Love a Maccy D’s? This homemade take on the famous burger sauce recipe will have you shouting ‘I’m lovin’ it.’ What’s more you will likely have most of the ingredients in your store cupboard ready to rock, including those sauce bottles with just a little bit left.

Glamorgan sausage is a traditional Welsh vegetarian sausage for which the main ingredients are cheese, leeks and breadcrumbs. This is a great use for leftover bread.

A delicious and fragrant vegan Thai curry, amazing served with jasmine rice or noodles. This is an aromatic and flexible dish that is perfectly suited to being tuned to the time you have available and the ingredients you have available.

This simple midweek supper is a riff on a classic Italian dish for autumn, and perfect for giving your Halloween pumpkin another lease of life.

A delicious bread salad, and not just for Autumn (as in this recipe), sub in seasonal ingredients and drown your bread ends any time of the year.

This Tex-Mex classic gets reinvented with leftover pumpkin. A perfect Halloween dish that is filling and delicious as a Halloween dinner to enjoy with the family. They are fun to make—everyone can get involved.

When we think of pesto we often think of Pesto Genovese with basil, pine nuts, parmesan and garlic. But you can make pesto from many leafy greens, different nuts and seeds and a variety of hard cheeses. To help you find a home for seeds from your carved pumpkins, this is our delicious pumpkin seed pesto. It's not just thrifty, it's tasty and is an amazing food waste buster.

This Thai pumpkin soup is an easy autumn warmer. It's a great way to use up the flesh from carved pumpkins around Halloween. You can go as spicy as you like by changing the amount of Thai red curry paste you use. Use the toasted pumpkin seeds to garnish and make it extra special. You can also chuck in leftover veg (or meat) that needs using up.

There's no need to pithi(vier) the veg with this Leek and Smoked Cheese Pithivier recipe. Pithivier is a traditional circular puff pastry pie with a curved pattern cut into the pastry. If you want to, add leftover chopped up turkey or ham to the leek mixture. The pie can be made in advance up to the final baking stage and kept in the fridge. It would make a good vegetarian Christmas main course.