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It is cheaper to cook chickpeas from scratch than buy tinned

  Cooking organic chickpeas from scratch costs less per 100g than buying non organic chickpeas in a tin, unless they are on special offer, in which case you save a few pence. We eat a lot of chickpeas. They go in curries, soups, with rice, pasta and mashed up to make falafels and hummus. Leftover curried chickpeas make fantastic pastie …

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Less waste – An A-Z of leftover food ideas.

In a nutshell – in the spirit of less waste the less-stuff Facebook group came up with lots of ideas for using up lefovers. They vary from vegan to meaty but can all be adapted to suit what you have.  My plan for using up leftovers is usually heavily reliant on having a blender. I’ve a stick blender which can …