Bean Chilli Burritos
Combine reserved bean and chickpea chilli with fresh rice, then roll it into four warm burritos for a delicious second dinner.
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Recipes
Most meals are based on two portions. You can usually choose how many people you're feeding, and the ingredient quantities will increase or decrease accordingly. Baking and batch recipes keep the quantities stated in the recipe.
Macaroni Cheese
A familiar, creamy macaroni cheese made as a generous batch so 600 g can become a crisp-topped vegetable pasta bake.
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Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake
Turn macaroni cheese into a colourful second dinner with mixed vegetables and a crisp bread-and-Cheddar topping.
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Chicken & Vegetable Curry
A chicken curry with carrots, pepper and peas, cooked as a generous batch so some can become another dinner in jacket potatoes.
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Chicken & Vegetable Stir-fry
A fast chicken stir-fry that uses broccoli, pepper and carrot or other suitable vegetables that need using.
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Chickpea & Spinach Curry
A straightforward chickpea and tomato curry using familiar supermarket ingredients, with a little curry reserved for another meal.
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Chilli-loaded Potato Wedges
Turn the chilli deliberately reserved from Bean & Chickpea Chilli into a substantial tray of crisp loaded wedges.
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Classic Spaghetti Bolognese
A simple, reliable spaghetti bolognese is always a tummy pleaser. It’s easy to substitute the mince to make it vegetarian or vegan. This one is made with beef mince, tomatoes and plenty of vegetables. It’s an especially good dish to make extra of, because the sauce can become another meal the next day.
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Cottage Pie
Beef and vegetables under mashed potato, with extra filling reserved for loaded potatoes.
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Crispy Fishcakes
Turn the creamy fish filling reserved from Simple Fish Pie into six crisp fishcakes, served with peas for a distinct second dinner.
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Simple Fish Pie
A creamy white-fish and pea filling under fluffy mash, with enough cooked filling reserved for crispy fishcakes.
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Hummus, Egg & Tomato Toast
Hummus toast topped with sweet roasted tomatoes and freshly fried eggs for a quick, nutritious meal for two.
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Leftover Chicken Curry Jacket Potatoes
Turn a portion of reserved chicken curry into another filling dinner by spooning it over crisp, fluffy jacket potatoes.
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Lentil & Vegetable Soup
Turn the filling deliberately reserved from Vegetarian Cottage Pie into a substantial, chunky soup.
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Roast Chicken Dinner
A proper roast chicken dinner with crispy roast potatoes, stuffing, Yorkshire puddings, vegetables and gravy. A whole chicken gives you dinner tonight plus cooked chicken for another meal or two, amazing sandwiches over the next few days, or simply chicken and chips. Once you’ve picked the chicken, the carcass can go straight into Simple Chicken Stock.
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Roast Sweet Potato, Lentils & Hummus
Spiced roast sweet potato and ready-cooked lentils served over hummus with a crunchy lemon-dressed salad.
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Roasted Root & Lentil Soup with Crispy Kale
Turn the roasted vegetables and lentils reserved from dinner into a textured soup with crunchy kale.
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Sausage & Bean Casserole
A familiar sausage, bean and tomato casserole for two, served with mash and linked to a second dinner that can use the rest of a larger sausage pack.
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Sausage, Bean & Tomato Traybake
Sausages, potatoes, beans and vegetables cook together in a generous traybake with some held back for soup.
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Sausage & Tomato Pasta
Turn four sausages from a larger pack into a quick, rich tomato pasta that feels distinct from the casserole.
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Spiced Lentils & Roasted Root Vegetables
Ready-cooked lentils, kale and warmly spiced roasted roots make an easy vegetarian dinner, with part reserved for soup.
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Sweet Potato & Black Bean Hash with Fried Eggs
A smoky sweet potato and black bean hash topped with two fried eggs per person.
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Use-It-Up Vegetable Frittata
A flexible dinner formula for two using five eggs, about 250 g vegetables and Cheddar cheese.
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Bean & Chickpea Chilli
A straightforward two-bean chilli with rice, made generously so 500 g can be reserved for loaded wedges or burritos.
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Vegetarian Cottage Pie
A rich lentil and vegetable filling under buttery mashed potato, with half the filling deliberately reserved for Lentil & Vegetable Soup.
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