Make-ahead meals

You simply can't have a proper picnic without potato salad. It's the law. Try this classic recipe.

To make these chocolate covered strawberries for an elegant Valentine's Day treat, you only need three ingredients.

You cannot kill this dough, no matter what you do. We know. We tried. Roll it and re-roll it and these sugar cookies still turs out fine and dandy.

Stir up a batch of Practically Instant Oatmeal Mix, and keep it on hand to make, well, practically instant oatmeal. It's a great, cheap, tasty alternative to the overly sweetened, artificially flavoured oatmeal that comes in individual packets.