even curry. You can also blend up with a little stock for a delicious and easy tomato soup.

Just like the Colonel’s secret blend, Nando’s peri peri sauce is one of the most hotly debated recipes on the internet. Our fakeaway versions uses the whole lemon to reduce food waste and the flavour really bangs. Use this sauce to marinade leftover veg, chicken or fish, nom nom nom.

Love a Maccy D’s? This homemade take on the famous burger sauce recipe will have you shouting ‘I’m lovin’ it.’ What’s more you will likely have most of the ingredients in your store cupboard ready to rock, including those sauce bottles with just a little bit left.

Delicious pickled red cabbage, a great accompaniment to a ploughman’s or a Sunday roast. Also a great way to preserve leftover veg, to stop it going to waste.

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.

Pistou is a Provençal cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, basil and olive oil. It is similar to pesto, although it doesn’t include nuts, so it is smoother. It is classically added to soups of summer vegetables. 

A delicious and fragrant vegan Thai curry, amazing served with jasmine rice or noodles. This is an aromatic and flexible dish that is perfectly suited to being tuned to the time you have available and the ingredients you have available.

This simple midweek supper is a riff on a classic Italian dish for autumn, and perfect for giving your Halloween pumpkin another lease of life.

A delicious bread salad, and not just for Autumn (as in this recipe), sub in seasonal ingredients and drown your bread ends any time of the year.

This scrumptious pumpkin hummus would be great on a slice of chunky toasted bread for a snack or a light lunch. This recipe is perfect for using up surplus vegetables around Halloween that would otherwise go to waste.

This Tex-Mex classic gets reinvented with leftover pumpkin. A perfect Halloween dish that is filling and delicious as a Halloween dinner to enjoy with the family. They are fun to make—everyone can get involved.