Perfect as a light starter before a rich Christmas dinner, smoked salmon is readily available in small packets meaning you can ensure you don’t buy more than you need.

Grain-based salads are filling and nutritious, and work really well with fresh fruit, which adds colour, texture and taste.

This is a good recipe for using up odds and ends from the fridge, you could top the corn chips with leftover cooked sausage and great for using up any leftover cheese.

An easy, deliciously chocolatey way to save that leftover Christmas pudding from the bin by Scotland's National Chef, Gary Maclean.

Making Banana Bread is a popular way to use up leftover bananas, but if you've also got half a jar of peanut butter in the cupboard you can take this classic bake to the next level!

This Tuna Pasta dish is great for dinner time and utilises dried pasta, tinned tuna and chopped tomatoes.

Make the most of your potatoes and create this amazing Patatas Bravas with a UK twist dish invented by Albert Bartlett.

Bruschetta is a great way of using up items from your fridge, use a variety of leftover cheese, cooked meats, tomatoes and beans, basically anything goes!

Pretty much anything that’s close to its use-by date can be transformed under the guise of a Spanish omelette. You can include cooked potatoes, cooked vegetables such as peas, leeks, carrots, courgettes, onions etc, that last rasher of bacon and cheese that’s going hard around the edges.

This recipe is great for when you find those stale slices of bread left at the end of the loaf.