Meals for two

Smoked mackerel is a handy fridge standby, as it’s already cooked, making this recipe even easier. Paired with good-for-you greens and a zingy dressing, it’s a superfood salad, ready in under 30 minutes

Think of this as a fresher, healthier take on a meal on toast. Easy to eat with your hands, it’s perfect summer fare for sitting outside and mulling over another busy day

Spaghetti alla puttanesca is a pasta dish from mid-20th-century Naples using a variety of storecupboard ingredients. We’ve taken all those flavours and created a fresh salsa to sit atop baked salmon and a puddle of polenta

Using a mixture of tinned and fresh ingredients, this plant-based curry counts towards your 5-a-day

Naturally creamy and slightly bitter in flavour, walnuts are the wrinkly, brain-like fruit of the walnut tree and a versatile storecupboard ingredient in both sweet and savoury cooking. Here, they contrast sweet leeks in a creamy blue cheese sauce for pasta – a quick and comforting dish for a cold winter night

Recipes with minimal ingredients get a great boost from miso, which lends lots of flavour with minimum effort here

Peas not only lend colour and sweetness to this soup – when roasted with spices, they add texture as a crunchy garnish too

This quick Italian-inspired dish uses a cheat ingredient for a result that tastes like it’s been simmering on the stove for hours