Cheese & spinach pasties

Teach your kids some pastry skills – and provide a lunchbox filler – with this recipe from CBeebies ‘i can cook’

Mushroom & spinach risotto

Make the time to stir carefully during cooking to make this vegetarian Italian rice pot super creamy

Nettle soup

Get your gloves on to forage for wild plants like nettles – once cooked they have a spinach or cabbage flavour

Orange, walnut & stilton salad

This light, sweet and salty salad with crumbled blue cheese makes a great no cook midweek supper with crusty bread

Lemon-spiced chicken with chickpeas

A spicy, filling one pot that has a bit of added zing. Make it a mid-week must

Fiorentina baked pasta

A quick and creamy pasta bake that can be reheated for lunch the next day – if you manage to have any left!

Pasta with garlicky greens

This comforting vegetarian recipe is the perfect dish to warm yourself up on a cold winter night

Spicy salmon & lentils

This dish is easy to cook but still packed full of flavour.

Baked salmon & aubergine cannelloni

Oven-cooked pasta dishes are perfect for an informal meal with friends, especially when you can freeze it ahead

Warm roasted squash and Puy lentil salad

This fresh and vibrant salad makes use of tinned lentils, a store cupboard staple. The result is filling, low-fat and contains all of your five-a-day

Chickpea, tomato & spinach curry

A superhealthy, vegan curry that accounts for 2 of your 5-a-day and is low in calories to boot!

Spiced vegetable pilaf

Get four of your five-a-day in one colourful bowl. Vary the veg according to what’s in season