Recipes can easily be adapted to include your favourite dried fruit, nuts and seeds, and you could also add a drizzle of melted dark chocolate or yogurt over the top.
There's no need to get rid of stale bread – make homemade salad croutons which are much nicer and tastier than ready-made alternatives anyway.
It's hard to resist warm, buttery garlic bread and we think it's best with a little homemade magic. Make sure you add enough garlic and a generous sprinkling of salt to your butter
Skip the preservative-laden caramel sauces from the supermarket and make it yourself – it's guaranteed to taste much better.
Generally, making your own salad dressing doesn't take more than a couple of minutes and will taste much better than the ready-made alternatives filled with additives and stabilisers.
Nutella and other jarred nut spreads are not only extremely loaded with sugar, many are also made with palm oil which is bad for the environment.
If you're able to lie down for 20 minutes in the afternoon, a small-scale study shows a caffeine nap can make a big difference to your alertness
Whipped cream is probably the easiest thing to make at home, rather than buying a pressurised can. Just remember, the cream should contain enough fat to whip