Hi Another way of making good use of foods to minimise waste and effort and maximise taste and variety is to try some ‘Chain cooking’ I used to teach this to my students going away to university. Don’t buy expensive chicken breasts. Buy one or two fresh chickens (depending on the size of your family), use the breasts for your fancy meal, chicken legs for a midweek meal, make a casserole with the other larger chicken pieces e.g wings, or risotto with the odds and ends and soup with the carcase. Simple, it’s also great for your purse. Do the same with minced beef. Cook it with onions first, then divide the mixture up, add carrots to one portion tomatoes to another and then beans, herbs and spices to make shepherd’s pie, chilli con Carne, spaghetti bolognese and so on until you run out of ideas. You only make a mess in the kitchen once and you have meals for the fridge and the freezer