From fresh bread to easy pasta sauce, swapping just a few ready-made products for homemade alternatives can knock pounds off your weekly shop. Most of these recipes are made using storecupboard ingredients, so they’re quick to make at home, and also help you reduce your plastic waste and cut down on your consumption of ready-made foods.
Sauces
A jar of pasta sauce can come in handy if you’re short on time, but with the right ingredients, you can make a homemade version in the time it takes to cook the pasta. Tomato sauce is a great base – swirl it through cooked spaghetti and you’ll have dinner on the table in 15 minutes. It can be used in a multitude of other ways, too: add olives, capers and parsley for a puttanesca-style sauce or chillies for an arrabbiata; mix with mascarpone, cooked chicken and
