Sometimes I think it is easier to make food stretch through the Winter months rather than Summer months with the stew or casserole based dishes. Ideally I would like salads all the time but salad vegetables can be pretty expensive in the supermarkets. It would probably be more economical to buy fruit and veg from a greengrocer and probably the same for meat from a proper butcher rather than packaged cuts of meat. These days the old grocer and butcher shops are hard to find locally so really it's just putting up with what we have got. When I do go into a supermarket I try to keep to my list and only buy what I and whoever is with me can manage to carry, so I have to make sure that I don't buy anything out of the ordinary.

Eggs are very versatile and I found an oven baked omelette recipe with onion, herbs and about a cup or so of frozen mixed veg which can be handy to throw in especially if the amount left in the freezer is not quite enough to serve as a portion of vegetables for each person. It doesn't mess up the top of the oven and wedges of omelette can be cut and served with salad or anything you like.