Forget smoothies: there's a better way to get your fruit. Simple ideas that turn frozen bananas into instant ice-cream, peaches into ready-made bellini blocks, cherries into a chewy snack and spice up your grapes

Alcoholic ice lollies and ice-cream will be having a moment this summer, not least because some clever engineering students have cracked how to freeze booze properly but it's fun to make your own, too.

Marzipan fatigue? Transform that icing into toasted ice-cream and break up your egg shells for a salted chocolate fudge sauce.

With potential savings of over £1,000 a year, making packed lunches makes a lot of sense. So why dont more of us do it? We ask some foodies what they would put in their own lunch boxes.

The chip is such a success story of the modern world that attempts to reinvent it are constant. But can cassava, plantain or chickpeas really replace the mighty spud?