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The supermarket meal deal is fine. It is also £4 and a bit of sadness in a plastic triangle. Here are five lunches built from leftovers and supermarket produce finds, each with an honest taste note and a rough cost per portion.
The smallest tin in the cupboard, the one that sits behind the sweetcorn and gets bought once every eighteen months. A short defence of anchovies as a working ingredient rather than a dare — with brand notes, a twenty-minute pasta and a lamb shoulder that would be duller without them.
We poured, sniffed and slurped our way through six supermarket gravies before the 2026 Sunday-roast season gets serious. Here are the honest Harris Kitchen taste notes — texture, seasoning, savouriness and value — plus the one carton we would actually put on the table.
A shelf of cookbooks, a drawer of gadgets, and the one thing that genuinely sharpened my seasoning, sourcing and instincts cost about the price of a coffee. Here is how a flavour diary works, why it matters, and two real entries — warts, crystals and all.