
Storecupboard recipes
Get the most out of your storecupboard staples in our delicious dinners, bakes and snacks. These simple, affordable recipes use everything from tinned tomatoes to flour and sugar.
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Yummy golden syrup flapjacks
Bake these 4-ingredient flapjacks – they're easy to make and ready in half an hour. Add chocolate drops, desiccated coconut or sultanas, if you like
Greek-style beans
Rustle up a butter bean, tomato and feta stew for a quick and healthy midweek meal. Enjoy with toasted sourdough on the side to mop up all the sauce
5-minute mocha pots
This dreamy dessert is ready in under 10 minutes. Use milk chocolate if you're feeding young children
Pesto & tomato pasta with crispy crumbs
This simple yet special storecupboard supper will save the day if you need to rustle something up with a moment's notice
Easy caramel cake
Need to make a celebration cake at short notice? This foolproof, showstopping caramel cake uses storecupboard ingredients and is quick to whip up
Creamy pesto & kale pasta
Enjoy our creamy pesto and kale pasta as a tasty and nutritious supper. Make it with just a handful of ingredients and storecupboard staples
Muffin tin chilli pots
This speedy tortilla supper counts as 3 of your 5 a day and needs just four ingredients. It doesn't get much easier than this veggie storecupboard meal
Easy brownies
A gooey and delicious treat, these brownies are so easy to make. Try the rich chocolate topping for an even more decadent bake
Chickpea curry
This easy chickpea curry, created by reader Jon Gregg, is a vegan recipe that's three of your five-a-day. It works well as a main course or a simple side dish
Storecupboard pasta salad
This pasta salad makes a quick and healthy lunch, or is perfect prepared ahead for a picnic or lunchbox
Easy rocky road
Great for a bake sale, a gift, or simply an afternoon treat to enjoy with a cuppa, this rocky road is quick to make and uses mainly storecupboard ingredients.
Green baked eggs
Make a batch of spiced lentils, then use it as a base for three more meals, including these green baked eggs. Serve with crusty bread or toasted flatbreads
Raid-the-storecupboard side
This healthy side dish, packed with artichokes and beans, works well with salmon or grilled pork
Coconut, curry leaf & turmeric saucy lentils
Raid your spice cupboard to make our lentil dish which can be used as a base to make three other meals – use puy or green lentils as they hold their shape
Real tomato soup
Creamy tomato soup is the stuff of childhood, and it's easy to make yourself. Emma Lewis shows you how
Sweetcorn pancakes
These easy, storecupboard sweetcorn pancakes are great for a late or weekend breakfast, or even an after school snack
Lemon drizzle cake
It's difficult not to demolish this classic lemon drizzle in just one sitting, so why not make two at once?
Storecupboard tuna bean salad
Use up some of those storecupboard leftovers in this delicious salad
Tuna & sundried tomato pasta bake
An easy storecupboard supper, that can be out of the oven and on the dinner table in 25 minutes
Tuna pasta bake
Whip up this cheap treat using storecupboard ingredients, tinned tuna and sweetcorn
Cheat's chilli prawn noodles
Versatile, low in fat, and made from storecupboard stables, customise these spicy noodly according to taste - or convenience
App onlyCurried bean stew with coconut & coriander drizzle.
Make the most of a pantry staple – butter beans – in this hearty and fragrant stew. They are filling, packed with protein and low-cost, too
App-onlyOne-pan smoky veggie lentil lasagne.
Make this comforting no-bake lasagne and you’ll pack in lots of nutritious veggies, building up to 30 plant points for the week. The courgettes and mushrooms can be swapped out for other seasonal veg – leeks and aubergines work well.
Storecupboard spaghetti puttanesca
An easy spaghetti for all the family that requires little or no shopping





























