Precook chicken breast, slice thinly, smear with pesto and wrap in bacon. Grill.

Coat small chicken pieces in spices of your choice, we used a premixed Cajun spice mix. Bake in the oven with olive oil, until cooked.

When you have the oven on for other things, pop in a few whole potatoes and cook them until they are cooked and the skin is crispy. Allow to cool, spoon out the potato and refill with whatever, beans, mince, fish you have on hand. Mash the potatoes and spoon on the top.

Egg, smoked salmon and chopped spinach whisked together, then cooked in a metal round, in a fry pan.

Bake the salmon in the oven with honey, pepper, oregano, olive oil and smoked paprika. Pan fry vegetables of your choice with passata sauce, oregano, garlic, smoked paprika and salt and pepper. Serve with rice or similar.

Layer vegetables in a dish, pour garlic butter over them, top with grated Parmesan cheese and bacon, if desired. Bake in the oven, until cooked.

Chicken Satay and salad wrapped in a lettuce wrap

In the slow cooker bang broth, chicken drumsticks, onions, garlic and tikka masala curry paste/powder. Cook for 8 to 12 hours. Add coconut cream and vegetables, serve with rice or roti.

Bake precooked or tinned and drained lentils on an oven tray with curry powder and olive oil. Cook until they are crunchy, like chips and eat as a dried snack.

Easier than getting Takeaways! A packet of hot smoked salmon, a bag of salad, add some chopped fruit, salad dressing, aioli and sauerkraut. Instant food!

Different coloured veggies, fresh salmon pan fried and aioli

Simply cover diced chicken with sesame seeds, flour, herbs and spices of your choice. pan fry. Serve with blanched Broccoli.

Simply pan fry diced sausages and mix with roast vegetables. I used a honey ginger glaze on the vegetables for flavour.

Bake chicken breast in passata sauce, garlic, onions, tomatoes, capsicum, oregano, tarragon and chili. Slice and serve with vegetables.

Simply pan fry Halloumi cheese in olive oil and herbs. Add seasonal greens and serve.

Simply grate vegetables of your choice (I used potato, kumara, pumpkin, silverbeet, courgette, garlic and eggplant), grated cheese and egg. Mix well. Pan fry until cooked.

Pan fried silverbeet with garlic, red onion and topped with cherry tomatoes. Scrambled eggs on sourdough.

Lima beans cooked with red curry paste, lime juice, coconut cream, silver beet, grated courgette, capsicum and spring onions

Haricot beans, cooked with grated eggplant, grated courgette, tomatoes and Italian spices.

Pan fried Tuna, with purple cabbage, pear, spring onion and kiwifruit

Prawns cooked in butter and garlic and served with a green salad

Leftover Roast beef cooked with frozen veggies, sesame oil, ginger and garlic and served with rice.

Whisk eggs, milk, cheese if you want and whatever vegetables you have on hand (We used spinach, garlic and cherry tomatoes). Add your choice of bacon, smoked salmon, herbs, dry mustard or nutritional yeast for flavour. Top with cheese. Grill until cooked.

Courgette zoodles, onion and tomato cooked in a creamy blue cheese

Baked potatoes sliced in half and stuffed with whatever you fancy, here we have sausage, parsley, passata sauce, garlic, onions, cheese and spinach

Pan fried Salmon, with stir fried veggies and ruby sauerkraut

Chopped sausages with salad and guacamole (mashed avo with lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper)

Left over Roast beef tossed in with salad

Whizz until creamy: avocado, banana, cocoa powder, coconut cream and LSA

Roast Beef with roast potatoes, kumara, pumpkin, whole cauliflower covered with bacon and garlic and pan fried green veggies cooked in garlic and butter