
FoodSavvy Recipes
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Feeling’ Fly Flapjacks
These flapjacks are the perfect waste busting, energy giving - sweet thing. They are flexible enough to include a range of ingredients depending on your tastes and what you have available. A delicious treat for a lunch box, long walk and picnic.
Chocolate and Walnut Brownies
These squidgy, moreish brownies have a delicious deep chocolate flavour and a little bite from the addition of walnuts. They are a great way of using leftover milk, which is one of the most wasted foods.
Sticky Lemon and Rosemary Polenta Cake
No flour? Or just keen to taste a fresh citrusy cake? Polenta and ground almonds make for a moist and delicate crumb, as well as making it a gluten-free cake. This lemon and rosemary cake uses the whole lemon (juice and zest) to make a zingy cake with a flavour combo that will leave you saying, ‘one more slice’.
Vegan Banana Bread
A delicious egg free banana bread recipe. This is a great way to use up those brown squidgy bananas and create a tasty treat for the family.
Build Your Own Pizza
Get ready to tear and share because tonight is pizza night. We’ve got everything you need to make a pizza base and delicious passata using leftover basil stalks. An amazing way to use herbs from the garden (or window box), and leftover veg to create some killer flavour combos.
Christmas Chutney
Chutnies are a great way to use up fruits (both dried and fresh) and vegetables. This delicious Christmas chutney uses a blend of warming spices to make the most of what is available at this time of year.
Rosemary and Lemon Shortbread
This shortbread is a great way to use up leftover rosemary and of course lemon zest before using the juice.
Chocolate Orange Truffle
Use live yogurt to make a healthier, probiotic chocolate. What could be better? Feel free to experiment with different flavour combinations and dairy or non-dairy yogurt. It is important to remember to let the chocolate cool slightly before adding the yogurt to avoid killing the live bacteria. These are perfect for gifting or snaffling on your own!
Spiced Berry Jam
This spiced berry jam works a treat on toast or with savoury dishes. Try serving it with a festive (nut)roast or offer it as the perfect gift for a cheese loving friend. It’s quick and easy to make. Enjoy!
Cauliflower Sweet Piccalilli
A delicious recipe for pickling vegetables in vinegar to preserve them. Perfect to give as a gift or for saving veg until you fancy eating something extra tasty. Most piccalilli recipes we’ve seen are missing a treat by not using the leaves and stem of the cauliflower. If you don’t have a certain vegetable think about the flavour and texture of it and then add in something you do have.
Tikka Masala
This delicious fakeaway tikka masala recipe can be made three ways with – chicken, paneer or chickpeas and cauliflower.
Ribollita
This hearty ribollita recipe from Tuscany is a triumph of humble Italian cooking. Made of stale bread and a mixture of vegetables, it is a delicious, nourishing soup that is more than the sum of its parts. The dish gets even better with reheating, so ensure you make plenty to enjoy the next day.
Hungarian Mushroom Soup
This recipe is a great way to use up spare milk and of course includes delicious mushrooms.
Chinese Curry
Our Chinese curry recipe is 100% plant based and we have paired it with marinated tofu to give an amazing texture to go with the flavour. This is a great one to use up leftover veg that is looking for a home. Go on try it – ‘Chinese curry!’
Yoghurt Fruit Ice Lollies
Did you know? 80,000 tonnes of yoghurt is wasted in the UK each year, this is a tragedy, particularly when you think about how many of these delicious ice lollies we could make with it. These lollies are a great way to save yoghurt and fruit for a later date. An amazing treat to whip out of the freezer for you and the kids at a family BBQ or garden picnic.

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