Copycat recipe collections, grouped by occasion and method
Recipes grouped for a reason.
Not filtered lists. Each of these is a set of recipes that belong together because of how you would actually cook them - One evening’s worth, one shopping trip, or one technique learned once and used six times.
Start Here: Five Recipes for Your First Fortnight
Five recipes that between them teach every technique on this site, cost under £8 in total and take under two hours of actual work.
Sauces You Can Make in Ten Minutes
Nine cold sauces that need no cooking at all. Most take under ten minutes of work and cost about a pound a jar.
A Full Takeaway Night for Four
Burgers, chips, wings and a dip, plus something frozen for pudding. About £11 for four against roughly £55 delivered.
The Sunday Batch Cook - copycat recipes worth batching
Five recipes that freeze properly, cooked in one session, that fill a freezer drawer with about twenty meals for under £25.
The Coffee Shop at Home - copycat coffee recipes
Two syrups, a sauce and four drinks. The kit costs about £40 and pays for itself in twelve days.
Friday Night Fried Chicken
A full fried chicken dinner for four - chicken, gravy, mash and slaw - for about £9 against £34 at the counter.
No-Cook Copycat Recipes - nothing on the hob at all
For a hot kitchen, a broken cooker, or a student room with a kettle and a fridge. No heat required at any point.
Breakfast Worth Getting Up For
Muffins, hash browns, biscuits, doughnuts and coffee. The largest per-item saving on this site for anybody who buys breakfast on the way to work.