How to find cooking and baking inspiration

What you need 

• a PC, Mac, tablet or smartphone  

• access to wifi  

• pens and a notebook 

• food storage containers 

 Top tips  

1Consider food delivery

Getting a delivery could save you a trip to the supermarket and support local businesses. 

You can: 

• look for local delivery services in your area from independent stores  

• get same day delivery on your shop with Co-op Delivery (only available in selected areas) or via Co-op on Deliveroo  

2Think about how you store food

To make food last longer you can think about how it is stored. You could:  

• freeze food to cut down on waste  

• see where‘s best to store each food so that it lasts longer  

• see alternative options for food storage when you're low on refrigerator space 

3Grow your own

You might want to try growing your own food. You can:  

• regrow some vegetables indoors with just water and sunlight 

• grow your own food with advice from the Royal Horticultural Society

4Check out recipes

These recipes might give you some inspiration: 

‘Finding inspiration’ recipes 

• from Co-op recipes 

• for Asian dishes, try Sanaas recipes 

Budget recipes 

• Cooking on a Bootstrap with Jack Monroe 

• recipes from a Foodbank cookbook 

• Skint Dad share their 20 favourite budget recipes 

Batch cooking recipes 

• BBC Food's section on batch cooking  

• big batch recipes on Bon Appetit 

• The Gousto Blog has vegetarian, vegan and meat batch dishes 

Store cupboard recipes

• Good Housekeeping recipes 

Healthy recipes 

• try these healthy recipes and snacks from NHS Change4Life 

Baking recipes 

• mug cakes allow you to make a sweet treat for one 

• try these 3-ingredient easy bakes  

5Learn how to cook and bake

There are plenty of cookery classes that will help:  

• BreadAHead are teaching us how to make bread 

• if you are keen to bake, check out The Big Bakes tutorials 

6Ask for help

If you need help getting food or paying for food there is help available:  

• find food groups in your area

• Co-op offer a home delivery service

• Access to Healthy Start are offering food vouchers 

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