Would you love your teen to know their way around their own kitchen and take their cookery skills from zero to hero in 13 short weeks? Then enrol them on one of Lorna’s start-when-you-want online DofE cookery courses all done via WhatsApp with one-to-one feedback.

The Plant-Based Course is for anyone who’s a flexitarian, a vegetarian, a vegan or sometimes wants to swap plant-based foods for meat, fish or dairy. Suitable for DofE and Off-to-Uni students, it’ll teach you how to make everyday meals that are simple, economical and nutritious, and the tried-and-tested recipes are super-flexible, with swap-in/swap-out ingredients.

Each one uses familiar store-cupboard, fridge or freezer staples – whether that’s a tin of nourishing lentils, a jar of crunchy peanut butter, or some long-lasting root or frozen vegetables – so nothing goes to waste. You’ll also learn how to tweak a plant-based recipe to make it suitable for a meat-eater.

Apart from learning key kitchen skills, the topics of safety, food hygiene, using seasonal and sustainable ingredients, energy-efficient cooking and reducing food wastage and one’s carbon-footprint in the kitchen are all covered too.

All the recipes are for one person.