Learn how to budget for meals with resourcefulcook.com

Here’s a clever new way to save money, take the stress out of meal planning and reduce food waste at the same time - The Resourceful Cook.

The beautifully illustrated website - resourcefulcook.com - provides meal ideas for up to seven days, showing exactly how long they take to make and the cost of ingredients. Each week there’s a huge range of options to suit different tastes, cooking abilities and budgets.

Choose a meal plan for seven days (or fewer), modify it to take account of your tastes and needs, and the site then generates an accurate shopping list only ever requiring fresh ingredients in amounts that match popular supermarkets’ pack sizes.

Now, either go shopping with list in hand or click straight through to one of the on-line supermarket delivery services. The Resourceful Cook currently has generates online shopping lists that link to both Asda and Tesco’s websites.

Finally, get cooking using the detailed recipe for each dish. Amazingly you won’t be left with unnecessary unused ingredients, thanks to the accuracy of the shopping list - and the inspiration of Hannah Wong.

“We’ve tried to be totally practical, letting people choose what kind of store cupboard ingredients they use: just the basics, a typical family store cupboard, or a cook’s store cupboard. We know that not everybody can afford the expense or space for a big store cupboard full of interesting and unusual ingredients,” says Hannah.

“This way, students and others on tight budgets can avoid recipes requiring pricier, more unusual ingredients while adventurous foodies can choose to work with a wider variety of ingredients, while still saving money.”