Lovely leftovers

If you’ve cooked too much, try to use the leftovers for another meal. To help, it might be worth keeping your fridge, freezer and cupboard stocked with basic food staples so you can rustle something up when you need to and use items up e.g. pasta, stock cubes, and bread.

Children don’t always like what they’re given so having a range of food items at hand to make different meals is important to satisfy their taste buds and keep them interested in what they are eating.

Simple Muffins

Use up wrinkled fruit with this easy and healthy treat. But if feeling naughty, chocolate can be used instead and is guaranteed to be a hit!

Banana Cake

Do your bananas often go brown before they are all eaten? Next time you find your bananas going past their best, why not use them to make this delicious banana cake?

Fruit Ripple

This tasty recipe is fantastic for using up any fruit that is going past its best, such as pears, kiwis, peaches, strawberries or pineapple.

Easy Amaretti Apples

Great for using up apples that may have gone slightly wrinkly in the fruit bowl! Serves 1 (or double ingredients for any extra persons)

Apple Fritters

A healthy, sweet treat for using up any leftover apples.

Fruit Bowl Muffins

A perfect recipe for using up soft fruits and great for experimenting!

Bread and Butter Pudding

A traditional and tasty way to use up leftover or slightly stale bread.

Love our Surrey chef

Carmela Tomkins is of Italian origin and lives in West Byfleet, Surrey. She owns her own catering business and believes that cooking should be fun, economical, quick, easy and appeal to adults and children alike. Over a number of years she has run cookery demonstrations in Surrey for charities and other organisations. She became involved in the "Love Food Hate Waste" campaign because she believes it is an important element of sustaining the environment. Find out more at www.carmelaskitchen.co.uk.

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